Ebrima, KB Malamin and the rest

Joseph Joof is perceived to be one of our best
lawyers, but judging from his latest actions, I am
incline to say that he has lost that honour. How on
earth could a Lawyer like Joseph Joof come up with
this nonesense? but are we surprise about this? No
Just have a look at Joseph Joof'S attitude towards his
colleagues in the Gambia Bar Association.  At first,
it was his own blood cousin/brother that he tried to
implicate- Emmanuel Joof-The Human Rights Lawyer. Now
Joseph Joof has gone on the rampage again and Darboe,
his senior learned friend is the next victim.
I think it is a big shame for Joof to come with this
gabbage.
 Section 62(2)(c) of the Constitution states that a
person that person liable for misconduct, negligence,
corruption or improper behaviour by any commission or
committee of inquiry established by law shall not be
qualified for election as President. The onus lies on
Joseph Joof and his wise staff at AG Chambers  to
consult their law books and enquire on what
constitutes "misconduct, negligence corruption
improper behaviour". Based on the findings of the
Commission of Inquiry, all what Darboe was ordered to
do was to REPAY the sum of D34, 000 for failing to
provide legal services. The bottom line in this case
is that Darboe's actions were not fraudulent
since there is no evidence that Darboe had deceived
Social Security in the hope of obtaining a financial
benefit. On that note I totally agree with Ebrima
Sillah's remarks and there is n`t much to add on to,
rather than to say that Joseph Joof is playing with
fire.

If this is the latest gabbage we are getting from the
APRC's Chief Legal Adviser- Joseph Joof, then this
shows that APRC are less popular than what others
perceive them to be. Despite all the talk of
defections, DARBOE's nomination as Presidential
Candidate for the opposition coalition has making
them(APRC) scared. What a shame for a party that wants
to be re-elected. Lets not bother about Joseph Joof's
pronouncements, it will fail and they (APRC) know that
is factual.

Lets therefore focus on our struggle to unseat Jammeh
through the ballot box.


Come October 2001, Gambia must be free as Yahya must
go

Have a wonderful day

Sanusi.






