JAMMEH NAMES ATTORNEY GENERAL

By Ebrima G. Sankareh Editor- in- Chief

Finally, Gambia's belligerant President Yahya Jammeh has appointed a new Attorney General & Secretary of State for Justice  to head that chequered mini- west African state's rustic Justic Department. He is Principal Magistrate Kebba Sanyang. 

                         President Yahya Jammeh in white robes

Sanyang, 36 and a graduate of Legon University (Ghana) and Foray Bay College, School of Law, Sierraleone, is The Gambia's elevent post 1994 coup Attorney General and Secretary of State for Justice.

He brings to the office a wealth of magisterial -cum judicial experience having travelled the entire country presiding cases at that level. 

What remains to be seen though, is whether unlike his predecessors he too, will be a ceremonial figure pure and simple.What is certain however, is that Attorney General Kebba Sanyang has an herculean task on his sleeves. Numerous suspects in various crimes and incidents are still vegetating behind the harrowing walls of Mile Two Central Prisons and todate, some of them have not been brought before a competent court of law or given the most elemental avenue in a democracy; access to an attorney.