Your take is noted YJ but I am looking more at the attitude of the Judiciary to the presumption of innocence in the context of pretrial detention. Mambuary is not charged with any offence and yet subjected to the outrage of a D15 million bail bond. You are right that the South African Judiciary is fiercely independent. If indeed Mambuaray was headed for the World Bank as suggested by some, he is unlikely to publicly say anything about Professor Jammeh so I think his detention was more vindictiveness than anything LJDarbo ________________________________ From: Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, 22 February 2013, 20:39 Subject: Re: [G_L] BAIL IN GAMBIA AND SOUTH AFRICA LJD, I am quite surprised that you are comparing the two situations. You as a legal mind probably knows better. For the heck of a debate, here is my take... In south Africa, we do not have lawlessness like in the Gambia. Besides, Mamburay Njie was part of Jammeh's gang and he knows too much about Jammeh's regime to be freed. Jammeh has to keep him in jail, because once he escapes, he will be out talking about the regime. Doesn't that sound like it?? Happy friday! Yero ________________________________ Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:33:10 +0000 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: [G_L] BAIL IN GAMBIA AND SOUTH AFRICA To: [log in to unmask] OSCAR PISTORIOUS South African South African sports icon killed a human being charged with premeditated murder BAIL SET AT Sterling £73,000(estimated) MAMBURAY NJIE Gambian Cabinet Minister / senior civil servant (until recently) allegations unknown/unspecified/speculative charged with no offence BAIL SET AT Sterling £300,000(estimated) Any suggestions/reactions on the bail regime in The Gambia? LJDarbo ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