GNOC appoints Bakary Jammeh as CDM for Birmingham 2022

0
240
Bakary K Jammeh , The Chef de Mission for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games

The Gambia National Olympic Committee, GNOC, has confirmed the appointment of Bakary K Jammeh as the Chef de Mission for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games scheduled to take place from 28th July to 8th August 2022.

Jammeh, who also the 1st Vice President of the Gambia Football Federation, GFF, will lead Team Gambia to the games that is expected to see Gambian athletes winning medals.

The GNOC has already started preparations ahead of the games identifying judo, athletics, beach volleyball, basketball 3×3, boxing and for the first time, para powerlifting and wheel chair basketball 3×3 to represent The Gambia.

Previous articleEgregious Political And Moral Blunder
Next article‘I almost got frustrated when I first came back … today I’m proud’ – female migrant returnee
Mr. Sainey M.K. Marenah is a Prominent Gambian journalist, founding editor The Alkamba Times and formerly head of communications at the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) and Communications and PR Consultant for The Gambia Pilot Program, under Gamworks. Mr. Marenah served as the Social media Strategist and Editor at Gambia Radio and Television Services. He is also the Banjul Correspondent for Voice of America Radio. Sainey is a human rights and developmental journalist who has carved a strong niche particularly in new media environments in the Gambian media industry. Mr. Marenah began his career as a junior reporter with the Point Newspaper in the Gambia in 2008 and rose through the ranks to become Chief correspondent before moving to The Standard Newspaper also in Banjul as Editorial Assistant and head of News. He is a household name in the Gambia’s media industry having covered some of the most important stories in the former and current government. These include the high profile treason cases including the Trial of Former military chiefs in Banjul in 2009 to 2012. Following his arrest and imprisonment by the former regime of President, Yahya Jammeh in 2014, Marenah moved to Dakar Senegal where he continues to practice Journalism freelancing for various local and international Media organization’s including the BBC, Al-Jazeera, VOA, and ZDF TV in Germany among others. He is the co-Founder of the Banjul Based Media Center for Research and Development; an institution specialized in research and development undertakings. As a journalist and Communication Expert, focused on supporting the Gambia's transitional process, Mr Marenah continues to play a pivotal role in shaping a viable media and communications platform that engages necessary tools and action to increase civic participation and awareness of the needs of transitional governance to strengthen the current move towards democratization. Mr. Marenah has traveled extensively as a professional journalist in both Europe, Africa and United States and attended several local and international media trainings.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here