Plaintiff claims that owing to his nationality, he suffered discrimination by most of
the members of The Gambian Bar to the extent that the then Bar President, Ms
Ubna Farage and the Minister of Justice, Ms. Amie Joof, sometime in the year 2013,
made frivolous allegations of corruption against him which led to the Plaintiff’s
removal from office without prior investigation. The Plaintiff states that he
contested his removal through the security authority who initiated an investigation
into the matter. At the completion of the investigation, the Plaintiff anticipated the
announcement of the outcome by the office of the then President Yahaya Jammeh
which until date has not been announced. The Plaintiff contends that the refusal to
announce the outcome of the investigation is hinged on the realization of the falsity
of the allegations made against him.
According to the Plaintiff, in view of this development, he called for a press
conference to publicly state that the allegations of corruption made against him
were false and that the President erred in removing him from office without
compliance with the proper procedure. The then President, according to the
Plaintiff perceived his action as an affront to his authority so publicly declared that
he must be put in jail.
The Plaintiff avers that the then Minister of Justice, under the instructions of the
then President, filed a frivolous case against him on allegations of abuse of office
and false information under sections 90, 112, 102 and 106 (i) (d) of the Criminal
Code, vol iii Revised Laws of The Gambia.
The Plaintiff states that while he was in office, he was reliably informed by some
staff of the Judiciary of compilation of documents that was done in the Judiciary
without recourse to the proper procedure. Plaintiff went on to say that upon
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