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GMC Calls For Immediate Investigation Into The Judiciary
Tuesday, 07 June 2011 12:37
Recent reports, supported by Nigerian media revelations disclosed that the Director of Special Litigation Daniel O. Kulo
was suspended for two years by the Nigerian Bar Association Legal Practitioners' Disciplinary Committee on unethical grounds, including serious malpractice. Considering that the judiciary is the bastion of hope for the ordinary person, and in the interest of protecting the dignity and sanctity of the Halls of Justice, GMC calls on The Gambia Government to immediately suspend Daniel O. Kulo pending a thorough investigation into his background. The Gambian judiciary
must not be permitted to be a sanctuary for those who are dishonoured and disgraced by their own country's institutions. We have always maintained that no country would normally send its best human resource in aid of another country in the name of technical assistance. For some countries, this is a strategic foreign policy tool. Rather it seeks to improve the human resource capacity of that country, inter alia, as it equips them with sufficient experience and know-how, reabsorbed them into their public service system, while using our country as guinea-pig. National self-reliance and the massive development and promotion of indigenous capacity are the best guarantors of independence and sovereignty. We must diligently put to maximum use what we already have – Gambian legal brains in abundance - and by giving them more incentives; nothing less of what we are prepared to accord to their non Gambian counterparts. The Gambia has sufficient legal brains to substantially administer our justice delivery system by ourselves. Flamboyant exhibition of professional arrogance, malpractice and impropriety must not be supported in the administration of justice. It is time to give priority to our own qualified citizens, retaining them and restore sanity to the judiciary. This is the only way that the government could dispel the widely held notion of hiring what many call legal mercenaries. Our policy on regional integration must equally serve our real national development priorities. It is in interest of consolidating Gambian-Nigerian bilateral relations that Gambians do not perceive and relate to Nigerians with negative disposition by virtue of the alleged misdeeds of some Nigerians in the service of The Gambia Government. GMC acknowledges that Nigeria is a great nation, and a great friend of The Gambia. We must nurture this bilateral amity to grow stronger exponentially.
Notwithstanding, once again The Gambia Government's credibility as a serious stakeholder in the administration of justice. To restore some credibility, Daniel O. Kulo, Director of Special Litigation, Ministry of Justice should be suspended and investigated in that he was found conclusively guilty by Nigeria for very serious professional crimes prior to his employment by The Gambia. I am record to have made a similar public call six years ago, when former judge Madubuchi Azubuik Paul was implicated in a Gambian Parliamentary Committee Report regarding AMRC. Failure to heed this call, The Gambia Government would be openly admitting to Gambians and the whole world that it's justice delivery system stinks. GMC further calls on The Gambia Government to conduct an immediate comprehensive intelligence investigation and review into the background of all other foreign judges, magistrates and prosecutors under its direct contractual employment. The Gambia Government's civil and public service must not be a dumping ground for despised or inferior foreign human resource. We believe that The Gambia deserves better!!!
Wandifa Kelefa Sanneh
For: GMC National Secretariat
GMC Information Center, Kerr Serigne
7th June 2011
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Mandinka “-when head of fish get rotten...”; such can only show yaya’s own calibre; for he knows little himself, EXCEPT, lies & greed, fabrications, falsifications, il-legal-thuggery & murder; slowly but SURELY, his illegal mercenaries set to play havoc on innocent humans continued to be unravelled; we’ll GET there sooner;
Are we making enough noise? The Gambia Bar Association made a half-heated attempt to boycott proceedings only when their members started getting affected.
This culture of silence will only sink us in oblivion from which we would take years to emerge.
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