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Sorry abou some confusion in my last post.
I hope it's a little clearrer here:
Mathew K. Jallow gives the impression that we are about to see a fair trial and
if they heed his advice, we may all sit back and relax:
“As the trial of Fatou Jaw-Manneh begins, it is necessary to remind every
actor on the government side that their duty is to the law; to uphold it and to
preserve it. Any effort to skirt it would result to a loss of confidence in our
judicial system, which could take years if not decades to recover from.”
The implications in the charge sheet are serious. The Government has charged
Fatou Jaw Manneh with SEDITION (close enough to treason).Of course it is
the intention of the accuser to nail the “evidence” of her seditious intentions
onto to her as they nail her on the cross and show that her intentions have
crossed the border between legitimate protest and the sort of incitement that
did/ could threaten security and stability in the country.
To the extent of her wanting to overthrow the elected government by means
other than the ballot – unlike Mr. Jammeh who first came by bullet, she is an
angel, a Joan of Arc and there’s next to nothing that I’ve ever read in the
Gambian press that should ever qualify her for heading a military coup – that
would be first degree treason.
Litanies about mysteriously dead bodies, corruption, nepotism and violations of
human rights occupy most of the opinion columns in the African press.
Apart from some guy who once asked whether anyone was “ready to
rumble” – my acquaintance is with a Gambian media which is sober in it’s
criticism – sometimes harsh criticism, of the type one is likely to find anywhere
in the free world and particularly in some places that are not yet, so free. The
African temperament, when it expresses itself in art or speech tends to be
passionate – even exaggerate - but I don’t think that Fatou, beautiful as she
is, is a Queen Amina or Lady Aisha (r.a.) who raised an army against Imam Ali
(a.s.) (the Battle of the Camel)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Queen+Amina&meta=
First question: What level of confidence do you have in the Judiciary – not in
the qualifications of the judges, but their impartiality? To what extent is the
Judiciary independent of the executive in the Gambia?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?
hl=en&q=the+Gambian+Judiciary&btnG=Search&meta=
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