I received with glee news from The Gambia that some members of the Judiciary have been dismissed. According to reports, the Chief Justice, Felix Lartey, has been sacked together with Ousman Jammeh, the Master of the Supreme Court, and Haddy Roche, Principal Magistrate at Kanifing. I am gleeful because of the predictability of the morons running the illegal government we have back home. These people can turn the dumbest person into a clairvoyant. When Cheyassin Secka sent us his ill-advised mail saying that he had no part in the firing of judicial officers, we called his lie. We opined that former AGs had been known to orchestrate the sacking of Chief Justices. So it would be a piece of cake to master-mine the sacking of a Judicial Secretary (Isatou-Combeh Wadda). Well, Secka has proved us right again. I am certain that if these firings are true, the deed can be traced back to Secka. This is a clear manifestation of executive tampering with the judiciary. And if the matter is probed further, we will realize that Yaya and his cohorts had flimsy reasons or no reasons at all to mess with the judiciary. This just goes to show that the judiciary is not independent. It is subject to manipulation from criminals like Yaya and Secka. But let us not rush to defend the people that were fired. This is again a case of the beast eating its young. These vermin that were serving Yaya and his illegal regime got what they deserve, if you ask me. Like I said before, we should not feel sorry for these people. Let us stop for a moment and study the roles these people played the past few months. This Felix Lartey is the same man that chaired that bogus commission of inquiry looking into the massacre of our children on April 10 and 11, 2000. This same man stood by and watched government operatives come before the commission and told blatant lies with impunity. Lartey knew (because he is a lawyer) that the commission had the power to compel witnesses to tell the truth and the commission also had the power to punish witnesses for contempt if they told lies. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that witnesses were lying when they said that the children were not killed by life ammunition. Some witnesses deliberately refused to answer questions, citing bogus privileges that should shield them from certain questions. Lartey knew that these privileges were not applicable in these proceedings. But he said nothing. Instead, he aided and abetted the callous regime we have in their enterprise to defraud the Gambian population. What can be more heartless that murdering innocent children and then denying their families justice? Lartey could have done something about this fraud, but he chose to side with the Devil against the people of The Gambia. I am not trying to absolve the non-lawyers that were in that commission, but suffice for me to say that people like Joseph Joof and Felix Lartey had a higher burden to do what is right. In the first place, they should have refused to participate in a futile exercise and force the AG to appoint an independent prosecutor. When Lartey and Joof realized that they did not have the power to punish criminals, they should not have engaged in this time-wasting exercise. So, for Lartey, I say, good riddance. We in the opposition should just prepare ourselves to fight with the next vermin that is going to take Yaya's bait and assist in oppressing our people. Whoever is going to be the next Chief Justice, should be rest assured that we will be on his or her back so long as he or she is taking matching orders from criminals like Yaya and Secka. Moving to Ousman Jammeh, he is also the same man that acted as coroner during the inquest for our slain children. Jammeh has enough legal training to know that the coroner in such proceedings, has the power to proffer charges against the criminals that perpetrated the murder. Knowing that Yaya and Secka will not be happy if he points the finger at their security forces, Ousman Jammeh dodge the bullet by pretending that he was just a powerless coroner who could not recommend for charges to be brought against the criminals. Ousman Jammeh also failed the Gambian people by allowing government officials to come before his court and lie with impunity. He did not deliver on his job. Through the pathologists, Jammeh should have established that the children died from life bullet wounds. Jammeh should have also ensured that the security personnel account for the bullets they fired. By the time the inquest was finished, Jammeh should have been in a position to narrow down the number of suspects and point us to people that could be charged for these heinous crimes. Instead, like Lartey, Jammeh decided to side with the Devil against the Gambian people. When he was faced with blatant evidence (dead bodies of our children) pointing at Yaya and his security forces, Jammeh decided to look the other way and play it safe by pretending that he does not understand the powers he was given by the criminal laws of The Gambia. So, I also say, good riddance. Haddy Roche is also the inexperienced magistrate that colluded with Secka to illegally incarcerate Dumo et al against the wishes of a higher court. While lawyers for Dumo and others were before the high court arguing for the release of the accused persons, it was to Haddy Roche that Secka and his green lawyers ran to in order to get a court order that can keep the accused in jail. Despite that the prosecutor told Roche that she (the prosecutor) does not have enough evidence to even charge these people (a very low threshold), Roche still went ahead and ordered the continued illegal jailing of the accused. When these imbeciles (Roche and Ruggi Thomasi) were pandering to Secka at the expense of Dumo et al, I warned them that the jobs they cherished so much (that would lead them to perform such diabolic duties), were not secured. Few months down the line, the same Secka that Roche was trying to please, is the very person that is going to master-mine her demise. The beast eating its young. Let them all go to Hell. People that do not learn from these episodes and distance themselves from Yaya, are digging their own graves. Yaya only cares about himself and his childish fantasies. He is nothing but a low-life criminal. The sooner people realize that and stop working for him, the better. We are monitoring all the moves of Yaya and his cohorts. When we get rid of Yaya, people will be accountable for their actions. It will not be a defense to say that: "I was just doing my job". All these people that were reportedly sacked by Yaya and Secka, contributed immensely to the numerous human rights violations in the country. I am positive they also engaged in other unsavory (corrupt) activities. But that will come out later. KB Ps: Saul Khan I hope I answered any concerns (if at all you had them) you might have had about Yaya's infantile fantasies. Let us continue the good work and ignore the moron and some of his juvenile behavior. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------