The ECOWAS Parliament has advised against the regional body playing any major role in the formation of a special tribunal for the Gambia to prosecute human rights violations committed from July 1994 to January 2017, during the Jammeh regime.

This, it explained, is because ECOWAS should be interfering in the international affairs of the country, adding it cannot be a referee and a player at the same time.

It also said it has an agreement together with the UN and the AU leading to Jammeh’s exit which prevents ECOWAS from playing any role in what could be Jammeh and his allies’ prosecution.

Former President of the Gambia Bar Association, Salieu Taal, is leading proponents of the proposed hybrid internationalised court.

He began by expressing his feelings about the ECOWAS Parliament’s decision.