Dear gambia L, The newspaper story below was culled from the Daily Observer March 14,2000 Bensouda out, Secka in The office of the president yesterday announced the removal of Fatou Bom Bensouda as the Attorney General and secretary of state for Justice, two years after her appointment. She is replaced by Pap Cheyassin Secka who until his recent appointment was in private practice and the lawyer for the ruling APRC. The new Attorney General was born in 1941 and was educated in The Gambia and USA where he bagged degrees in Law and Political Science. He returned to the Gambia in 1973 and in 1975 formed the National Liberation Party, NLP, which contested the 1977 elections but lost nation-wide. He then moved to Ghana to practice law. In 1981, he was sentenced to death for his role in the Kukoi coup. The sentence was commuted to life in jail. In February 1991 he was pardoned by President Jawara. Mr Secka, is expected to bring new vigour in the judiciary. Following the 1994 coup Mr Secka became one of the few Gambian intellectuals to openly support the change of government.He is The Gambia's sixth attorney General in five years. MY PERSONAL OPINION (Mori) I honestly think that the appointment of Mr. Secka as an attorney general of the Gambia was a wrong move in such a position that demand a very high level of neutrality in the administration of justice.Considering the fact that he was the defender of a rogue regime and thesame regime appointing him in this position lacks credibility and I believe it is a conflict of interest. What does the law professors think? Mori Kebba Jammeh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------