After 3Decades Jarra Gets Cabinet Seat

                                                 

The people of Jarra welcomes the appointment  Mr Seedy K. M. Keita as Minister for Trade, Industry, Regional Integration, and Employment. Seedy Keita,s cabinet appointment was well received in all the Jarra Forums across the globe. There are barricades of congratulations pouring in from  all the  Jarrankas wishing Keita a successful tenure of office. 

It is nearly three decades that anyone is appointed as minister from Jarra. The last Jarranka to serve in the cabinet was veteran politician Alhajie Yaya Ceesay who served several years as minister untill the PPP government led by Late Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara was over throwen  by military in 1994 which brought in Yahya Jammeh who served over two decades during which no Jarranka serves as minister. Base on these facts the entire Jarra is happy with President Adama Barrow for giving their son the opportunity to serve in his cabinet. 

Many are happy and confidence that Seedy Keita will deliver as expected base on his pass records as hardworking, dicipline , honest and development orientated. The Pakalinding borned appointee is known for his support in community projects including projects of Pakalinding Diaspora and UK Jarra Association,s many development initiatives.

Mr Keita holds a double Masters degree in Business Administration and Financial Management from Edinburgh Business School, Herriot-Watt University.  He recently had a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Strategy from – Said Business School, the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.  

Mr Keita, until his appointment as Minister, was Director Finance Department at the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector in Jeddah from 2011 to date. He first joined the Corporation in 1999 as a Young Professional Core Team Member and rose through the ranks.  In The Gambia, Mr Keita worked at the Accountant General’s Department and The Gambia Civil Aviation Authority, where he held various positions to the level of Chief Accountant before he left for a World Bank-funded Health Project in 1998.