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Published by: The Fatu Network
A proposed US$48 million forensic laboratory project once hailed as a game-changing investment for The Gambia’s security and justice system is back in the spotlight after Interior Minister Abdoulie Sanyang told lawmakers there is no trace of the project within government records.
The laboratory, signed in 2017 by former Interior Minister Mai Ahmad Fatty, was presented as a state-of-the-art DNA and forensic science centre that would have been one of the largest security-sector projects in the country’s history.
Human rights activist and Director of the Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice, Madi Jobarteh, is now urging the National Assembly to summon both men to explain how such a major national project could vanish without a trace.
The mystery leaves uncomfortable questions about accountability, record-keeping, and whether a potentially transformative development opportunity was allowed to die before it ever got off the ground.
