Baba Jobe

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Baba Kajally Jobe (* 1959 in Karantaba ; † October 28, 2011 in Banjul ) was a politician in the West African state of Gambia .

Life

Jarra West constituency
General election be right Voting share
1997 000000000002981.00000000002,981 47.10%
2002 unanimously elected

Baba Jobe stood on January 2, 1997 in the parliamentary elections in Gambia for a seat in the Gambian National Assembly in the constituency of Jarra West for the party Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC). He was defeated by the rival candidate Kemenseng N. Jammeh of the United Democratic Party (UDP). In the parliamentary elections in 2002 , the UDP boycotted the election, so that no further candidate ran in the constituency of Jarra West and Jobe obtained a seat in the National Assembly for the constituency of Jarra West. In parliament he then took over the function of the spokesman for the parliamentary group of the majority ( English Majority Leader ).

Baba Jobe was arrested on October 10, 2003 and charged with white-collar crime. He was sentenced to nine years in prison on March 26, 2004. Jobe was the director of the Gambia New Millennium Air , he was accused of arms trafficking and links with the Liberian blood diamond trade . Jobe received a United Nations travel ban under UN Security Council Resolution 1343 and his assets were frozen. The New Millennium Air was also affected by the ban.

While still in prison, he was hospitalized on October 23, 2011 , and Jobe died on October 28 at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baba Jobe passes away - The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia. In: thepoint.gm. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  2. ^ Baba Jobe in New Travel Ban List Travels to Libya in Defiance The Independent of January 4, 2002
  3. ^ Sanctions: Revised Travel Ban List, Updated December 2001 The Independent, January 4, 2002
  4. ↑ Jammeh Should Be Probed FrontPageAfrica, December 4, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Jobe, Baba
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jobe, Baba Kajally (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Karantaba (Jarra West)
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2011
Place of death Banjul