Barely 24 hours after our editorial highlighting the criminal behaviors of Gambia’s newly appointed Chief Justice Joseph Wowo who was heard negotiating bribes with the disgraced former Minister of Justice, the inevitable Axe has fallen on Wowo. Reports from Banjul confirms that Joseph Wowo has been fired and reportedly arrested. He will be replaced as Chief Justice by a Ghanian Appeal judge.
Wowo’s subsequent firing came allegedly when an audio on You tube was leaked to the press which spread like wild fire on the online media and social media. It was clear that time was not on the side of the corrupt Joseph Wowo. As we highlighted on the editorial the release of the audio was yet to claim more heads in Gambia’s institutionalize corruption headed by none other than the President himself. We argued that it was impossible for all these things to happen within the corridors of power without President Jammeh being aware. One clear example was when the same Joseph Wowo was fired last January and arrested.
The irony that common sense folks are battling with is why and how could President Jammeh fire someone (Joseph wowo) in January for alleged conspiracy, reappoint him within six months and praised him as one of the best non Gambians to serve the country? It is either the President has no clue what he is doing or his government is engulfed in a turmoil to a magnitude he has no idea. It is yet to be seen who replaces Joseph Wowo as President Jammeh can hire and rescind a hire within a few hours. That is how indecisive the President has come through over and again. We are closely watching developments in the small Western African country and will bring you developments as they unfold.
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It has become evident that just like the devil; people are just out to kill and to destroy their fellow man out of jealousy and envy.
The news that former Acting Chief Justice of the Gambia, Joseph Wowo was sacked for soliciting financial bribe from a Gambian-based Dutch businessman in return for a favourable judgment in a land dispute case was totally untrue.
This was outright lies by evil people with the intent to defame and injure the reputation of the former Chief Justice of The Gambia.
This makes it clear that Justice Joseph Wowo was a victim of the machinations of very powerful vicious and wicked interest groups in Gambia including the Gambia bar associations who preferred the appointment of a Gambia to the office of chief justice on that 20th day of June 2013 which Justice Joseph Wowo was sworn in.
As you may already aware, he was granted bail and released based on the investigation of the PANEL OF INVESTIGATION which the courts including the Gambia bar association initially hid during the hearings because they wanted to put him in the ditch as a foreigner.
There was no newspaper, TV or Radio station in The Gambia that reported this bribery allegation because they understood what was in the offing.
Furthermore, Justice Joseph Wowo was never arrested in The Gambia on allegation of bribe. Right now, he has been acquitted accordingly by the supreme court of The Gambia in the judgment delivered on 23rd day of November, 2017.
By Chris Nwanna