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OP insists AG Ceesay’s redeployment not meant to interfere in NAO

Auditor General says redeployment was a plot to remove him

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Ex-AG Tambadou tells enquiry no evidence of wrongdoing will be found

Opposition condemn Auditor General’s forceful removal

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