"ANOTHER MAJOR CABINET RESHUFFLE IMMINENT"
Possible New VP Coming, Sources Say
By Ebrima Papa Colley (Former Donkey Driver & Son of a Farmer)
Very close sources to the Barrow administration, Tuesday said talks were on for another major cabinet shake in The Gambia’s soon-to-be three government. Vice president, Dr. Isatou Touray is billed to be replaced by a female whose name we choose not to disclose in this unconfirmed report.
Mr. Ebrima Sillah, current information secretary is expected to be touched by the coming reshuffle as are regime spokesperson Ebrima Sankareh, press secretary Amie Bojang Sissoho, Basic and Secondary Education secretary Claudiana Ayo Cole, Local Government Secretary Musa Drammeh, as well as Ebrima Camara, who, until his stroke last month has been Barrow’s Secretary General and Head of Civil Service. Camara’s position is being seen by Ebrima Ceesay who has been a secretary to the cabinet, office of the president. It is spoken that Camara may be replaced by Ceesay.
The same sources told forGambia News that talks have been going on for a possible come back of former vice president Fatoumata Tambajang to the Barrow round table. Her new position, if would happen, has not been revealed to us yet. We respect our source’s insistence that the name of the “female” to possibly replace VP Touray be kept confidential as we scoop to press.
Our sources further hinted that VP Touray, personality-wise or perfunctorily, is not a problem. But some very financially critical Barrow supporters in some provincial community (names withheld) in the Gambia are not comfortable with the vice president’s feminist and anti-FGM stance. Consequently, sources added, the same communities refuse to accord Touray much regard whenever she makes a presence in their regions. “They are traditionalists who don’t like Touray’s fifty-fifty [feminist] views. They also don’t like her anti-customs views,” sources say.
It is also reported that some UDP diasporans are being considered for both cabinet and diplomatic as well as foreign affairs positions by the Barrow administration in a snatch-away chess-board type of move in the wake of festering relations between the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the Barrow camp.
Editor’s Note:
We expect the government to come out and dispute our report any way possible—or at least tweak the changes just to differ with the exactitude of this report. While we strive to help all Gambians make informed choices and decisions, we seek no harm against Dr. Isatou Touray or anyone cited in this report. We say that Dr. Touray has every right to crusade any traditional norm or be whatever she chooses. We also beg the Barrow administration to reconsider and be very careful with reshuffles, especially those as inefficacious to our common good as the one that jettisoned former VP Tambajang Jallow, O.J Jallow, D.A Jawo, etc.