Yankuba Drammeh

Lieutenant General Yankuba Drammeh is a Gambian military officer who is the current Chief of the Defence Staff of the Gambia.

At the time of the 1994 coup d'état, executed by Yahya Jammeh, Drammeh was a Second Lieutenant in the Gambian Army.

Like many other officers not involved in the coup, he was detained in the Mile II Central Prison but later released and restored to his previous role.

[1] Drammeh was a brigadier general and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff prior to his dismissal from the army by Yahya Jammeh on 30 November 2009.

[2] On 29 June 2015, Drammeh was again reinstated as a Major General and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff, filling a role that had been left vacant since the dismissal of Saikou Seckan in 2013.