Gambian teenager detained in Senegal for illegal fishing to be released after the intervention of Gambia’s Foreign ministry. 

Ousman Ceesay was earlier this month arrested by the Senegalese Parks and Wildlife Officers for allegedly illegally fishing in a protected zone of the Senegalese territorial waters.

“After due consultations and negotiations [with] the competent Senegalese authorities, [they] have agreed to release Mr. Ousman Ceesay on 3rd November 2020 subsequent to the fulfilment of all legal and administrative formalities to grant effect to his release.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad extends profound thanks and appreciation to the competent Senegalese authorities for their understanding and cooperation, and in seeing to it that all administrative and legal requirements have been undertaken within a short duration to facilitate the release of Mr. Ceesay back to his family in The Gambia,” the foreign ministry spokesman Saikou Ceesay said in a statement.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba