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Gambia’s central bank criticised over expat staff policy

Nigerian diaspora organisation calls for reversal of plan to replace non-Gambian employees

Central Bank of The Gambia, Banjul

A Nigerian diaspora organisation has called on the Central Bank of the Gambia to reverse a directive requiring commercial lenders to replace all foreign staff with Gambian nationals.

Abike Dabiri, chair of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, shared a photo of the directive on social media on November 3.

The image showed the second deputy governor of the central bank, Paul Mendy, stating that “all banks are required to adopt a phased approach to replacing existing non-Gambian staff with suitably

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