Food Safety and Quality Authority (FSQA) of The Gambia has a new director general and a new board chairman.
The new Director-General Mr. Momodou Bah who has been tapped new director general replaces Zainab Jallow, who is now redeployed to the Ministry of Energy as Deputy Permanent Secretary Number three.
Momodou Bah was a former director at the National Public Health Laboratories. He previously worked with the International Trypanosomiasis Centre now renamed West Africa Livestock Innovation Centre (WALIC).
He was also once a director of Planning at the Ministry of Health and later he became a director of Licensing Quality Control at the Gambia Tourism Board.
Mr. Bah was later moved to Spain as a diplomat, Destination Manager under the Gambia Tourism Board.
Meanwhile, Dr. Amadou Sowe, has been promoted to the role of the new board chairman of the Authority also replaces Alieu Badara Loum, the former Board Chairman who resigned due to mass sackings believed to be single handedly engineered by Zainab and her inner circles.
Zainab’s replacement came barely months after an unease working relationship with her staff members who petitioned her in October 2019 for allegations of corruption, abuse of office and financial mismanagement.
Following these allegations, a leaked report investigation conducted by an independent panel and accessed by the public revealed that the former Director-General Zainab Jallow been found wanting in most of the allegations levelled against her by the FSQA staff.
In January 2020, letters signed and presented to twenty-eight staff indicated that they are sacked from the Authority for signing a petition against their director. In February 2020, two additional staff salaries were unceremonious stopped and up to date they are not receiving salaries from the Authority.
