Magistrate M'Bai debunks unjustifiable judiciary attacks

Senior Magistrate EF M"Bai of the Brikama Magistrates Court has described as unprecedented and unjustifiable, the rate at which the society attacks the Judiciary. He raised this concern on Monday while presiding over a civil suit in Brikama.

Justifying his assertions, Magistrate M"Bai said complainants would file civil suits in court and they would not provide enough witnesses during  proceedings. "At the end, when the case is in favour of a defendant, the complainant heaps false charges  that the Magistrate was unjust. This is a serious attack on the judiciary" he said.

Senior Magistrate M"Bai further outlined that it was not humanly possible for the court to be advising complainants to bring their witnesses to court but that complainants should know better. To Magistrate Mbai, before, it was hard to find an accused person pleading not guilty of a charge that he or she truly committed.

"But that is a different thing today", he said. "Now a days, accused persons will commit a crime in  day light and when brought before the court of law, they will take oath with the Quran that they are not guilty" he said.

He then observed that people now go to court with ceremonial cases that could even be resolved at family level. Magistrate M' Bai concluded by urging the public to avoid attacking the judiciary unnecessarily.