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| President Jammeh had earlier pledged to have all death row inmates executed by mid-September, before a moratorium was announced. Photo | BBC | |
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of other events in 2012 witnessed the execution of “convicted murderers” based
on the provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the Land, Gambia’s President
Yahya Jammeh said of the August Execution of nine death-row inmates.
In
a New Year’s Eve televised address to Gambians he said: “Such necessary actions
despite being constitutional were misconstrued outside The Gambia and
hypocritically blown out of proportion unnecessarily.”
“In
fostering peace and stability in The Gambia, my Government will never
compromise with criminals whose main intention is to stall our progress.
“When
we carried out those executions, we acted within the confines of our national
laws, and in accordance with our commitment to the rule of law.”
Gambians
heard that his Government “will always maintain zero tolerance for violence,
anarchy, murder, rape, drugs, corruption and sadistic criminal disguised in any
religion to slaughter innocent people under the name of any cult.”
“I
call it cult because none of the main religions Allah’s prophets enjoined any
act of violence and mass murder in pursuit of establishing or expanding such a
religion,” he argued.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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