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Lawyer Mbodge Attacks Bar Association
Tuesday, 11 October 2011 00:02
(JollofNews) – In a completely dramatic move, Lawyer Lamin K. Mbodge, a private legal practitioner and
senior member of the Gambia Bar Association (GBA), has denounced the move taken by the Bar to boycott courts calling it disheartening. He questioned why a group of learned people will decide to selfishly hold the administration of justice to ransom'. Mbodge, a human rights lawyer, who himself is standing trial for ''making false documents without authority'', coupled with ''false swearing'' and ''uttering false documents'' further stated said; ''if every decision from a court of law is met with a strike and boycott , that will be counterproductive as it will lead to chaos and
even lawlessness''. In a further surprise move, Mbodge seem to have backed the authorities by saying that the Gambia government ''has shown its respect for law and order by allowing the security agencies and indeed the courts to deal will all legal situations normally without interference''.
He then asked if the Bar's call for boycott ''Is a clamour for impunity which will lead to a corrupt and inept system?'This government should not allow that and I support them''.
In another move that will surely would further anger the Bar, Mbodge even commended the much criticized Nigerian judicial officers, for '' taking up positions considered unbefitting by the indigenes''. He then contented that instead of a good thank you all what the Nigerians get was ''unnecessary, malicious and wicked xenophobic attacks, stemming from transferred aggression by the so-called champions of fairness and human rights who will relish the opportunity to wreck their nepotist, tribal and oppressive mayhem on the masses''.
According to Lawyer Mbodge, these ''self-styled champions'' are the very ones ''that will in their personal affairs, practice atrocious acts of unfairness, oppression, dishonesty and clandestine immoral behavior''.
Mbodge ended by calling for the formation of a new Bar by ''decent lawyers'', who should deal with issues and not spurious selective attacks on innocent persons''. The lawyer's comment came at a time when the Bar, furious with the government for the ''unfair jailing'' of legal fellow Moses Richards, had threatened to stay out from the courts in protest. Mbodge's comments, coupled with an alleged begging for mercy by Moses Richards himself have left concerned Gambians wondering what is tearing the legal community apart.
Written by Abdoulie John
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Comments
Give us a break mr Mboge. You are up to something. Peharps looking for a better Job.
Now that Moses Richard has been released, should evey prisoner write to the president and appeal like moses did to gain their freedom?
"These self-styled champions are the ones that will in their personal affairs, practice atrocious acts of unfairness, oppression, dishonesty and clandestine immoral behaviour, yet they will roar and push their puns to further their selfish and unpatriotic interests, soliciting the voice of their unsuspecting foreign friends"
Words oF Lawyer Mboge.
What is tearing them apart is evident. The so called laws that jailed Moses Richards has jailed many people in the country from all works of life and as they are doing this strike people are on trial charged with the same or similar offences. Where was the Bar? It was laughable when they said they are there for the public. At the moment they are just making a mockery of themselves to be honest. And this includes Mbodge himself. Why did he not speak out since then but now?
One Gambian (in the name of Sajo Boyang if I could remember) wrote an apt article about the Bar sometime ago. They should have learned from that article since then. What Sajo said is exactly what is happening right now.
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