Saturday 18 February 2017
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Jammeh Tenure Extension : What I Found Inside The Gambian Constitution
Jammeh Tenure Extension : What I found in the Gambian constitution
A last minute "Malangaring" or should I call it Joker has given a constitutional lifeline to the embattled President of Gambia , Yayah Jammeh , the self acclaimed trado medical healer recently lost his countries presidential elections to a former real estate agent in the west African state .
Few days ago the Gambian ruler declared a state of Emergency which was approved by the countries National Assembly, and few hour ago the BBC reported that the Gambia's National Assembly has extended the tenure of the President by 90 days.
Curiously I went in search of the Gambian constitution to unearth where the Parliament derived its powers to extended the tenure of a President.
After about 30 minutes of going through what looked like a duplicate if the Nigerian constitution I realised that Buhari who himself have never conceded an election to his opponent no matter how transparent the elections were, Senegal who have been showing off its obsolete Military hardware in display of Force to its tiny neighbor and the ECOWAS have all blindly fallen into a legal trap set by Jammeh.
They missed an opportunity to despatch judges to the Gambian supreme court to speedily adjudicate on the election matter as required by section 49 of the Gambian constitution which would have cleared any obstacle to the inauguration of President -elect Adama Barraw .
Section 34 subsections 1- 5 provides that the President can declare a state of emergency and such declaration will subsist for 90 days provided it was approved two third by the National Assembly of the Gambia .
The joker in declaring the state of emergency at this time is in section 99 subsection 2 of the Gambian constitution which deals with the circumstances under which the tenure of the National Assembly can be extended.
It States that ; Any time the Gambia is at War or a state of emergency is declared , the National Assembly supported by a vote of not less than 2 /3 of its members can extend the life of the Assembly by 3 months at a time.
But not more than a total of 1 year under this subsection.
This subsection appeared innocuous to the Gambian President elect until I read section 63 subsection 6 which deals with the office of the President and realised ECOWAS needs to recheck their strategy if the Gambian stalemate will end without Bloodshed and a violation of the Gambian constitution.
Section 63(6) states that
When the tenure of the National Assembly is extended for any period in accordance with section 99(2) the tenure of office of the President shall be extended for the same period.
What this simply means is that except the ECOWAS quickly provides judges for the Gambian supreme court to quickly adjudicate on Jammeh's petition and quickly dispose or uphold it he may be in office for another one year without violating any provision of his countries constitution.
Africa and the impoverished people of west Africa do not deserve another war, Nigerian soldiers have already seen enough in the last 8 years, we already have too many military widows I don't think we should make more widows in Gambia.
Jammeh and his gang in the Gambia also need to understand that leadership is not by force, democratic irresponsibility has its consequences they must be willing to put the interest of their own people above their ego and carnal desires, for decades Africa have been defined by despots and the wars they foolishly invite , we don't need a war at a time our economy is in coma, every bomb exploded can build a school somewhere in Africa , A Russian made AK47 can fully stock a local school library with all the book it needs , the cost of sending military ships and maintaining them can be of great help to our dilapidated infrastructure.
For Ages we have traded our meagre earnings for weapons from the west which we have consistently used to kill ourselves and destroy the continent this must stop.
May God in his infinite Grace & Mercy grant our leaders the wisdom to avoid Bloodshed in Gambia
"The tenure of human positions, no matter how highly exalted will eventually come to an end. Only Gods tenure is eternal"
A last minute "Malangaring" or should I call it Joker has given a constitutional lifeline to the embattled President of Gambia , Yayah Jammeh , the self acclaimed trado medical healer recently lost his countries presidential elections to a former real estate agent in the west African state .
Few days ago the Gambian ruler declared a state of Emergency which was approved by the countries National Assembly, and few hour ago the BBC reported that the Gambia's National Assembly has extended the tenure of the President by 90 days.
Curiously I went in search of the Gambian constitution to unearth where the Parliament derived its powers to extended the tenure of a President.
After about 30 minutes of going through what looked like a duplicate if the Nigerian constitution I realised that Buhari who himself have never conceded an election to his opponent no matter how transparent the elections were, Senegal who have been showing off its obsolete Military hardware in display of Force to its tiny neighbor and the ECOWAS have all blindly fallen into a legal trap set by Jammeh.
They missed an opportunity to despatch judges to the Gambian supreme court to speedily adjudicate on the election matter as required by section 49 of the Gambian constitution which would have cleared any obstacle to the inauguration of President -elect Adama Barraw .
Section 34 subsections 1- 5 provides that the President can declare a state of emergency and such declaration will subsist for 90 days provided it was approved two third by the National Assembly of the Gambia .
The joker in declaring the state of emergency at this time is in section 99 subsection 2 of the Gambian constitution which deals with the circumstances under which the tenure of the National Assembly can be extended.
It States that ; Any time the Gambia is at War or a state of emergency is declared , the National Assembly supported by a vote of not less than 2 /3 of its members can extend the life of the Assembly by 3 months at a time.
