Former president Yahya Jammeh’s brother Ansumana Jammeh has died aged 45, family sources have told The Fatu Network.
The younger Jammeh died at Afrimed clinic a short while ago, the sources said.
Jammeh died on Saturday at Afrimed clinic at 11pm after being admitted to the facility over high blood pressure. Family sources said he died of disease.
Opposition APRC in an announcement said burial rites will be held on Sunday 23 August 2020 at 11:00am ‘possibly at Kanilai’.
“Whoever wants to make it to Kanilai to attend the funeral rites can be on standby whilst we await confirmation,” the party said through its deputy spokesperson.
Mr Jammeh’s death comes less than two months after the appellate court denied his stay of execution prayer over his properties.
The Janneh commission had investigated him and agreed that a 2016 high court order against him be implemented; it meant he would lose his properties in Bijilo and Old Yundum. He was also fined over 24 million dalasis.
Last month, the Appeals Court dismissed his application for a stay of execution over his properties which effectively left the properties at the mercy of the state.
