Mr. President, Consider Appoint a Gambia-Born Director of Public Prosecutor!

By Alagi Yorro Jallow.
The pernicious dynamics of foreign “mercenary” lawyers and judges that pervaded the rule of law and processes in our justice system decades ago have infected the judicial process and created a vacancy crisis, and discouraged the appointment and indigenization of Gambian Chief prosecutor in our legal system.
New Gambia has not yet broken barriers across the nation or reshaped our judiciary to look more like “Gambianization” by vastly expanding the indigenization and experiences of Gambian men and women who enforce our laws and deliver justice.
The Gambian people cannot wait to begin dismantling the colonial judicial legacy of foreign lawyers and judges in our new judicial system. For the first time in our judicial history, we must indigenize the appointment of a Gambia-born Director of Public Prosecutor because, in the Second Republic, we have unchained the judicial legacy of appointing foreign chief justices.