APA-Abuja (Nigeria) A senior official from the government in Banjul has been meeting Ecowas leaders for help over judicial reforms in The Gambia, APA can report on Wednesday.
The head of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Dr Omar Alieu Touray received on Tuesday in Abuja, Nigeria, Mr. Dawda A. Jallow, Gambia’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice as part of the implementation of his country’s judicial reforms.
Mr. Dawda Jallow with a delegation of experts from his country exchanged with President Touray in the presence of the President of the Court of Justice of ECOWAS, Judge Edward Amoako Asante and the ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Dr. Abdel-Fatau Musah, on the intentions of his country to establish a court to try crimes committed during the regime of former President Yahya Jammeh, between 1994 and 2017.
Minister Jallow through this visit formalises Banjul’s request for Ecowas support to implement the judicial reform component of the recommendations of The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC).
The truth commission had uncovered cases of extrajudicial killings, torture, rape and disappearances among other gross human rights violations thought to have been committed at the behest of Mr. Jammeh now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea.
Responding to Minister Jallow, the head of the Ecowas commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, reaffirmed his office’s willingness to accompany The Gambia and other member states in actions and programs that benefit the citizenries and consolidate democracy and deepen human rights in those countries.
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