On Monday, the chairperson of the National Assembly’s special committee looking into the sale and disposal of assets connected to former President Yahya Jammeh informed lawmakers that a portion of the panel’s report had been unintentionally left out and formally submitted the missing section for review.
The committee’s conclusions and recommendations regarding businesses, equity holdings, and a category of objects referred to as “additional assets” are included in the extra material, according to chairperson Abdoulie Ceesay.
In a speech to the plenary, Mr. Ceesay stated, “Following the tabling of the report, it has come to the committee’s attention that a portion of the report was inadvertently omitted,” Mr. Ceesay said in an address to the plenary. “The omitted portion relates specifically to the committee’s finding and recommendation on companies and equity holdings and a category of assets classified as fodder assets.”
Mr. Ceesay described the absence as administrative, stressing that it had no bearing on the content of the report that had already been submitted to the Assembly.
“This omission was purely administrative and does not affect the substance of the work already presented, save for the absence of this relevant section,” he stated.
In order to guarantee the report’s completeness and support legislators in their discussions, he continued, the committee was sending the missing section.
“In order to ensure completeness of the committee’s work and to assist this honorable Assembly in its deliberations, the committee hereby submits the omitted portion of the report for consideration alongside the main report,” Mr. Ceesay stated.
The report is a component of a larger legislative initiative to manage and account for assets taken after Mr. Jammeh’s regime ended.
