We reject the rejection of the Barrow Administration in regards to the Commission’s recommendations against Alhaji Ousman Ceesay and Mambury Njie.
The very move to retain Ceesay as protocol officer and rehire Mambury Njie as Finance Minister- both implicated one way or the other in the wanton misappropriation of public funds while serving in the same capacities under criminal Yahya Jammeh – was a prelude to the President’s contemptuous approach to the Commission even before it finished its investigation.
As citizens, we demand and expect nothing less than highest level of integrity and honorable conduct from everyone serving in public administration. Mambury Njie and Alhajie Ousman Ceesay have conducted themselves in ways that may be bordering on criminal negligence and complicity and have lost the trust and confidence of the Public.
Thus, If they cannot face civil or criminal indictments, at the very minimum their services should be terminated. Maintaining them or shielding them from responsibility is the height of insult and disrespect to the ordinary Gambian people, to the Janneh Commission Members and to the general civil servants.
We call for full and complete implementation of the commission’s recommendations without delay or selection!
The writer, Zakaria Kemo Konteh, is based in the United States
