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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Top lawyer Lamin J Darbo yesterday heaped praise on the Barrow administration for producing an \u201cexcellent\u201d White Paper on the recommendations of the TRRC.<\/p>\n

The government released the White Paper at a public event yesterday and vowed to implement almost entirely recommendations of the TRRC, leading the top lawyer to heap praise on the Barrow administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White Paper is very, very good,\u201d J Darbo said. \u201cA great number of statements were taken and about 392 witnesses testified, majority of them during the public hearing. So, yes, it [the White Paper] is an excellent document.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the 265 recommendations of the truth commission, the government rejected only two. While many have described that as selective justice, Mr Darbo called it \u201clogical\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government position is legally correct if only because the alleged wrongs of NIA DG Ousman Sowe occurred outside the outer limits of the TRRC mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the language of the law,\u201d he argues, \u201cTRRC has no jurisdiction to decide the matter of Ousman Sowe\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the past, specific actions of the state have led many Gambians to believe that the recommendations of the TRRC may not be implemented, however, Mr Darbo said the decision to almost entirely honour the recommendations did not surprise him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a different set of circumstances, really. Whatever the TRRC was mandated to investigate, I believe and understand that many of those things came at a surprise. I wrote an article. And Dr Baba Galleh Jallow also wrote an article about the shadow state. There was a normal government; and then there was also the state that was operating below the radar. And that state that was operating below the radar probably included some ministers, [and] some senior government personnel, but some of the ministers I spoke to, years ago, told me they didn\u2019t know these things were happening in the country\u2026 obviously, there was a shadow state operating. You could say, arguably, that you don\u2019t know anything about it or you were not part of it, but to say that you\u2019ve not heard about it, no, I don\u2019t think that is credible,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

He then explained why accountability is important for the Jammeh-era crimes. \u201cIt is like they said, \u2018Never Again\u2019, but \u2018Never Again\u2019 is rooted in governance as well. You have to look at the governance structure. Government must be held accountable, and government must accept that without accountability, impunity will continue. There must be accountability. If government rejects that, then obviously, we may not go back to full scale Jammehism, but it is indeed possible for some violations to continue and that will negatively impact on our governance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The top lawyer said sedition should not be maintained in Gambian laws, submitting that its continuous existence is not about protecting state secrets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they want to protect government secrets, you can do that in a different way, but the way sedition is actually in the criminal code, it\u2019s not about protecting secrets; it\u2019s about insulting public figures like for example the president, like insulting the judiciary. All of those are categorised as seditious offenses. I don\u2019t think that makes any sense. Sedition needs to come out entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n

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