A senior Nigerian judge serving as the Acting Chief Justice of the
Gambia, Joseph Wowo, has been sacked for soliciting a N2.5 million
(500,000 Dalasi) bribe from a Gambian-based Dutch businessman in return
for a favourable judgment in a land dispute case, PREMIUM TIMES can
authoritatively report today. Mr. Wowo, also a former President of the
Gambia Court of Appeal, was caught on tape holding a surreptitious
meeting with the former Gambian Justice Minister, Lamin Jobarteh (who
has also been sacked), a Dutch national, André Klaarbergen, and his
Nigerian Lawyer simply identified as Mene, negotiating the price of
subverting the judgment of a Gambian High Court over a land dispute
case, which Mr. Wowo agrees the Dutch rightly lost.
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