Farba Ngom maintenu en détention : "Quand l’entêtement tient lieu d’intelligence", Abdou Mbow
From Tangier, Morocco where he is located, MP Abdou Mbow reacted strongly to the continued imprisonment of the MP-mayor of Agnams, Farba Ngom, following the appeal lodged by the financial prosecutor against the release order issued by the investigating judge.
Indeed, the financial prosecutor's office has appealed the court decision granting provisional release to Mouhamadou Ngom, known as "Farba." This appeal has the immediate effect of suspending the execution of the said order and prolonging his detention.
According to him, the appeal by the financial prosecutor's office has the immediate effect of suspending the execution of the release order and prolonging the detention of Farba Ngom, even though his co-accused, Tahirou Sarr, has benefited from provisional release in the same case.
For Abdou Mbow, this situation reveals a justice system with double standards. "How else can we explain, other than by the Prime Minister's crypto-personal vendetta against Farba Ngom, that Tahirou Sarr is released when they are being prosecuted for the same facts in the same case and when the reasons given by the investigating judge for granting provisional release are identical and written in the same terms for both defendants?" he asks.
The MP believes the prosecution has chosen to appeal only the decision concerning Farba Ngom, which he considers a violation of the constitutional principle of equality before the law. He sees this approach as evidence of a deliberate political will to keep the elected representative from Agnams in prison.
"I would like to denounce here and now this manifest desire of the power in place to continue in a grotesque undertaking of breaking the opposition. Never in Senegal have we had such a strong impression of a Justice system so stubborn, even relentless in justifying the political choices of a political power eager for revenge," the parliamentarian fumed.
He directly implicates the Executive branch, accusing Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko of being behind what he describes as "political revenge." He asserts that the prosecutor is acting under the influence of the Minister of Justice, who is himself subject to the orders of the head of government.
"What was supposed to be a reckoning has turned into a political settling of scores," laments the MP, denouncing a serious attack on the independence of the judiciary and a "plundering of republican institutions."
Expressing his solidarity with Farba Ngom, Abdou Mbow called for his "immediate and unconditional release" in the name of democracy and the rule of law. He asserted that this case will remain a significant landmark in Senegal's recent political and judicial history.
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Nous voulons tous vous voir en prison pour le reste de vos vies.
Malheureusement, nous avons à faire avec des incapables en charge qui au lieu de sortir les preuves tangibles préfèrent jouer au dilatoire.
J’ai cru à un moment que notre justice dira le droit et rien d’autre.
Maintenant Farba doit être libéré et on attend 2029.
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