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Jammeh appoints Sira Wally Ndow, Energy Minister

By Ebrima G. Sankareh, Editor-In-Chief

Aja Sira Wally and Alhaji Chachai in white robes, Dec. 2006- photo source: State House  

Unimpeachable sources in Banjul report that Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has appointed Mrs. Sira Wally Ndow-Njie Minister of Energy; a post that the dictator has held for a long time now. Until her appointment Tuesday, Sira Wally was Deputy Managing Director at the country’s dysfunctional National Water And Electricity company-NAWEC.

As recent as November 7, 2009, Sira Wally Ndow led an army of the company’s staff to labour at the President’s Kanilai farms. Our correspondent who witnessed the trip to the president’s farm described her relation with Jammeh as very intimate and highly suspect.

Reveals Kissy Kissy Mansa, with Sira Njie’s appointment as Energy Minister, speculations are rife that the Cabinet is going to be messier as Jammeh’s so-called “significant other halves”, struggle tooth and nail to keep the baton of presidential attention and all its inherent privileges.

A high schoolmate to Gambian dictator and ever since Jammeh’s seizing power in the wake of the July 22, 1994 coup, the old high school madam has been gravitating towards the corridors of state power amid speculations, innuendoes and insinuations. We will continue to closely monitor the situation as Sira Ndow prepares for the oath of office.

For now though, it remains to be seen how far she too will permeate the system and survive the “Moroccan broom” that vice President Isatou Njie Saidy has skillfully managed to elude amid presidential overtures that continue to raise eyebrows.