Yaya Ceesay

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yaya Ceesay (* 1936 or 1937 ) is a Gambian politician of the People's Progressive Party ( PPP ) , who was Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1969 and from 1974 to 1978 . He was also Minister for Local Government and Lands from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1992 to 1994.

Life

MP and Minister

Yaya Ceesay is from the people of Mandinka derived Muslim whose father as a farmer in Sankwia in the Lower River Division lived. After attending the Pakalinding School from 1947 to 1955 , he entered the police force. In 1959 he resigned from the police force and was set up for the People's Progressive Party ( PPP ) for the parliamentary elections in British Gambia in 1960 in the constituency of Jarra , after the previous PPP candidate Kalilu S. Dabo because of his proposal to form an electoral alliance with the Democratic Congress Alliance DCA ( Democratic Congress Alliance ) had been deposed. In the election, Ceesay was able to vote with 1,880 votes (52.57 percent) against the non-party K. Barrow (892 votes, 24.94 percent) and against Kalilu S. Dabo, who was also a non-party candidate (804 votes, 22.48 percent) enforce and was the first time a member of the House of representatives ( House of representatives ) elected. In the following parliamentary elections in British Gambia in May 1962 , he was re-elected in the constituency of Jarra with 3,905 votes (84.56 percent). He took over his first government office as Parliamentary State Secretary in 1965 and was re-elected to the House of Representatives in the elections on May 26, 1966 with 3,147 votes (83.74 percent), where he was now running in the new constituency of Western Jarra .

In 1968, Ceesay was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources to the Jawara I Cabinet . In the course of a government reshuffle , he then took over the office of Minister for Local Government and Lands in 1969, which he also held in the Jawara II cabinet formed on April 24, 1970 and in the one formed on March 29, 1972 until his replacement by Andrew Camara in July 1974 Cabinet Jawara III took over. In the meantime, he was unanimously re-elected with 100 percent as a member of the House of Representatives in the elections on March 28 and 29, 1972 without opposing candidates in the constituency of Western Jarra . In July 1974 he took over the post of Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Jawara III cabinet from Alieu Badara N'Jie , who in turn became the new Foreign Minister . In the elections on April 4 to 5, 1977 in the constituency of Western Jarra, he was re-elected to the House of Representatives with 3,235 votes (66.33 percent). During a government reshuffle in August 1978, he lost his post as Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Jawara IV cabinet to Jerreh Daffeh . He was first transferred to the presidential office as minister of state, before he also lost this office a month later in September 1978 on charges of corruption.

Nevertheless, Yaya Ceesay was re-elected to the House of Representatives for the PPP in the elections on May 4 and 5, 1982 in the constituency of Western Jarra and this time won 4,110 votes (73.84 percent). After these elections, President Dawda Jawara reappointed him as Minister of State in the presidential office. Also in the March 11, 1987 election , he was re-elected as a member of the House of Representatives with 5,160 votes (72.24 percent) in the Western Jarra constituency . He was also re-elected as a member of the House of Representatives in the subsequent elections on April 29, 1992 in the constituency of Western Jarra with 2,629 votes (53.9 percent). After these elections, on April 29, 1992, surprisingly, he was reappointed Minister of Local Government and Land in the Jawara VII cabinet . This ministerial post he held until the fall of President Jawara by the bloodless coup of Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh on 22 July 1994 and the associated takeover of the Provisional leadership Council of the Armed Forces ( Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council ) under Jammeh.

Loss of power and party president of the PPP

In 1997 the Public Assets and Properties Recovery Commission found Ceesay guilty of corruption, after which he was banned from public office for 15 years by the Jammeh government in 2001 . Nevertheless, after the restoration of the last banned Progressive People's Party, PPP ( People's Progressive Party ) in 2001, he became its National President. As such, he supported the decision of the PPP in January 2005, the National Alliance for Democracy and Development NADD ( National Alliance for Democracy and Development ) to join, further comprising the National Democratic Action Movement (Ndam), the National Reconciliation Party (NRP), the People's Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) and the United Democratic Party (UDP). In March 2006, however, he left the NADD against the wishes of the interim chairman Omar A. Jallow together with the former ministers Omar Sey , Bakary Landing Kuti Sanyang and Dembo AS Jatta .

In July 2006, he filed a civil lawsuit against the Assets Management and Recovery Corporation to prevent the sale of one of his properties. However, his lawsuit was dismissed by the High Court in October 2009 . One of his successors as Member of Parliament for the Jarra West constituency was Baba Jobe , whose father Kajali Jobe had in turn supported Ceesay.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia , p. 29, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
  2. ^ David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia , p. 29, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

See also

personal data
SURNAME Ceesay, Yaya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1936 or 1937