{"id":86383,"date":"2025-09-20T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/tambadou-denies-receiving-jammehs-d200-million-scanner"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:04:01","slug":"tambadou-denies-receiving-jammehs-d200-million-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/tambadou-denies-receiving-jammehs-d200-million-scanner","title":{"rendered":"Tambadou Denies Receiving Jammeh’S D200 Million Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubacarr M. Tambadou, has dismissed claims that he personally received a container scanner valued at more than D200 million from the assets of former president Yahya Jammeh.<\/b><\/p>\n

Tambedou appeared before the National Assembly\u2019s Special Select Committee investigating the disposal of Jammeh\u2019s assets, where he rejected testimony by Augustus Prom, the former receiver of Jammeh\u2019s properties, who had suggested the machine was handed directly to him.<\/p>\n

Committee member Hon. Omar Jammeh presented Tambadou with Prom\u2019s testimony, asking how he responded to the claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did you say to that?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

In response, Tambedou dismissed the assertion as a misstatement: \u201cFirst and foremost, I believe Mr. Prom misspoke; I don\u2019t think he intended to mean me individually because that would have been impossible. One, we are talking about a scanner that is located at the ports. I can count the number of times I went to the ports. Even as a private citizen and as attorney general, I only went to the ports once when His Excellency the President was inaugurating the Kunta Kinteh Ferry, and two, the handing over wouldn\u2019t have been done to the attorney general,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He clarified that the scanner was formally transferred to the Ministry of Justice through the civil litigation department and was later handed over to Alpha Barry, who succeeded Prom as receiver.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a handing-over note between him and Mr. Barry, the new receiver, to show which items were transferred to him, so I think Mr. Prom simply misspoke,\u201d Tambadou said.<\/p>\n

Hon. Jammeh further pressed Tambedou on whether the scanner might have been diverted for private use.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know if the machine is still generating revenue for the country?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

In response, Tambadou states, \u201cAs far as I know, the scanner is still at the ports. If there are questions about whether it has been used or misused, or properly accounted for, then that is a matter for the committee to investigate. But what I can say is that it was never handed to me personally,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n

Committee members also questioned him about other Jammeh-linked assets, including vehicles reportedly stored at the Gambia Ports Authority and mining equipment seized from APAM and other companies. Tambedou distanced himself from their management, stressing that the Janneh Commission\u2019s recommendations had already been adopted in the government\u2019s white paper.<\/p>\n

On the matter of Jammeh\u2019s cattle, Tambedou clarified that his ministry played no role in their sale: \u201cThe Ministry of Justice did not sell Jammeh\u2019s cattle. These sales were done under the supervision of judicial officers; our role was simply to observe the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

He emphasized that, during his tenure as Attorney General, his focus remained on transitional justice, governance, and peace, while the custody and documentation of Jammeh\u2019s assets were managed by designated officials within the ministry.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubacarr M. Tambadou, has dismissed claims that he personally received a container scanner valued at more than D200 million from the assets of former president Yahya Jammeh. Tambedou appeared before the National Assembly\u2019s Special Select Committee investigating the disposal of Jammeh\u2019s assets, where he rejected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":86382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-86383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"\nTambadou Denies Receiving Jammeh'S D200 Million Scanner - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubacarr M. 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