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toubab1020
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 Posted - 04 Jan 2011 : 21:09:37
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Well there appears to be a few leaks in the administrations bucket these days,have a look at this bit if reporting:
http://dailynews.gm/africa/gambia/article/is-holgam-fishing-company-transformed-into-a-detention-camp
If I remember correctly the Daily News was off line at this date so only the hard copy paper was available.
Is Holgam Fishing Company Transformed Into a Detention Camp?
africa » gambia
Friday, December 10, 2010
A former Dutch fishing company in The Gambia, Holgam Fishing Company in Kanifing South is said to be transformed into a detention camp and office of the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA).
The Daily News’ investigation into the detention of the former village head of Bafuloto revealed that, despite a security officers denial of the former (village head) Alkalo being detained at the former company, he was bailed from the former company.
The detention of people in unknown detention camps in places like Holgam Fishing Company is not sending a good signal to the populace. Legal prisons or detention camps should not take any clandestine form so that detainees’ families and loved ones could at least be sure of their whereabouts.
The case of the former Alkalo of Bafuloto is a case in point. This old man has been detained at the former Holgam Fishing Company on Saturday morning 4th December and only released on Tuesday afternoon 7th December. His fundamental human rights were violated.
Section 19 of the second republican Constitution of The Gambia for protection of the right to personal liberty states in sub section (1): “Every person shall have the right to liberty and security of the person. No one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his or her liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedures as established by law.”
Sub section (2) adds: “Any person who is arrested or detained shall be informed as soon as is reasonably practicable and in any case within three hours, in a language he or she understands, of the reasons for his or her arrest or detention and of his or her right to consult a legal practitioner.”
Sub section (3) points out that, “Any person who is arrested or detained - (a) for the purpose of bringing him or her before a court in execution of the order of a court; or (b) upon reasonable suspicion of his or her having committed, or being about to commit, a criminal offence under the laws of The Gambia, and who is not released, shall be brought without undue delay before a court and, in any event, within seventy-two hours.”
What the authorities of this country fail to understand is that credibility of a government is hard-earned but easily lost. Any system that arrests, detains and releases people without consideration of the supreme law of the land that guarantees their fundamental human rights is not sowing a futuristic seed of human rights.
Before his release, some family members of the former Alkalo Alhagie Sanna Manku Saidy wondered whether the detention of their elder at Holgam Fishing Company was really true. They could not visualize the rationale behind detaining such an old person (a man in his 80s) to be detained in a place known to be a fishing company. Some family members went to the extent of doubting whether they would meet the old man again on this earth.
The tradition of people being arrested, detained, released after their fundamental human rights have already been violated is gross disrespect for the rule of law and an affront to the personal liberty of the people
Author: Daily news
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