‘How Yahya Jammeh is plotting to use Nigerian lawyers to remain in office’

The Gambian Bar Association has alleged that President Yahya Jammeh was planning to use Nigerian lawyers to remain in office after losing the Presidential election.

The association said Jammeh was plotting to bring in Nigerian legal practitioners.

The association also said it has no confidence in the Gambian Chief Justice, Emmanuel Fagbenle, who is a Nigerian.

“There is a total breakdown of the rule of law and the Chief Justice has been known to carry out executive directives in matters of the state interest,” the Gambian Bar said.

It added, “Whenever there is an intention to constitute a Supreme Court, he (Fagbenle) and the Attorney General would handpick qualified lawyers or judges from commonwealth countries who would visit the Gambia for a two-week duration and are appointed by the President for that purpose to dispose of cases.

“It is clear that Jammeh did not expect to lose the election and did not deem it fit to have a sitting permanent Supreme Court. This has inured to his benefit for the last two years during which several cases have sat unheard by a Supreme Court. Case in point is the appeal by the United Democratic Party against the conviction of its party leaders.”

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