In so far as it effectively collapsed both Legislative, and Judicial authority in the Executive, the Constitution allocates public power in a rather disturbing manner. When the mechanism of government is perversely designed, what government produces cannot but be perverse. For example, the Constitution permits His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh (the Professor) to fire every single elected APRC member of the National Assembly (NA) if he so wishes. He is only required to expel the elected member from the APRC. The power is actual, not merely theoretical (see section 91(1)(d)), and the President will use it if he felt sufficiently threatened by his party’s parliamentarians. Any such action may trigger a constitutional crisis, and a possible political struggle, but with national power so heavily centralised, the bet should be on the Professor emerging victorious.

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