$11million Reported Missing From The Country's Treasury After Jammeh's Exile - Gambia

An adviser to President Adama Barrow, Mai Ahmad Fatty, who spoke to reporters in the Senegalese capital Dakar, said that The Gambia was in financial distress as a result of $11million missing from the country's treasury.

 

The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, is reporting that over $11million has been declared and confirmed missing from the country's treasury after  the ex-leader, Yahya Jammeh goes into exile to Equitorial Guinea with his family.

Yahya Jammeh, who was defeated by President  Adama Barrow in the December 1 presidential poll, finally left the country in the evening of Saturday, January 21, 2017 after 22 years as the president of Gambia.

 

Mai Ahmad Fatty, an adviser to President Adama Barrow has expressed in a statement, "The coffers are virtually empty. It has been confirmed by technicians in the ministry of finance and the Central Bank of the Gambia," 

President Barrow also said, “There is no money in the coffers. It’s what we have been told. But the day we actually take office, I will take a look at all the documents and evidence and we will clarify all of it,”.

Finally, Fatty alleged that more than $11m has disappeared from The Gambia’s treasury just in the past two weeks.