Fatou Mass Jobe-Njie

Fatou Mass Jobe-Njie (also Fatou Mas Jobe , born around 1966 in Serekunda ) is a Gambian politician.

Family and education

Jobe-Njie's father died when she was three years old. Her mother Adama Saidy died a few years later, so that she and her siblings grew up with her uncle Alhage Jagne and her grandmother Mam Anta Khan in Serekunda. Alieu Momar Njie , chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission in the 2016 presidential election , is her cousin. Her half-brother Serign Jobe was director of the Gambian National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC).

She was married to political scientist Gumbo Touray and has a son with him, Ousman Touray. After divorcing Touray, she married Buna Njie.

Fatou Mass Jobe-Njie attended Serrekunda Primary School and St. Joseph's High School in Banjul. She studied in Great Britain from 1984 to 1989 and obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wolverhampton .

Career

She initially worked in the tourism industry, later from March 1994 to November 1996 in marketing at Gamtel .

From 1998 she headed the Marketing department at Standard Chartered Bank and worked at Bank PHB as Head of Private Customers.

Around 2008 she was director of The Gambia's Premier Resort and Casino (also: Dunes Resort and Casino ) in Kotu .

4 February 2010 Jobe-Njie was by President Yahya Jammeh to the cabinet (as Minister of Tourism and Culture English Minister of Tourism and Culture ) appointed and replaced Nancy Njie . In the same year she received the Order of the Republic of The Gambia in the medal stage . In September 2014 she was released and replaced by Benjamin Roberts .

Shortly after her release, in October 2014 she was appointed ambassador to Malaysia , where there had previously been no permanent Gambian embassy. She held the post until the end of March 2015. Abubacarr Jah took over the position in May 2015 .

Njie was also the chairperson of the Gambia National Red Cross Society . She was also elected chairwoman of the Africa Travel Association in May 2010 .

From summer 2015 until the end of 2016 she worked as a personal advisor to First Lady Zineb Jammeh and director of their charity, Operation Save the Children Foundation (OSCF).

In August 2017, her diplomatic passport was declared invalid.

On January 31, 2018, she was interrogated as a witness by the Janneh Commission , a committee of inquiry set up by President Adama Barrow to investigate the financial activities of former President Yahya Jammeh . She said that of the US $ 300,000 taken by Operation Save the Children Foundation (OSCF), only US $ 25,000 was spent on children.

The committee's final report was published in September 2019. The committee saw joint responsibility for financial transactions during a state visit, a hotel visit and the embezzlement of funds from the foundation. The government rejected the recommended dismissal, as no individual misconduct could be proven.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} WOMEN’S WEEKLY - a charismatic Gambian woman. Retrieved December 24, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Pa Nderry Mbai: Gambia: Chief Jammeh Enabler Fatou Mass Is A Close Relative Of The IEC Chairman! In: Freedom Newspaper. October 24, 2016. Retrieved December 24, 2018 (American English). 
3. ↑ Amie Dibba and Ous CEO Touray tied the nut. Will the wedding take place in The Gambia, the US or UK? (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 26, 2018 ; accessed on December 25, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Pa Nderry Mbai: Gambia: Fatou Mass Jobe Has Sold Her Soul To The Jammehs! In: Freedom Newspaper. October 22, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2018 (American English). 
5. ^ ^{A b} Gambian Brains: The Best and Brightest from St. Joseph's High - Daily Observer. February 4, 2017, accessed December 24, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Gambia's Tourism Minister Removed. In: Jollofnews. September 13, 2014. Retrieved December 24, 2018 (American English). 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} NEW CABINET RESHUFFLE BRINGS FATOU MAS JOBE NJIE, SIX OTHERS, INTO POLE POSITIONS  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Today Newspaper of February 8, 2010  
8. ↑ allAfrica.com: Fatou Mas Jobe Woman in Her Prime. March 2, 2002, accessed December 25, 2018 . 
9. ↑ six new cabinet ministers sworn-in ( memento of the original from August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Message from the State House (Gambia) dated February 10, 2010 
10. ↑ Cabinet changes in Gambia  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.jollofnews.com from February 5, 2010  
11. ↑ Jollof Media Network: Sacked Gambian Tourism Minister Named Ambassador. September 15, 2014, accessed December 24, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Changes in diplomatic circles. May 18, 2015, accessed December 24, 2018 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC BODIES, ENTERPRISES AND OFFICES AS REGARDS THEIR DEALINGS WITH FORMER PRESIDENT YAHYA AJJ JAMMEH AND CONNECTED MATTERS REPORT VOLUME 9. Retrieved January 14, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Fatou Mass Jobe-Njie elected as president of ATA's Board of Directors ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Today Newspaper of May 26, 2010 
15. ↑ Gambia minister of tourism and culture named new ATA president eTurboNews of May 24, 2010
16. ↑ whales Odunsi: Gambia revokes Jammeh's diplomatic passport. In: Daily Post Nigeria. August 4, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2018 (American English). 
17. ↑ Editor: Fatou Mass Jobe Reappears At 'Janneh' Commission. January 31, 2018. Retrieved December 25, 2018 (American English). 
18. ^ Government Rejects Recommendation on Ex-Tourism Minister. In: Foroyaa Newspaper. September 15, 2019, accessed January 14, 2020 (American English). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Nancy Njie	Minister of Tourism and Culture 2010–	-