By Pa Louis Sambou One really need not have a vested interest in the subject matter nor even have a skin in the game one way or another for them…
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COLUMN | Is 4 Years of President Adama Barrow Deserving of Commemoration or Lamentation?
By Pa Louis Sambou The fourth anniversary of the Barrow Presidency, unlike the previous three, appeared to have been accorded a much greater degree of recognition and publicity with the cross-cutting theme…
REJOINDER | Open Letter to Citizens’ Alliance – Re: Your Public References Denoting Violence
In a press conference held or broadcast on Friday 15th January 2021 which was widely reported by several media outlets, your party leader and flag bearer Dr Ismaila Ceesay expressed your party’s concerns and frustration in…
COLUMN | Are We Sleepwalking into Another Post-Election Impasse?
By Pa Louis Sambou In an election year (2021) in The Gambia, Electoral Commission’s first official move is to announce the shredding of voter registration timetable dramatically coinciding with the President’s first official appointment…
COLUMN | Constitutionality (or Not) of Current IEC Chairman’s Position
By Pa Louis Sambou If one reels together the pitiful state of affairs of our post dictatorship transition, one realises that its essence is no longer what marshals the…
COLUMN | The Commodification of Public Office By the Infamous 40 NAMs – Is the ‘Loan Scheme’ Even Lawful?
By Pa Louis Sambou A key objective behind the design and concept of republican governance is, to prevent a total autonomy of any of the three arms of government (the…
COLUMN | The TRRC: Does the Orthodox Criminalisation of Coup D’tats Require a Rethink?
By Pa Louis Sambou Commissioned to “create an impartial historical record of violations and abuses of human rights from July 1994 to January 2017…, establish and make known the fate or…
COLUMN | ‘Diaspora will Get the Vote’ says IEC: Is This A Slam Dunk?
By Pa Louis Sambou I can imagine very few people being opposed to Diaspora enfranchisement, something which appeared to have been a dirty word in the vocabulary of the previous…
COLUMN | UDP’s Lawyer Ousainou Darboe — Is He Barred From Running For the Presidency?
By Pa Louis Sambou General public discourse has for sometime regularly featured the subject of the UDP Secretary General, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe’s eligibility to run for the Presidency under the existing…