Lamin Saine

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Lamin Saine
Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency
In office
2012 –9 December 2013
President Yahya Jammeh
Nominated National Assembly Member
Assumed office
29 March 2012
Appointed by Yahya Jammeh
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Political party APRC

Lamin K. Saine is a Gambian politician and former security official who is one of five nominated members of the National Assembly appointed by President Yahya Jammeh following the 2012 parliamentary election. Saine also served as Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2013.

National Assembly of the Gambia

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Early career

Saine has served in the Gambian Army at the rank of Captain. In 2005, he published a novel, Ripped Apart, which was launched by Amadou Scattred Janneh, the information minister. [1]

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National Intelligence Agency

Saine was a member of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) prior to his appointment to the National Assembly and during it. He has claimed that he was trained by MI6 and the FBI. On 16 November 2012, Saine was appointed as NIA Deputy Director-General. He served as the NIA Director-General from 2012 to 9 December 2013. [2] In 2013, he was involved in the arrest and detainment of journalist Adboulie John. He was also the principal witness for the Gambian government in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) hearing on the murder of Deyda Hydara in 2011. [3] In 2014, former NIA analyst Ousman Bojang accused Saine of withholding information about the March 2006 coup attempt from Jammeh in order to remove his then-superior, Daba Marena. [4]

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Political career

Saine was nominated as a National Assembly Member following the 2012 parliamentary election, as one of the five NAMs nominated by the President. Speaking in the National Assembly in December 2016, during the 2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis and ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia, Saine argued that internal disputes ended by foreign intervention tended to end in bloodshed. He said, "If you look at what happened in Liberia with foreign intervention, Syria and even in the Gambia during the 1981 failed attempted coup when foreign forces came, a lot of people lost their lives and properties." [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Ripped Apart by Rtd Capt Lamin K Saine". Gambian Writers. 9 March 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Capt. Saine Removed As DG of the NIA". Foroyaa. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2017– via All Africa.
  3. ↑ "Criminal Minds in Jammeh's Regime: NIA Officer Lamin Saine". Gainako. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Ex-NIA intelligence analyst Ousman Bojang has accused his boss Captain Lamin Saine of withholding coup plot intel report". Askani Senegambia. 6 December 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Bah, Muhammed S. (30 December 2016). "NAMs call for peaceful way of resolving present political impasse". Foroyaa. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
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