{"id":90918,"date":"2025-11-26T19:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/tambadou-offers-claimants-chance-to-buy-back-properties"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:26:51","slug":"tambadou-offers-claimants-chance-to-buy-back-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/tambadou-offers-claimants-chance-to-buy-back-properties","title":{"rendered":"Tambadou Offers Claimants Chance to Buy Back Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Abubacarr M. Tambadou, the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, returned this week to testify before the National Assembly\u2019s special select committee investigating the sale and disposal of assets belonging to former President Yahya Jammeh.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In measured but pointed testimony, Mr. Tambadou described the government\u2019s evolving approach to adjudicating third-party claims to properties tied to the Jammeh era. He said that while officials initially considered creating a dedicated commission to manage such disputes, the idea was eventually dropped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe became commission-fed because these commissions do cost money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he told lawmakers, the government formed a ministerial task force charged with overseeing both the liquidation of Jammeh\u2019s assets and the review of third-party claims\u2014an arrangement he said received presidential approval.<\/p>\n<p>Up to June 2020, he said, the Ministry of Justice maintained an open file to receive applications from claimants. The task force then prioritized the most clear-cut disputes, particularly those already subject to court proceedings or judicial sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to start with the most straightforward ones; the ministerial task force will abide by the outcome of the court\u2019s decisions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tambadou outlined several categories of claims. Some involved properties that complainants said had been undervalued during judicial sales. Others involved assets that former President Jammeh was alleged to have pressured owners to sell. In certain cases, he added, the government offered claimants the option to repurchase their properties at the same prices Mr. Jammeh had paid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to offer them the opportunity to buy back their properties at the price that the former president paid for those properties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the individuals who filed claims, he named Modou Pull, Boubacarr Sompo Ceesay, and the owners of Futurelek.<\/p>\n<p>But not all cases moved quickly. Mr. Tambadou acknowledged that more complicated disputes\u2014including those involving former PPP ministers or individuals identified by the Janneh Commission\u2014remained unresolved when he left office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were more complex cases of claimants that I thought we could deal with later,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Abubacarr M. Tambadou, the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, returned this week to testify before the National Assembly\u2019s special select committee investigating the sale and disposal of assets belonging to former President Yahya Jammeh. In measured but pointed testimony, Mr. Tambadou described the government\u2019s evolving approach to adjudicating third-party claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":90917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-90918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tambadou Offers Claimants Chance to Buy Back Properties - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abubacarr M. 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