Magistrate Mboto resigns

Reports reaching the Daily Observer indicated that Senior Magistrate Mboto of the Banjul Magistrates Court has tendered her resignation as a magistrate.

Accordng to our sources, the magistrate’s resignation took effect since July 3.

Officials at the Banjul Magistrates Court confirmed the sory, although they could not corroborate on the reason for the decision.

However, extra judicial information indicated that the magistrate had secured a new job at one of the commercial banks in the country.

Contacted on this development, Haruna Jaiteh, the judicial secretary of The Gambia, also confirmed the resignation of the magistrate.  

“The magistrate tendered her resignation letter to the Judiciary on the 3rd July, 2008. So, automatically, her resignation was effected on that day”, said judicial secretary Jaiteh.