Fatoumatta Jallow-Tambajang, former vice president of The Gambia, has spoken for the first time about her sacking.

She said she was fired from her post over a letter that officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed she wrote.

Jallow-Tambajang alleged that some officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs schemed against her. The current vice president, Ousainou Darboe, was the then Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time of her sacking.

She was accused of writing a letter to the United Nations to pressure President Barrow to hand power over to her after three years but the former vice president said it was a fabrication.

“I am happy that President Barrow has known the truth. He stood by the truth and he invited me in August. We spoke about the letter and it was never a letter I wrote,” Jallow-Tambajang told Gambia Times.

She denied writing a letter to the UN but rather to the United Nations Environment Programme for a Gambian seeking a job at that agency.

“I want to clarify this to the nation that this letter of recommendation I sent to UNEP through the Foreign Affairs was tampered with, recommendations removed and replaced with a note that I knew nothing about. I investigated what went wrong and discovered the truth and those involved in it, but President Barrow knew this,” she said.

The former vice president said she has forgiven all those who have wronged her.

“People have fabricated lies against me, but I forgive them. I know those who fabricated those lies, but I have forgiven them as Muslims,” she said.

Jallow-Tambajang was sacked as the vice president of The Gambia in 2018 by President Barrow during a major cabinet reshuffle which also saw the sacking of three ministers.