LAMIN
BAJO
Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs
CURRICULUM VITAE
SURNAME: Bajo NAME: Lamin DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: November 10th, 1964 in Brikama Western Division, The Gambia NATIONALITY: Gambian SEX: Male FAMILY STATUS: Married, five children (three boys and two girls) ADDRESS: P.O. Box 94322 Riyadh 11693 TEL: (+966 1) 205 21 58 E-MAIL: lkbajo@yahoo.co.uk |
| EDUCATION
STANDARD: G.C.E 'O' LEVEL |
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| PROMOTIONS: |
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| Promoted Gendarme Promoted to AG. Sergeant Promoted to Officer Cadet Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant Confirmed to 2nd Lieutenant Promoted to full Lieutenant Promoted to Captain |
-01/09/84 |
| -01/04/86 | |
| -01/10/87 | |
| -30/09/89 | |
| -01/12/89 | |
| -01/01/92 | |
| -01/10/93 | |
| PROFESSIONAL TRAINING |
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| - Basic Gendarmerie Taining
at Bakau Barracks 1st April 1984 – 31st
August 1984. |
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| - Professional Gendarmerie Taining at Bakau Barracks1st February 1985 – 30th April 1985. | |
| - Gendarmerie Officer's Professional Course at the Ecole Supérieure d' Application des Officiers de la Gendarmerie Royal, Marrakech, Kingdom of Morocco |
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| WORK
EXPERIENCE |
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| - Enlisted into The Gambia National Gendarmerie | - 1st April 1984 |
| - Chief Clerk, Gendarmerie Headquarters | - May 1985 |
| - Commander, Military Police, The Gambia National | - September 1989 |
| - Deputy Commander mobile Gendarmerie | - November 1989 |
| - Third-in-Command, Presidential Guard | - January 1990 |
| - Second-in-commmand, Presidential Guard | - January 1991
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| - Commander Presidential Guard | - January 1994
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| - Commissioner Western Division | -18th August 1994 |
| - Minister of the Interior and Member of the AFPRC (Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council ) | - 31st January 1995
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| - Assigned the portfolio of Religious Affairs | - 29th March 1995
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| - Secretary of State for Youth and Sport | - 6th March 1997
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| - Assigned the portfolio of Religious Affairs | - 30th September 1997 |
| - Secretary of State for Local Government and Lands | - 3rd March 1998 – 3rd May 2000
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| - Assigned the portfolio of Religious Affairs | - 10th March 1998 – 3rd May 2000
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| - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | - 21st October 2002
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INTERNATIONAL
MEETINGS ATTENDED AND SOME OVERSEAS TRIIPS MADE |
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| - Attended the Summit Meeting
of the ECOWAS Committee of nine (9) on Liberia in Abuja in 1995. |
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| -Attended the O.A.U. Summit in Addis Ababa in 1995 | |
| - Attended the O.I.C. Islamic
Minister' Executive Committee's annual Meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
in 1995 and 1999 Cairo, Egypt in 1998. |
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| - Represented the Minister
of External Affairs at the Meeting of Foreign Ministers followed by
a Summit of Heads of the ECOWAS Committee of nine (9) on Liberia where
the Abuja Accord, which brought peace to Liberia was signed. |
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| - Represented the Foreign Minister
at an extraordinary Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of ECOWAS
on Sierra-Leone crisis in Conakry in 1997 |
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| - Attended the Commonwealth
Sports Ministers Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland October1997. |
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- Set as Special Envoy to the Presidents of Senegal, Oman, Mauritania, Nigeria, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau by the President of the Republic of The Gambia.
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| OTHER
RESPONSIBILITIES |
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| - Chairman of the National
Organizing Committee for July 22, Celebrations from 1995 to 3/5/2000. |
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| - Served as a Member of the
Implementation Task Force of the Transitional Programme. |
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| - Member of the Executive Committee
of the O.I.C. Ministers of the Islamic Affairs from 1995 to 3/5/2000. |
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| - Chairman of the National
Coordinating Committee for the Organization of Zone ll Football Tournament
in The Gambia – 1997 |
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| - Chairman of the Zone ll Sports Ministers' Bureeau - 1997/1998. | |
| - Chairman, launching Committee
Jammeh Foundation for Peace April/May 1999. |
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| - Chairman, Congressional Visit
Committee during the visit of the following U.S. black Congressmen:
Hon. James E. CLYBUNN – Chairman Congressional Black Caucus. |
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| HON. EARLF.HILLIARD - Vice
Chairman Congressional Black Caucus HON.BENNIE THOMPSON - Member House
Budget and Agric-Committee - 16th – 19th December 1999. |
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| - Chairman APRC first National
Special Congress Committee, and Congress Oct./Nov.1999. |
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| HOBBIES |
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- Playing soccer, jogging, watching and listening to world news, farming, reading and watching sports in general.
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| DISTINCTION |
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| - General Service Medal | |
| - Long Service and Good Conduct Medal | |
| - Distinguished Service Medal | |
| - The Great NOOT Award ( Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ) | |