By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor in- Chief

Unassailable sources from the Gambian Department of State for Foreign Affairs, say that President Yahya Jammeh has appointed Mr. J. T. Kujabi, as his Director of Press & Public Relations (DPPR). The DPPR position is a forerunner to the much familiar position of Press Secretary that the junta changed as part of its revolutionary bravado.

Until his appointment, J. T. Kujabi was the Public Relations Director at The Gambia Ports Authority (GPA). He had earlier on worked as an editorial hand at the pro-government Daily Observer where he ran The Bantaba column ( Mandinka for Public). A close relative of President Jammeh, J.T. was a ward and protege of John Paul Bojang at Kombo Lamin until he drifted to Bakau because of its proximity to The Observer Company. Mr. Kujabi’s appointment follows a shake-up at State House when the temperamental Head of State sacked Associate Director Mam Sait Ceesay and only after a cross section of the Banjul Mafia descended on him that he rescinded that order. “I do not even have enough boxes to pack all my gadgets from here” Sait was quoted to have divulged to a sympathizing officer who begged anonymity. According to our impeachable sources, “no sane person can deny that Mam was given his marching orders” a famous cliché in Gambian bureaucratic circles.

            In another development, Ousman Secka has been appointed Permanent Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs a further punctuation to our lead story yesterday; that Willie Joof has been sacked following allegations that he diverted over 10,000 Euros meant for the Department’s foreign missions. Like his predecessor, Mr. Secka too shares Joof’s twisted saga, a career civil servant who has been recycled by President Jammeh numerous times. As we went to press, our sources say Mam Sait although pardoned, is in very serious trouble and given President Jammeh’s propensity to tribalism, it is only a matter of time that another Kujabi or Jammeh will replace Sait for good.