Among the 15 MPs called to serve in Bouterse’s cabinet is Alice Amafo. After becoming the youngest minister in Suriname’s history Amafo resigned from her government post in 2007 following allegations of inappropriate use of public funds, when opposition MP Jiwan Sital questioned her over the $13,000 that was spent on celebrating her 30th birthday. Much like the latest president of Suriname, the new Housing and Social Affairs minister has enjoyed an unlikely return to prominence.
With the appointment of Amafo the 64-year-old Bouterse has shown he has lost none of his appetite for controversy. Not only was Bouterse handed down an 11 year prison sentence in absentia by a Dutch court for cocaine trafficking but he is also currently on trail for the 15 murders which comprised Suriname’s December Massacre of 1982.
For more: The Independent
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