The Gambia’s judiciary is increasingly making a travesty of itself.
After two years of botched trial, a high court finally allowed Bob Keita to breathe freedom after it was proved by Science that he was not responsible for forcefully fathering a child.
The young man had been calling Mile II home for more than 24 months for a crime he did not commit.
But that’s possible in law!
What should not be possible in law is the framing of an innocent person or persons only to get away with it!
When Bob Keita was finally freed, many rights-thinking people expected that the State would quickly get down to work, to get to the root of the rape of Sainabou Mbye’s sister.
You see, we’re talking here of rape and false prosecution of an innocent person.
After, realizing that Bob is neither the father of the child in the midst of all this nor Sainabou Mbye’s sister’s boyfriend, the State was expected to act fast.
However, it would seem it’s still business as usual at the Judiciary.
Indeed, laws are formulated to protect and they should not be used against innocent people.
Since Bob was vindicated weeks ago, nothing remarkable was heard from the AG Chambers or the courts.
And now, Sainabou Mbye and her sister will also escape accountability for the false charge against Bob.
Sainabou has also been extricated from the manslaughter charge brought against her for the death of the child at the core of all this.
How serious is our Judiciary?