{"id":90264,"date":"2025-11-16T18:55:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/amie-bensouda-critiques-national-assembly-oversight-failures"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:09:38","slug":"amie-bensouda-critiques-national-assembly-oversight-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/amie-bensouda-critiques-national-assembly-oversight-failures","title":{"rendered":"Amie Bensouda Critiques National Assembly Oversight Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Former Janneh Commission Lead Counsel Amie Bensouda has told the National Assembly\u2019s Special Committee that lawmakers failed to fulfill their constitutional oversight duty after the commission submitted its findings.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Appearing before the committee on Thursday, Bensouda said the legislature should have monitored how the executive implemented the recommendations of the Janneh Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say the National Assembly failed in its responsibility to supervise the executive,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the commission\u2019s recommendations were designed to guide The Gambia\u2019s transition process and should have been reviewed and followed up on by lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recommendations were what was supposed to help the transition, help the country correct its course, and avoid the mistakes that were made,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Bensouda further noted that there was no parliamentary oversight on the government\u2019s white paper or on subsequent actions taken by the executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no accountability as far as the white paper was concerned,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, many of the issues that are now being revisited\u2014such as the management and disposal of recovered assets\u2014should have been resolved years ago through proper National Assembly supervision. \u201cInvestigating whether vehicles were properly sold six or seven years ago, for me, that\u2019s a distraction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging that the government accepted most of the recommendations for implementation, Bensouda stressed that the real failure lay in the lack of follow-up. \u201cIn terms of following up and implementing those recommendations, there has been a major failure,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Former Janneh Commission Lead Counsel Amie Bensouda has told the National Assembly\u2019s Special Committee that lawmakers failed to fulfill their constitutional oversight duty after the commission submitted its findings. Appearing before the committee on Thursday, Bensouda said the legislature should have monitored how the executive implemented the recommendations of the Janneh Commission. 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