I congratulate Francis for his appointment as Deputy Minister. Although I do not know the functions of a Deputy Minister, I know Francis to be a serious and well-focused individual. He was my classmate at Saint Augustine's and I have always admired his sobriety and sense of purpose. I am confident he developed to become a valuable building engineer. If anything I would be worried Francis does not get corrupted as a political appointee. He's like a rose in a heap of cow dung.



Deputy Minister Francis Litti Mboge, 46, was born on the 4th December 1965 in Banjul. He has been in the construction industry for 20 years. He graduated from St.Augustine’s High School in Banjul in 1982. Two years after his high school graduation, he worked at the Department of Survey from 1984 to 1986 before leaving for Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom where he studied building engineering from 1986 to 1990. From 1990 to 1991, Mboge studied at the Nottingham Trent University where he did his post-graduate diploma in building management before returning home.
Mboge was one of the founding partners of the Bomon Associate, a construction consulting company founded in 1992 to 2004. The firm was the consultant for the School of Nursing and Medicine in Banjul as well as the School of Public Health at the Gambia College. Bomon also took part in the construction of the current government’s middle school project, and the upgrading of the regional education centres for all the regions. He was also a joint venture partner with an international consultancy firm on the health sector requirement study for The Gambia in which it was responsible for the works and infrastructure of that project.
Until Mboge’s appointment as deputy minister of Works and Communication Infrastructure, he was the manager for West Africa for an international construction consultant called GLEEDS. As a regional manager for GLEEDS, one of Mboge’s major construction projects was the cost management for the design of an alumina refinery and town in the bauxite region of Guinea Conakry.

 

 Haruna.

 

