Brigadier General Alagie Martin, Commander of the State
Guards Battalion, is the latest to join the list of senior military officers to
be relieved of their duties in The Gambia recently.
A news release from the presidency announced yesterday that Martin has been relieved of his duties, and deployed to the country’s diplomatic service as a civilian.
The move comes less than a week after President Yahya
Jammeh relieved Lt. General Masanneh Kinteh, former Chief of Defence Staff of
the
Earlier in May this year, four army generals were
discharged from the armed forces, and appointed as deputy ambassadors to
various diplomatic missions in Africa, Asia and the
According to reports, former chief of naval staff
Commodore Madani Senghore will go to