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Death penalty for drug dealers, rapists and armed robbers
Tuesday, 05 October 2010 23:27
The National Assembly in Gambia has ratified and passed into law three important bills
that would now provide for the death penalty in cases of trafficking involving hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin, rape and armed robbery.The three bills were presented to deputies by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Edward Gomez.
The bills, according to GRTS report, underline government’s uncompromising stands on drugs. They seek to amend some section of the drugs control act, trafficking in persons act and the criminal code.
“The bill seeks to meet the negative development related to drug trafficking in the board by providing for sentences which will serve as a deterrent to anyone wishing to use this country either as a transit point or destination point for hard drugs,” the statement reads.
The drugs amendment bill now stipulates that convicted drug offenders found in possession of more than 2kg of cocaine and heroin can be sentence to death.
Equally, convicted rapists and armed robbers may also be sentence to death.
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As a matter of fact, this law is clearly one that came into being on the directive of Jammeh. If you know how things work here, you will see what I am saying, especially at this building we call national assembly, which is Yahya Jammeh's bantabaa...
The fact is that this is all part of the man's desperate ploy to convince the world that he is not involved in drug.
Do you expect yahya jammeh or anybody in his good books to be caught by this law? Ensa Badjie would never have been a police chief in the first place.
These kind of nonsenses are what makes me feel like dying when I think of being a Gambian; with a man as trecherous as the one we have in charge... God, some day all this will be over!
" Hey Joe" {where you going with that gun in your hand}
Joe, we sometimes comit crimes of passion. Then when the emotion subsides...we show remorse and regret.
The French in partcular make such a plea at court.
Drug addicts comit crimes to feed there addiction...It costs a lot to feed such a habit.
It is a well proven fact that such offenders can come back into society and contribute there quota...if rehabilitated.
Hanging in these cases..to me is not the punishment that fits the crime.
And yes I am drinking tea...but not in London.
Should I turn the other cheek....and forget my responsibility and enjoy my comfort?
You decide.
Anyway....back to reality.On the ground in Gambia we have people that owe their positions to Jammeh and are working hard to be seen to be working hard.....got it?
All these fake awards and bogus titles are just people jumping out of their skins to please the Emperor.We got diplomats out there who, instead of looking out for the interest of the country, task themselves with finding organizations and institutions to come over and bestow awards and titles to Emperor Jammeh.Clearly, our lawmakers do not want to be outdone in the race to look busy. One wonders if this obsession with harsh punishment is an attempt to be in line with Jammeh's No Compromise attitude towards every problem in The Gambia today.
To simply Hang someone maybe a deterrent and their are some crimes especially against children....that "may" be considered a final act.
But does it not say NOTHING for The Gambia that it will kill to cover its failure to move to the International recognised human rights position...
Such a ruling may have International implications for trade and tourism.
I have expressed my concern to The British government at our hands on complicity through DFID
I hang my head in shame.
This is not development.. it to me smacks of barbarity.
I protest.
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