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Monday, February 13, 2012

The President of the Republic, His Excellency, Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh last Friday, February 10th, 2012 appointed four ministers and two deputy ministers into his new Cabinet, a media release from State House disclosed.
The release reads:
His Excellency the president of the Republic of The Gambia Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, acting under the provisions of Sections 70(1), 70(3), 71(1) and 71(3) respectively, of the Constitution of the Republic of The Gambia has made the following Cabinet appointments with immediate effect:
Mr Lamin Waa Juwara as Minister of Local Government and Lands; Justice Lamin Jobarteh as Attorney General and Minister of Justice; Mr Sheriff Gomez as Minister of Interior; Mr Alieu K Jammeh as Minister of Youth and Sports; Mr Solomon Owens as Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Mr Francis Liti Mobge as Deputy Minister of Works, Construction & Infrastructure.
Background
Local Gov’t Minister Juwara
Minister Lamin Waa Juwara studied Political Science in Bulgaria and is very aufait with local government administration. He served as commissioner in almost all the administrative regions in The Gambia during the First Republic. He vied for a political office in 1992 as an independent candidate in his native Niamina Dankunku Constituency, defeating a candidate of the then ruling PPP in the parliamentary elections. He then served as a member of parliament from 1992 to July 1994 when a change of government took place. Waa joined the United Democratic Party (UDP) in 1997, becoming its propaganda secretary.
Juwara later fell out with the UDP leadership over ideological differences and went on to form his own party -the National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM). In 2009, he publicly addressed an APRC meeting in Niamina Dankunku during the president’s “Dailogue with Peoples Tour” during which he extolled the leadership of President Jammeh and went on to throw his weight behind the ruling party. He was later appointed governor of the Lower River Region (LRR), a position he held until his recent appointment to Cabinet. Before he became governor, Juwara was a nominated councilor at the Brikama Area Council (BAC).
Interior Minister Gomez
Minister Gomez is a former military officer who served as the first coordinator of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSS). He later served as deputy executive director of the NYSS before taking up an appointment as project coordinator of Gamjobs. Gomez, who also studied in UK was later appointed minister of Youth and Sports in 2008; a post he held until the previous Cabinet was dissolved on the 2nd of February, 2012.
Justice Minister Jobarteh
Attorney General and Justice Minister Lamin Jobarteh is a native of Bansang in CRR. A former police and intelligence officer, he started his educational journey in Bansang Primary School, before proceeding to Crab Island and then Armitage High School in Janjanbureh. He attended Rabun Gab Nacoochee High School in Georgia, USA, and later Aquinas High School in US. Justice Jobarteh later attended the University of the West Indies, Guyana where he started his law programme. He later moved to Forobay College in Sierra Leone where he also studied law. Jobarteh eventually finished his law degree at the International Islamic University in Malaysia.
Prior to studying law, he served in various ministries and departments as a trainee executive officer. When he finished his law programme, he worked as a state counsel at the Ministry of Justice, the Gambia Police Force and the National Intelligence Agency respectively, before taking up private legal practice, opening his chambers called Kala Jula Chambers. In 2010 Jobarteh was appointed a High Court judge. In 2011 he was appointed acting judge of the Gambia Court of Appeal.
Youth and Sports Minister Jammeh
Minister Alieu Kebba Jammeh was born in 1972 in Illiasa village, North Bank Region. He attended primary school in Illiasa and Farafenni before moving to Armitage High School in Janjangbureh where he became a head boy and did his O’levels. He later did his A’levels at the Gambia High School. Minister Jammeh obtained his BA in Public Administration in Uganda on an Organisation of Islamic Countries scholarship. He later obtained MA degree in Political Science in Malaysia on a university scholarship. He also obtained MA degree in Post-War Recovery Studies on a commonwealth scholarship in the United Kingdom.
Minister Jammeh has worked with the Gambia government since 2004 in various capacities at various sectors such as the Personnel Management Office (PMO), Ministries of Tourism and Culture and Local Government and Lands respectively. In 2008 he was moved to the Ministry of Youth and Sports and served as principal assistant secretary, deputy permanent secretary, and permanent secretary until his current appointment as the minister of Youth and Sports.Before joining the government, Jammeh worked at the Guaranty Trust Bank. He also worked at the West African Network for Peace Building (WANEP).
Works Deputy Minister Mboge
Deputy Minister Francis Litti Mboge, 46, was born on the 4th December 1965 in Banjul. He has been in the construction industry for 20 years. He graduated from St.Augustine’s High School in Banjul in 1982. Two years after his high school graduation, he worked at the Department of Survey from 1984 to 1986 before leaving for Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom where he studied building engineering from 1986 to 1990. From 1990 to 1991, Mboge studied at the Nottingham Trent University where he did his post-graduate diploma in building management before returning home.
Mboge was one of the founding partners of the Bomon Associate, a construction consulting company founded in 1992 to 2004. The firm was the consultant for the School of Nursing and Medicine in Banjul as well as the School of Public Health at the Gambia College. Bomon also took part in the construction of the current government’s middle school project, and the upgrading of the regional education centres for all the regions. He was also a joint venture partner with an international consultancy firm on the health sector requirement study for The Gambia in which it was responsible for the works and infrastructure of that project.
Until Mboge’s appointment as deputy minister of Works and Communication Infrastructure, he was the manager for West Africa for an international construction consultant called GLEEDS. As a regional manager for GLEEDS, one of Mboge’s major construction projects was the cost management for the design of an alumina refinery and town in the bauxite region of Guinea Conakry.
Reaction
Reacting to his appointment, Deputy Minister Mboge said it as an “honour and privilege to be given the opportunity” to serve the country and its people. “To whom much is given, much is expected,” he stated in an interview while expressing his resolve to do the best to help in the development process of the country.
Agric Deputy Minister Owens
Deputy Minister Solomon Owens, 62, was born in Dippa Kunda in the Kanifing Municipality on the 9th of March 1950. He attended St.Therese’s Primary School from 1955 to 1961 where he sat for the Common Entrance Examination before moving to St. Augustine’s High School in Banjul where he obtained his O’levels in 1967. He then joined the Department of Agriculture on the 1st of August 1967 as an agricultural student and attended Yundum College where he finished and qualified in 1970 with the National Certificate in Agriculture.
Owens then proceeded to Ahmed Bello University in Nigeria for two years where he obtained the Nigerian Ordinary National Diploma in Agriculture. After returning home, he worked for sometime before going to the University of Ghana in 1976-78 where he spent three years and obtained the Ghana Higher National Diploma in Agriculture. He then returned to The Gambia and was appointed agriculture superintendent between 1978 and 1980. Owens later traveled to the United States to study at Texas State University where he obtained his Bsc in Crops (he got Summa Cumlaude – the highest grade one can obtain in graduating of a first degree) in 1982. He obtained his Msc in Agronomy from the same university.
After returning home, Owens was appointed scientific officer in the research station in Yundum before bagging the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship award in 1986 to Colorado State University where he got a graduate diploma in Agricultural Administration. When he returned home, he was appointed senior scientific officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and in 1989 he was seconded to the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) where he rose to the position of deputy director of CRS. In 1998 he was appointed the West Africa regional technical adviser for Agriculture under CRS before he finally retired in 2001.
Reaction
Reacting to his appointment, the deputy Agriculture minister said: “It came as a very big surprise – quite unexpected and I accepted it in good faith. His Excellency the president spoke about the need for sacrifice to help in the development of the country and I really shared that vision of his and his approach to development, especially in agriculture. So I appreciate the recognition and the confidence he has in me.I am not new in the field of agriculture and so also are the people I am going to work with. I am sure with that experience we shared in the past we should be able to build a strong team for the realisation of the objectives and the vision of the president.”
Author: Daily Observer

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