He replaces Cherno Marena, who has been redeployed to the Foreign Service, as Gambia’s deputy ambassador to Turkey.
Marenah’s spell at the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s office dates back years.
Confirming the story, Ebrima Sankareh, government spokesperson clarified that Marenah has not been dismissed but instead redeployed to the ‘diplomatic mission’.
Until his appointment as new Solicitor General, Thomasi was an adviser to the Ministry of Justice.
Hussein’s brief career
From 1987-1994, Thomasi was a state counsel, senior state counsel and later principal state counsel at the Ministry of Justice. From 1994 – 1996, he was a legal manager and subsequently Managing Director at the Asset Management Recovery Corporation (AMRC).
He was also head of Legal Unit, Central Bank of The Gambia from 1996 - 1998, before becoming Director Legal Affairs, West African Monetary Institute in Ghana from 2001 - 2014.
Mr. Thomasi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Lagos and a Master’s degree in International Legal Studies at American University, WASH.
Reed Brody, an American human right lawyer known as Dictator Hunter, said if former self-exiled President Yahya Jammeh is to face trial in The Gambia, it may cause instability because his supporters are still in denial of the atrocities committed by him.
There is growing anger among the youth in the coastal community of Bato Kunku at what they called ‘abuse at the village quarry’ by Gimcom Sand Mining Company.
As the country’s inflation continues to increase and the prices of onion keep escalating in many parts of the country, the party leader of Gambia Moral Congress (GMC), Mai Ahmed Fatty, pointed out the need for the country to place an “immediate interim embargo on the importation of onions,” adding there are sufficient locally produced onions for domestic consumption.
Women Lives Matters, a movement established to fight for the safe labour and delivery of women in The Gambia has strongly rebutted what it called the “false and malicious” statement of Baba Jah against women who died during labour.
