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Recently, the fight against public corruption has gained increased importance, especially in developing countries. Public corruption is the betrayal of trust and conscience in which an individual (s) “uses government resources for personal use at the expense of the public good.” In the Gambia, we are losing the fight against […]
Papa Massata Diack, son of former world athletics boss Lamine Diack, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison for corruption in the 2011 Russian doping scandal, a case that shook the sports world. In his absence, the Paris appeal court upheld the first instance sentence but halved the […]
Press Release: The Office of the Attorney General is pleased to announce that todayWednesday 8th March 2023, a conviction has been secured against Dr.Bamba Banja, former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Fisheries andWater Resources. The charges laid against Dr. Banja by this office in 2021included three counts of serious […]
A fresh corruption scandal has hit the Gambia government through the Ministry of Health regarding their non-compliant expenditure on the Global Fund Program in Switzerland. The scandal involved D20Million out of which the Gambia Government should refund D10M believed to be embezzled. According to a letter dated 8th February 2023 […]