Tabloid journalism or fact?


Culled From The Independent

Reports reaching The Independent have intimated that Honourable Fatoumatta 
Jahumpa Ceesay a nominated member in the National Assembly has finally call 
it a day as the Director of Press and Public Relations at State House, 
although she maintained that she was still manning the post. The Independent 
was reliably informed that a letter was written to FJC after her nomination 
into the National Assembly informing her to stop receiving double salaries as 
a member of the National Assembly and as the DPPR. Sources had intimated that 
another letter was written to her on Friday March 1, which was handed over to 
her on the same day, informing her that as a nominated member, she has no 
mandate to cling on to that position. 

Sources however stated that on Monday 4th March, when Fatoumatta went to work 
at State House, she was confronted with an order to vacate her office. A 
reported tet-a tet with the president took place which sources say led to 
Fatoumatta handing over her car keys and her mobile phone to the president 
who in turn told her that the car and the mobile phone should not be handed 
over to him as they were not given to her by him. Sources again revealed that 
the president then told her to take the car and the mobile phone and leave 
his office.

Informed sources further claimed that Honourable Jahumpa-Ceesay finally 
handed her car to State House at around 2:30pm on Tuesday 5th March.

However, when contacted in her home on Wednesday to shed light on the matter, 
Honourable Jahumpa Ceesay told The Independent that as far as she was 
concerned, she was still the DPPR at State House. ‘That is news to me. I am 
still the DPPR and still working under President Jammeh and if you want you 
can call the secretary general or the PMO” she suggested. Meanwhile, the PMO 
was said to be out of town and the acting permanent secretary declined to 
comment on the issue. 

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