Is the Constitution according to the Gambia Bar Association a sacred text, a political tool, or both?

By Rtd Lt Colonel Samsudeen Sarr There is an old saying that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The same, it appears, can now be said of constitutions.

A constitution that was yesterday dismissed as the illegitimate offspring of military dictatorship has suddenly been rediscovered as the Holy Bible of Gambian democracy. […] ...