But not more than a total of 1 year under this subsection.
This subsection appeared innocuous to the Gambian President elect until I read section 63 subsection 6 which deals with the office of the President and realised ECOWAS needs to recheck their strategy if the Gambian stalemate will end without Bloodshed and a violation of the Gambian constitution.
Section 63(6) states that
When the tenure of the National Assembly is extended for any period in accordance with section 99(2) the tenure of office of the President shall be extended for the same period.
What this simply means is that except the ECOWAS quickly provides judges for the Gambian supreme court to quickly adjudicate on Jammeh's petition and quickly dispose or uphold it he may be in office for another one year without violating any provision of his countries constitution.
Africa and the impoverished people of west Africa do not deserve another war, Nigerian soldiers have already seen enough in the last 8 years, we already have too many military widows I don't think we should make more widows in Gambia.
Jammeh and his gang in the Gambia also need to understand that leadership is not by force, democratic irresponsibility has its consequences they must be willing to put the interest of their own people above their ego and carnal desires, for decades Africa have been defined by despots and the wars they foolishly invite , we don't need a war at a time our economy is in coma, every bomb exploded can build a school somewhere in Africa , A Russian made AK47 can fully stock a local school library with all the book it needs , the cost of sending military ships and maintaining them can be of great help to our dilapidated infrastructure.
For Ages we have traded our meagre earnings for weapons from the west which we have consistently used to kill ourselves and destroy the continent this must stop.
May God in his infinite Grace & Mercy grant our leaders the wisdom to avoid Bloodshed in Gambia
"The tenure of human positions, no matter how highly exalted will eventually come to an end. Only Gods tenure is eternal"
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Oyeleye joins Mayweather Promotions
Nigerian boxer, Oluwafemi Oyeleye has signed a promotional contract with Mayweather Promotions, the company has announced.
Mayweather Promotions, LLC is a boxing promotional firm founded by five-division world and eleven-time world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2007.
Oyeleye, who won gold in the 69kg welterweight category at the 2015 All Africa Games has been training in United States for the past few months.
“Hailing from Lagos, Nigeria, Oluwafemi Oyeleye @nisty01 will make his pro debut as part of the Mayweather Promotions team on 12/2 at @samstownlv. Make sure you follow him, as he will bring some great action to the sport of boxing!,” the promotional outfit said on their Instagram account @Mayweatherpromotions.
The 22 year old boxer is however looking forward to his first fight on big stage.
“I’m happy to announce to the world and my friends who have been asking me who I signed
Toyin Aimakhu and Her Tailor Put On Blast Over Her New Look
Spotting a purple African print jumpsuit on light blue shoes, popular Yoruba actress, Toyin Aimakhu looked awful if the comments by her fans are anything to go by.
The actress who is rocking a new crop hairdo was rocking an outfit from Cokeson Signature her tailor who was severely put on blast for the dress the actress was rocking.
Tuesday 19 July 2016
Photos: See what a 'pastor' wore in a Yoruba movie
Yes, its says weed and porn on the t.shirt worn by a man
playing a pastor in a Yoruba movie. The screenshot was
shared by twitter user, Tutu O
Thursday 23 June 2016
EDO State APC POLITICAL STUNTS
Nigeria with cheap electoral propaganda, as we can see the
political atmosphere of Edo State is at its peak again as a
result of the expiration of Adams oshiomole's second tenure
but i am less concerned about that, and I only want to
pinpoint my reaction towards this picture which comprises
of Oshiomole(the outgoing EDO STATE GOVERNOR , Godwin
OBASEKI (the APC gubernatorial candidate in Edo State) and
Co . this picture tells me that Nigerians are fools, using
eating of corns in the street which u have not step for
decades as a parameter to convince people to vote for u,
I'm neither an anti APC nor an anti PDP or any political party
but politics should be more than sympathy, in 1990
Nigerians gave Oluwasegun Obasanjo a sympathetic votes
simply because he was just released from prison and at the
end we all knew what the result of his tenure was, in 2012
Jonathan came up with i have no shoe coupled with how
lucky he was to rise to the position of deputy governor and
also Governor later to VP and when he wanted to contests
for president a sympathetic votes was also given to him, we
also saw what the outcome was, last year a sympathetic
vote was also given to the man from daura president
Mohammed Buhari because he has contested for three
consecutive times without winning and because of his
endurance we voted for him,now my question is should the
people of Edo State give a sympathetic votes to OBASEKI
the APC flag bearer because he ate corn while walking in the
street which he has never done before.
Let's put an end to all these political stunts. when did u see
any picture of Donald Trumph with any sympathetic
postures rather they would had an open debate, convince
the people with there manifestos and people would ask
them series of questions through this means as an
individual you would know who you are going to vote for but
the reverse is the case in Nigeria. All what they know is to
come up with a useless friction which would make people to
give them sympathetic vote.
But I belief that one day there would be a turn-around in the
politics of Nigeria
Comrade Akanbi Azeez Olalekan
Wednesday 22 June 2016
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