Henry Gomez

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Henry Gomez (born December 3, 1963 in Bathurst ) is a businessman and politician in the West African state of Gambia . Until February 2017 he was Minister of Youth and Sports in the Adama Barrow cabinet .

Life

Gomez first worked as a businessman in New Jeshwang , later he went to Hamburg via France in August 1986 . He first became an employee of a cleaning company and in 1996 founded his first own cleaning company. In 2001 he reorganized the company into Magom Cleaning Company and by 2017 he has around 100 employees.

In 2004 he founded the Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress (GPDP), of which he became leader and secretary. Gomez wanted to run in the presidential elections in Gambia 2006 as a candidate on August 28, 2006 , but the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) forbade him constitutionally because he had not lived in Gambia for the past five years. The GPDP supported the opposition coalition made up of the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the National Reconciliation Party (NRP), but this had no influence on the election. At the end of 2006 he returned to Gambia from Germany. In the parliamentary elections in 2007 and 2012, the GPDP did not run, Gomez stayed mainly in Germany again. In December 2010, Gomez said his party had some grassroots support in Gambia, and in 2011 he supported the Hamat Bah (NRP) opposition .

On February 1, 2017, the newly elected President Adama Barrow appointed Gomez to his cabinet as minister for youth and sport . Critics accused him that his appointment is unconstitutional - since as a minister he is not allowed to have dual citizenship . Gomez then stated that he only had a residence permit in Germany and did not have German citizenship .

With a larger Cabinet reshuffle on June 29, 2018, he resigned from the cabinet, his future task he is Special Advisor to the President on dealing with youth ( English Special Youth Adviser to the President ) exercise.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c I am not a dual citizen - Gambian youth minister Henry Gomez. In: wordpress.com. February 1, 2017, accessed February 27, 2017 .
  2. ^ David Perfect: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifth edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 .
  3. ↑ Meet Gambia's new Ministers. (No longer available online.) In: The Standard Newspaper. February 2, 2017, archived from the original ; accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Gambia: Updated Version of the Cabinet Reshuffle Press Release! In: Freedom Newspaper. June 29, 2018, accessed August 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gomez, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst