{"id":2627,"date":"2019-10-31T19:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/gambia\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2019-10-31T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:14:06","slug":"jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant","title":{"rendered":"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former President Yahya Jammeh \u201csexually abused\u201d a girl who was part of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, according to Tida Jatta-Jarju, a basic and secondary education director. Tida was testifying before the truth commission yesterday in regards to her role in the scholarship pageant contestant, including information she received while in that position, especially as regards sexual violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She recalled an incident involving the former president and a pageant who was reported to have been sexually abused.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mother was very disturbed. Something happened. We heard that she was sexually abused by the president,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Tida, who said she made attempts to establish if the accusations hold water, admitted she does not know beside the girl in question, if others also were \u201csexually abused\u201d by the former president.<\/p>\n

She defended the objective and intentions of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, initiated in 2008 and dedicated to recognising and appreciating cultural diversity, talent, beauty, grace and intelligence, with the objective of nurturing such potentials for social and economic development.<\/p>\n

Before its purpose was defeated, Tida explained how Jammeh was \u201chappy\u201d with the first edition that he decided to sponsor the whole 100 pageant contestants.
\nShe said the SG\u2019s office at once asked for \u201cfull length photos of the girls together with their bio data. We were asking ourselves why the full length photographs.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said managing the scholarship was never a problem. \u201cI think the problem was students contacting the Office of the President without our knowledge. [Here and then] we would hear so and so have gone for studies without our knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tida said they then started receiving information that some of the girls were working as protocol officers at the presidency.
\n\u201cYes, we received information that some of them were there even though they did not pass through our office [education ministry]. I don\u2019t know under what circumstances they were employed.\u201d Tida told the TRRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President Yahya Jammeh \u201csexually abused\u201d a girl who was part of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, according to Tida Jatta-Jarju, a basic and secondary education director. Tida was testifying before the truth commission yesterday in regards to her role in the scholarship pageant contestant, including information she received while in that position, especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1578,1283,1065,1577],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-22-july-beauty-contestant","tag-former-president-yahya-jammeh","tag-gambia-news-everyday","tag-sexually-abused"],"yoast_head":"\nJammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former President Yahya Jammeh \u201csexually abused\u201d a girl who was part of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, according to Tida Jatta-Jarju, a basic and secondary education director. Tida was testifying before the truth commission yesterday in regards to her role in the scholarship pageant contestant, including information she received while in that position, especially as regards sexual violence.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former President Yahya Jammeh \u201csexually abused\u201d a girl who was part of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, according to Tida Jatta-Jarju, a basic and secondary education director. Tida was testifying before the truth commission yesterday in regards to her role in the scholarship pageant contestant, including information she received while in that position, especially as regards sexual violence.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-31T19:13:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-31T19:14:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"410\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"adama\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"adama\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"adama\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/a7488a69bb91ed4cb95c78165665a7c2\"},\"headline\":\"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-31T19:13:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-31T19:14:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"22 July beauty contestant\",\"former President Yahya Jammeh\",\"gambia news everyday\",\"sexually abused\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant\",\"name\":\"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant - Gambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-31T19:13:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-31T19:14:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/a7488a69bb91ed4cb95c78165665a7c2\"},\"description\":\"Former President Yahya Jammeh \u201csexually abused\u201d a girl who was part of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, according to Tida Jatta-Jarju, a basic and secondary education director. Tida was testifying before the truth commission yesterday in regards to her role in the scholarship pageant contestant, including information she received while in that position, especially as regards sexual violence.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg\",\"width\":728,\"height\":410},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\",\"name\":\"Gambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/a7488a69bb91ed4cb95c78165665a7c2\",\"name\":\"adama\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/866a8a5d75fa1b0ce4b77fe983189f9afa3699d382e302b35a3e164dc3c5ce54?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/866a8a5d75fa1b0ce4b77fe983189f9afa3699d382e302b35a3e164dc3c5ce54?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"adama\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant - Gambia","description":"Former President Yahya Jammeh \u201csexually abused\u201d a girl who was part of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, according to Tida Jatta-Jarju, a basic and secondary education director. Tida was testifying before the truth commission yesterday in regards to her role in the scholarship pageant contestant, including information she received while in that position, especially as regards sexual violence.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant","og_description":"Former President Yahya Jammeh \u201csexually abused\u201d a girl who was part of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, according to Tida Jatta-Jarju, a basic and secondary education director. Tida was testifying before the truth commission yesterday in regards to her role in the scholarship pageant contestant, including information she received while in that position, especially as regards sexual violence.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant","og_site_name":"Gambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2019-10-31T19:13:01+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-10-31T19:14:06+00:00","og_image":[{"width":728,"height":410,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"adama","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"adama","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant"},"author":{"name":"adama","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/a7488a69bb91ed4cb95c78165665a7c2"},"headline":"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant","datePublished":"2019-10-31T19:13:01+00:00","dateModified":"2019-10-31T19:14:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant"},"wordCount":322,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg","keywords":["22 July beauty contestant","former President Yahya Jammeh","gambia news everyday","sexually abused"],"articleSection":["all news","community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant","name":"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant - Gambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg","datePublished":"2019-10-31T19:13:01+00:00","dateModified":"2019-10-31T19:14:06+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/a7488a69bb91ed4cb95c78165665a7c2"},"description":"Former President Yahya Jammeh \u201csexually abused\u201d a girl who was part of the Miss 22 July Scholarship Pageant, according to Tida Jatta-Jarju, a basic and secondary education director. Tida was testifying before the truth commission yesterday in regards to her role in the scholarship pageant contestant, including information she received while in that position, especially as regards sexual violence.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/10\/tida-1.jpg","width":728,"height":410},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/jammeh-abused-22-july-beauty-contestant#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Jammeh \u2018abused\u2019 22 July beauty contestant"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/","name":"Gambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/a7488a69bb91ed4cb95c78165665a7c2","name":"adama","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/866a8a5d75fa1b0ce4b77fe983189f9afa3699d382e302b35a3e164dc3c5ce54?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/866a8a5d75fa1b0ce4b77fe983189f9afa3699d382e302b35a3e164dc3c5ce54?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"adama"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}