--- Ebrima Sillah <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Dampha,
>
> I find this topic very interesting. I however would
> like to ask few questions on the issue.
>
> (1) Was Darboe a public officer when he apeared
> before
> the Commission?
> (2) As a lawyer are you supose to run after your
> clients to prosecute their case especially when they
> show little interest in it?
> (3) This commission case Joof is now referring
> to...i
> could remember covering it. I could remember also
> Darboe saying to the commission that he processed
> all
> the papers before the courts and what he was waiting
> for from his clients was for them to give him the go
> ahead as well as produce the witnesses. So in a
> situation like this does a lawyer have to keep
> pestering the jude and the courts especially  when
> the
>  accusers have not come up with anything for their
> lawyer to pursue?
> (4) Another important question that i think should
> be
> cleared is (though am not a lawyer)...when a stay of
> execution is before a court can that same issue be
> taken as a case against an accused or a litigant?
>
> If all these questions can be properly answered then
> we will i think get to the bottom of this case.
> Because as far as i could remember(am not sure
> whether
> is correct)..Darboe had appealed against the case.
> But i will be very important too for Darboe himself
> to
> clear the doubt. Am currently out of the country
> covering events in Dakar and the neighbouring
> countries so there is little info i can give on this
> case but hopefully when i return God willing i will
> check my records on this case.
>
> E Sillah.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
> Brother, I got to tell you that this is the biggest
> > provocation I have seen
> > so far in this election season. I NEVER thought
> that
> > I will say that some
> > one was ‘dumber’ than Yaya. But Joseph Joof has
> just
> > broken a record. The
> > irrational rattling coming from this man is simply
> > mind-boggling. This is
> > what the Gambian taxpayer got for giving Joseph
> Joof
> > the opportunity to get
> > a scholarship (during the Jawara regime) to go and
> > study law in Britain at a
> > time that daughters of cabinet ministers like
> > Sheriff Sisay were denied
> > scholarships. At least Yaya can say that he did
> NOT
> > finish his education.
> > All he got was what the ‘poor’ Jawara ‘education’
> > could offer. Joof was
> > given the BEST opportunities one can get. The
> vermin
> > CANNOT say that his
> > parents worked to put him in school in Britain. He
> > used his connections in
> > the Jawara regime to get a scholarship. This
> Wallace
> > Grant he is citing
> > played a part in who Joseph Joof is today.
> >
> > Like you said, this is the surest way the vermin
> can
> > plunge our country into
> > turmoil. Under no circumstances would these
> > elections be stolen. Since the
> > Opposition does not have an agenda and AFPRC/APRC
> > does, I wonder why the
> > cowards are so scared of a fair fight of agendas
> and
> > ideas. Let Yaya run
> > even though there are questions about his
> > citizenship. We are NOT afraid of
> > him. We know the vermin CANNOT be elected if he
> was
> > running for class
> > president in High School. All the AFPRC/APRC
> > apparatus has is character
> > assassination, hate, threats, and lies. Without
> > their AK-47s, they are
> > NOTHING.
> >
> > If they are NOT lying about Jawara, they are
> > threatening people. If they are
> > NOT lying about SM Dibba, they are trying to pit
> > PDOIS against NRP or UDP.
> > That’s all the vermin are good at. Check the
> > Observer (the APRC mouthpiece)
> > and see whether you will see plans about the
> future
> > of our country. All you
> > see is lies upon lies about SM Dibba, Dembo
> Bojang,
> > ‘Jawara is coming home,
> > let us hide under the beds’ and all sorts of silly
> > tales. You go to GRTS,
> > all you hear is ‘defections’. According to the
> > morons, the whole country has
> > ‘defected’ to the APRC. Yet they are scared to
> death
> > to contest elections.
> > Well, they just came up with the silliest one.
> Joof
> > is now taking Yaya from
> > the frying pan to the fire. Banning Darboe is far
> > more catastrophic than
> > banning the Decree 89 politicians. If they think
> > that they were under some
> > pressure to ‘un-ban’ the Decree 89 people, they
> have
> > seen nothing yet.
> >
> > Joseph Joof has gone mad again.
> > KB
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> > list
> > ><[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Re: Joseph Joof and APRC Pulls another
> one
> > >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:24:55 EDT
> > >
> > >Now Joof and his paymaster, Jammeh, have really
> > gone bonkers. Fancy now
> > >spurrious charges/rulings by a kangaroo court
> that
> > is illegal - by all
> > >sense
> > >of definition of that word - suffices to legally
> > rule out Mr Darbo as the
> > >Alliance's presidential candidate. Has the APRC
> > leadership really thought
> > >through the logical implications of what they are
> > trying to hatch here?
> > >Have
> > >they considered the political impasse that will
> > ensue when they try to
> > >stymie
> > >the Gambian people's peaceful and polite efforts
> -
> > through democratic means
> > >-
> > >to ask Jammeh to go? Any astute political
> observer
> > would not fail to
> > >recognise the potentiality of Joof's declaration
> or
> > veiled threat to the
> > >Alliance to draw Gambia into the political
> > territory of violence and
> > >uncertainty. To avert such a scenario, the
> > goofballs "running" our country
> > >should stop using and or invoking these legalese
> > subversions as a
> > >masquerade
> > >to force through their illegal political agenda.
> > >
> > >The APRC, still reeling from the after-effects of
> > the Alliance's Brikama
> > >rally, know fully well that if they don't go
> about
> > subversively meddling
> > >with
> > >the electoral process, their days are definitely
> > numbered; and the
> > >countdown
> > >may have well started last Sunday in Brikama. So
> > they decided to get their
> > >consiglieri -  i.e., a mafiosi legal adviser to
> > make underhand tactics look
> > >legal and normal - Joof to get to work on
> possible
> > means to legally rule
> > >out
> > >the Alliance's endorsed candidature of Mr Darbo.
>
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