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Breaking News:Justice MA Paul Engulfs in a D3Million Bribery Scandal-State House Sources unveil!
Justice MA Paul Engulfs in a D3Million Bribery Scandal-State House Sources unveil!

Buba Baldeh, Buba Senghore and Kuru Kongera offered D3Million Dalasis to Justice Paul to Free Baba Jobe!!

Paul says he ejected the three out of his office!

Justice Paul never invited his clerk or a member of the judiciary to witness his meeting with Baldeh, Senghore and Kongera. He spent couple of hours with the three trying to strategize ways and means of reaching a deal with them. Our source said Paul was afraid to inform the police or the state about the said bribery scandal, since he agreed to receive the three in his office, while the Baba Jobe economic crimes case was on. "Paul told me that the President was all the time pressing for life imprisonment for Jobe. He denied receiving money from these people, but had confirmed threatening them with arrest. Paul said the President was bound to be angry if the said bribery offer was brought to the notice of the state. As such, he decided to treat the matter under the carpet." said our source.

A Nigerian judge in The Gambia, Justice MA Paul, was offered D3Million Dalasis bribe, in a bid to free Baba Jobe, the former Majority leader, the Freedom Newspaper can authoritatively report. Three former APRC bigwigs have been linked to this major graft, which was calculated to lobby for light sentence or acquittal for the disgraced former UN indicted armed trafficker, according to Justice Paul who disclosed this classified information to our source. Former Daily Observer Managing Director and APRC Deputy National Mobilizer Buba Baldeh, Buba Senhore, EX- KMC official, and Kuru Kongera nearly succeeded in their bid to corrupt the mercenary judge, as judge welcomed them in his chamber to discuss the mode of deal to free Baba Jobe. The three men, upon meeting Paul brandished the D3Million Dalasis and asked the judge to free Jobe. " I wanted to order for their arrest, but after a second thought I decided I send them out of my office. Paul claimed that he never received the money even though Baba Jobe received a light sentence." said our source.

Justice Paul never invited his clerk or a member of the judiciary to witness his meeting with Baldeh, Senghore and Kongera. He spent couple of hours with the three trying to strategize ways and means of reaching a deal with them. Our source said Paul was afraid to inform the police or the state about the said bribery scandal, since he agreed to receive the three in his office, while the Baba Jobe economic crimes case was on. "Paul told me that the President was all the time pressing for life imprisonment for Jobe. He denied receiving money from these people, but had confirmed threatening them with arrest. Paul said the President was bound to be angry if the said bribery offer was brought to the notice of the state. As such, he decided to treat the matter under the carpet." said our source.

Justice Paul said our source" Personally informed me about the said bribery case. Paul and I are close buddies. He said he could have seized the money from these people and nothing would come out of it. He said Baldeh, Senghore and Kongera begged him to free Jobe, but he refused to heed to their request. Justice Paul might be shocked to read the privilege conversation we had online, but I want Gambians to know the true colors of Paul. Paul is not clean as he wants to make us believe."

According to our source, Justice Paul explained to him how the President offered him two cars with special escort. "Paul told me that he and the DPP Akomaye Agim received death threat letters shortly after his refusal to accept the D3Million bribery. He said the death threat letters were dropped at the court house. This prompted the state to provide them with extra security." said our source.

Paul continued our source" decided to sit on the bribery case and poised as if nothing had happened. Some of these people who offered him the D3million testified as defence and prosecution witnesses. The whole trial was marred by conflict of interest. Paul was talking to witnesses out of court. To some extent, this rendered his decision unreliable and untenable. He violated the code of conduct designed for judges. The mere fact that he failed to expose these people who tried to bribe him to evade justice, goes to show that there was no impartiality in the whole trial."

Justice Paul also brags about his close ties with the President each time he met our source. While people scheduled appoints to meet Jammeh, Paul said each time he meets Jammeh, he would give him short notice. In some instances, he would walked into the state house unscheduled.

Paul said our source "instigated the sacking of the then Chief Justice Alan Stephan Brobbey a Ghanaian judge. There was this impression created that he reigned. Justice Brobbery was fired, thanks to Justice Paul's behind the scene moves. Justice Paul complained to the President that the judge allowed members of the Bar to see his file. This according to Paul tantamount to invasion of privacy."

"During this period, the lawyers were boycotting his court. Jammeh immediately sacked the CJ. That he was encouraging the opposition to cause unrest in the courts. Jammeh even threatened the then AG Hydara for allowing the CJ to violate the ethics of the profession." our source added.

Another reason advanced for the CJ's sacking was linked to the acquittal of the jailed Gambian lawyer Antouman Gaye. Paul sentenced Gaye to three months in jail without an option of a fine. Gaye was jailed for securing one of his clients bail, who later jumped bail. As soon as Gaye was sent to jail, his colleagues stormed the offices of the CJ condemning Paul's harsh sentence. The CJ advised them to file an appeal, which was entertained by the superior court. Justice Yamoa in her ruling dismissed Paul's judgment. After spending three days in jail, Gaye was freed.

Paul immediately rushed to the President and told him that the CJ was acting on the wish and caprices of the Bar association. That he was not basing his decisions on law. He told the President that there were hundreds of pending cases at the court of appeal and wondered how he the CJ gave prominence to Gaye's case. He said the CJ was not impartial. That he discriminates against other litigants already in jail. Paul at that meeting told the President that he was the most senior judge of the High court and wondered how a junior judge can question his judgment and consequently dismiss it.

Paul also argued that his decision cannot be overruled by one sitting judge. That the court was not properly instituted at the time. He gave Jammeh the impression that everything was done clandestinely. Paul told Jammeh that SOS Hydara also harbored grudges against him since he was indicted by his commission. He thought that Hydara was working on discrediting him. Hydara was later sacked.

Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 (Archive on Friday, August 31, 2007)
Posted by PNMBAI Contributed by PNMBAI

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