Gambia: Ex-Attorney General, ex-Solicitor General confined to house arrest Published on:Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Ex-Justice Minister Jobarteh and Ex-Solicitor General Jammeh The former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Lamin Jobarteh, and former solicitor general and legal secretary, Pa Harry Jammeh, were today confined to 24 hours house arrest after being granted bail by the Banjul Magistrates’ Court at a sum of 500, 000 Dalasi each with two Gambian sureties. The two former top judiciary officials in the regime of dictator Yahya Jammeh are ordered to stay indoors 24 hours daily. They are facing 10 criminal counts ranging from conspiracy to defeat justice, to abuse of office, official corruption, destroying evidence and neglect of official duty, contrary to the Laws of The Gambia. Among the charges, the two former officials of the dictatorship are accused of conspiring to defeat justice to wit, and jointly forced Justice Joseph Wowo, the acting Chief Justice of The Gambia to leave the country in a move to drop or suppress criminal charges against Amie Bensouda and other staff members at the Judiciary. The former Attorney General was accused among other things, of seizing about one hundred hectares of land from one Mustapha Kanyi and the Toubanding women’s garden which he annexed to his farm, an arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of Mustapha Kanyi and the women of Toubanding. The ex-Solicitor General was also accused among other things of destroying unspecified amounts of cannabis and bullet exhibits dated back in 2009 from the Mansa Konko and Basse Magistrates’ Courts without authority and due regard to possible appeals that could arise from the decisions relative to the said exhibits.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:25:42 +0000
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