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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 12 Mar 2010 : 19:18:03
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Foroyaa Editorial : Do Justice To Even Your Enemy Then You Will not Deny it to Your Friend
By Publisher on 12-03-10
It is very common in the Gambia for individuals to jubilate because of the down fall of people who may have perpetrated evil against others including their very selves. Foroyaa wish to emphasize that calling for justice to be done to even a person you utterly dislike is the beginning of the birth of a just society. Just societies emerged when human beings felt that revenge leads to the punishing of human beings who may not have committed any crime by virtue of their association with others as we have seen in Nigeria very recently.
Many people would curse those who have perpetrated such heinous murders in Nigeria but would applaud arbitrary action taken against a person they do not like.
Revengeful heart does not discern the weight of transgression and its cost. Hence to them it is just to do wrong to the wrong doer as the price he or she has to pay for his wrong doing even if the punishment exceeds the crime alleged.
Just societies however had seen the need to end revenge by creating Independent and Impartial tribunals and judicial procedures so that justice will be determined without fear or favour; affection or ill will. Gambians should therefore not applaud any long detention without trial no matter who is detained. We need to have a society of rules and institutions. Those who do wrong with impunity until they find themselves at the receiving end should be taught how important freedom of expression is in protecting the liberties of people.
It is important for the public and the courts to protect the human rights of individuals who are in custody.
Just recently, we received a report of a case of a person who is in custody and the date for the hearing of his case was scheduled on a date that would be beyond the time frame established by law for the adjournment of the case of a person in detention.
Section 162 of the Criminal Procedure Code states that “ Before or during the hearing of any case, it shall be lawful for the court in its discretion to adjourn the hearing to a certain time …….provided that no such adjournment shall be for more than 15 clear days, or if the accused person has been committed to prison, for more than seven clear days , the day following that on which the adjournment is made being counted as the first day”
We hope the counsels involved in such cases will continue to fight impunity by appealing denial of bail and exposing such disregard of the dictates of the law.
Source: Foroyaa Online
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 Mar 2010 : 08:20:44
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My worry is that a bulldog beset with a dental worry ;to wit, toothless so and so ..... surely cannot be an effective biter . What you see is what you get , our judiciary is like a castrated bull , see it as a bull in appearance but expecting it to produce as in reproduction in a biological sense would be an exercise in futility. The system is in chains and until this chain is removed we can only moan.  
I accept that the rules are clearly spelt out in the criminal procedure codes of laws , what is clear here and forgive my silliness , as clear as mud ; is that , the Yaya regime pays only lip service to justice. So what all can read is what is written as applicable but what is lacking is application as required. It is simply put paper tiger.Bogus...... |
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