President Adama Barrow has appointed Seedy Keita as his new trade minister – after he fired Lamin Jobe – and after the man he first offered the job turned it down.
The president had in September offered former Central Bank governor Bakary Jammeh the job but he astonishingly turned it down.
The president has now hired a new man in Seedy Keita and according to State House, Keita holds a double Masters degree in Business Administration and Financial Management from Edinburgh Business School, Herriot-Watt University.
He recently had a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Strategy from – Said Business School, the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, State House said of his educational background.
State House added: “Mr Keita, until his appointment as Minister, was Director Finance Department at the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector in Jeddah from 2011 to date. He first joined the Corporation in 1999 as a Young Professional Core Team Member and rose through the ranks.
“In The Gambia, Mr Keita worked at the Accountant General’s Department and The Gambia Civil Aviation Authority, where he held various positions to the level of Chief Accountant before he left for a World Bank-funded Health Project in 1998.”
