Africa-Press – Gambia. Alieu Njie, the Secretary to Cabinet at the Office of the President, has issued a formal apology to the National Assembly Committee investigating the sale of former President Yahya Jammeh’s assets for initially failing to provide requested documentation.
Mr. Njie first appeared before the committee last week, where he claimed that the relevant records were unavailable because they were part of a “closed file.” He also stated in a written communication that his office did not possess any documents pertinent to the committee’s inquiry. However, during a follow-up appearance on Wednesday, he retracted that assertion, confirming that the documents had since been located and were active.
“It is still rolling, just that it has been much more active; the last letter was April 2025. My sincere apologies on that, and also my memory could not serve me well. I mentioned that it was a general file instead of the Janneh Commission file. It is a Janneh Commission file. My sincere apologies for those errors to keep your records straight.”
Mr. Njie further clarified that the file in question was opened on 29 June 2017. When asked whether there could be any earlier files relating to the asset sales, he responded, “What I know is, it commenced in 2017.”
During the session, counsel to the committee submitted a formal application requesting Mr. Njie to provide the following:
Reports submitted to the Cabinet by ministries, departments, and agencies;
Any reports or minutes resulting from deliberations on those submissions (if not already included in previous documents);
Conclusions drawn from those deliberations;
And any other records or information related to the aforementioned reports.
The Secretary to Cabinet was also asked to provide Cabinet minutes from 19 January 2017 to the present.
Mr. Njie confirmed to the committee that not all the former president’s assets had been sold.
“I can tell you it is yes, because at the beginning when I made the introduction I mentioned that what we have behind and still now they (some of the vehicles) have not been purchased.” Asked whether the moratorium on the assets was still on, he said “I need to revert back; I don’t know.”
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