A private legal practitioner has again manifested his total disagreement with the Gambia Bar Association following their strike and boycott of the courts. Lawyer Lamin K Mboge, in a letter sent to the Daily Observer, described the action of the Bar Association as disheartening as they are a group of learned people who decided to selfishly hold the administration to ransom.

Below is the full text of the letter:
It is disheartening that a group of learned people, will decide, to selfishly hold the administration to ransom, imagine what would happen, if every decision from a court of law, is met with a strike and boycott of the said court, that will be a premise for chaos, anarchy and lawlessness, a situation that even the bar will not find comfortable.

This government, has shown its respect for law and order by allowing the security agencies and indeed the courts to deal with all legal situations normally without interference, to the extent that even the so called untouchables, have been tried for one form of offence or the other alleged, those found guilty appropriately punished, while those found not guilty, were accordingly sent home, what more can an honest and progressive system require.

Or is this a clamour for impunity, which will lead to a corrupt and inept system? This government should not allow that and I support them. Our Nigerian brothers, and indeed other brothers from the sub-region, go to extra mile, to take up positions, considered unbefitting by our indigenes, and the thank you they get, is unnecessary, malicious and wicked xenophobic attacks, stemming from transferred aggression, by the so-called champions of fairness and human rights, who will relish the opportunity to wreck their nepotic, tribal and oppressive mayhem on the masses!

These self-styled champions are the ones that will in their personal affairs, practice atrocious acts of unfairness, oppression, dishonesty and clandestine immoral behaviour, yet they will roar and push their puns to further their selfish and unpatriotic interests, soliciting the voice of their unsuspecting foreign friends.

The decent lawyers say enough is enough! Let us create a bar that deals with issues and not spurious selective attacks on innocent persons. It is not too late to change, so as to earn the respect of all and sundry, let us in the case of Richards, take advantage of the appeal process, in accordance with law, of course His Excellency the President is also through this medium urged, to temper justice with mercy, ignore all the discordant voices, focus on the well being of the concerned, who from his mien will not subscribe to the unproductive approach adopted by those self styled human right champions, who are only using the situation as a vehicle to their elusive dream. 

Long live the President, long live The Gambia!