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| Momodou |
Posted - 24 Feb 2023 : 14:48:01
Congratulations!
President Barrow Appoints Vice President
In accordance with the provisions of Sections 70(1) and 70(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia, His Excellency President Adama Barrow has appointed Mr Muhammad B. S. Jallow as Vice President of the Republic of The Gambia with effect from 24th February 2023.
Vice President Muhammad Jallow, an experienced Civil Servant, served in different capacities, from an unqualified teacher to Permanent Secretary in various Ministries. He rose to the position of Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service, a position he held until his statutory retirement in 2020. Mr Jallow also worked at the Senegalo -Gambia Secretariat as Deputy Executive Secretary representing The Gambia. |
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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 26 Feb 2023 : 17:49:33
Well Muhammed Jallow would seem to have EVERYTHING that is wanted for the job and as a BONUS (in my view) I don't think he has much interest in politics. |
| toubab1020 |
Posted - 26 Feb 2023 : 17:32:21
Good Choice,Mr President Sir, A VERY VERY Educated Man.and an EXCELLENT All Rounder . |
| Momodou |
Posted - 26 Feb 2023 : 14:43:33
UK-educated Muhammed Jallow is Barrow’s Final Choice for VP
By Sanna Camara
The Friday evening press release from the Office of the President last week said very little about him besides his work as a qualified teacher. But Muhammed B. S. Jallow is a UK educated statistician, Mathematician and Planning Specialist who rose through ranks in government to become Secretary General and Head of Civil Service before his retirement in August 2020.
Mr Muhammad BS Jallow acquired a Bachelors in Education Degree in Educational Planning and Statistics, University of Bristol and a Masters in Educational Planning and Statistics from the same University between 1991 and 1995. Prior to his stint at the Office of the President as Secretary General, he was Permanent Secretary in charge of Policy and Coordination in the same office between 2018 and 2019, and in August 2019, he was elevated to the position of Secretary General.
In 1997, Mr Jallow was a World Bank awardee in Washington, DC, for his work in Public Expenditure Review, with emphasis on Education, and in 2001, received another award in Project and Programme Management, Regional Infrastructure Programme for Africa, a key component of the Africa free trade initiative with the UK.
His work as a planning specialist in 2005 saw him undergo a “Process Facilitator on Goal Oriented Project Planning (GOPP)” in Brussels, Belgium, and in 2007 to “Strategic Choices in Education” at the World Bank Institute, Washington, DC.
In his civil service career, Jallow was Educational Planner/Statistician in 1992, became Principal Planner in 1995 and Director of Information Technology and Human Resources, Ministry of Education in 1998. In that role, he served as technical adviser to Senior Management on issues relating to staffing, training and ICT.
In 2003, he was Director of Planning, Ministry of Education and rose to the position of Deputy Permanent Secretary of Programmes, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education in 2014, a role that combines chief technical adviser to the Permanent Secretary, until 2017, when he became Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education. |
| Momodou |
Posted - 26 Feb 2023 : 05:59:53
Congratulations To VP Jallow, But……
By D. A. Jawo
With the appointment of Muhamned Jallow as the new Vice President, President Adama Barrow seems to have made good his promise to never again appoint anyone as VP who would want to replace him as president.
Indeed, it is quite clear that Muhammed would never harbour such an ambition. He is a technocrat who has never shown any interest in politics, let alone want to become president.
While Muhammed looks like a calm and composed person, but is that enough quality to make a good VP? Let us hope therefore that he would not just be a ceremonial VP who would have no impact on the lives of ordinary Gambians but instead fill the position just for its sake.
With President Barrow lacking any public service experience as well as not well grounded in governance matters, he needed a proactive VP who would help him run the country. However, Muhammed does not look like such a person. Being a non-politician and someone who spent all his working life in the civil service, he may not likely take any initiative on his own but instead would only carry out executive orders given to him by President Barrow. That is certainly not going to do much good to the country as well as the Barrow administration, which presently needs some serious reinvigoration.
There is no doubt that a majority of Gambians, particularly the women, were disappointed that President Barrow has again chosen a man as VP. It is quite hard to understand why he has once again bypassed the women, who not only form more than 50 per cent of the population, but they are also 56 per cent of those registered to vote. It appears that he has not only taken them for granted but he has shown his government’s gender insensitivity. That is quite evident in most of his appointments in government agencies and institutions. A good case in point is the Public Service Commission (PSC), which for the very first time since independence, seems to comprise only men, as if the women do not matter in such an important public institution.
Also, while the Barrow administration started with at least two women regional governors, but presently, there is none. It appears that President Barrow hardly thinks about the women when he is making such appointments. |
| Momodou |
Posted - 24 Feb 2023 : 15:24:29
"President Adama Barrow appoints a new VP, Muhammed B.S Jallow. A former SG who pens the executive directive to procure the Malagasy Covid-19 cure.
This was on May 6, 2020. Within hours from when the executive directive was issued, foreign affairs minister Dr Mamadou Tangara, chief of protocol Alagie Ceesay, then ambassador Alieu K Jammeh were all gathered at the airport, waiting for the plane to arrive.
At the same time, the Ministry of Health raised the voucher, the Accountant General processed the payment and Central Bank issued bulk cash of Euros 39,333 (approximately D2.2M) for payment."
By Mustapha-Swandi K Darboe
https://malagen.org/investigations/inside-malagasy-miracle-covid-cure-donation-that-costs-gambia-d2-2m/ |
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