By Lamin Njie
The Janneh commission generated 77 million dalasis from assets it seized from former president Yahya Jammeh and sold off, the minister of justice Abubacarr Tambadou has said.
The Janneh commission is a 2017 investigation into the financial, assets and business dealings of former president Yahya Jammeh and during its 18-month work, the probe confiscated hundreds of assets ranging from cars to tractors to cattle belonging to the former president.
The commission’s officials had said the assets recovered will be sold off and proceeds paid to the treasury.
Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou told Gambian lawmakers at the National Assembly on Tuesday the inquiry generated 77 million dalasis from its assets sale.
“In the course of its work, the commission was able to generate monies from its activities including 67,894,170 dalasis from the sale of 138 tractors and 458 vehicles (including scrap), 8,302,970 dalasis from the sale of 725 herd of cattle as well as bank accounts frozen and/or discovered by the commission and other properties discovered as a result of their work,” Tambadou said.
