Gambia News : Gambian leader sacks the Chief Justice
Jun 09,2009 00:00
by
Anna
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Monday terminated the services of
the Chief Justice of the Gambia, Justice Abdou Kareem Savage, and
replaced him with Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim, a Nigerian born judge
who had in the past served as the President of the Gambia Court of
Appeal.
Justice Savage was the first and only Gambian legal practitioner to have ever occupied this prestigious position. He was appointed in February 2006, shortly after the unceremonious sacking of his predecessor, Justice Stephan Alan Brobbey, a Ghanaian judge.
In a related development, the Gambian leader also appointed Justice Ester Ota, a Nigerian judge as the President of the Gambia Court of Appeal.
Justice Otta rose to prominence in April 2001 after she sentenced Musa Suso, a prominent ruling party Member of Parliament to a jail term of eight years on drug charges preferred against him by the state law office.