Anayasa İntihal: Gambiya Gerçeği

Year 2023, Volume: 11 Issue: 29, 111 - 133, 25.01.2023

Akpojevbe Omasanjuwa

https://doi.org/10.31126/akrajournal.1061643

Abstract

Yazı, Gambiya Anayasa Taslağı Hazırlama Komitesi’ne, yoğun isteğe cevap olarak 1997 Anayasasının yerini alacak bir Anayasa hazırlaması talimatı veren ödevi ele almaktadır. Hükümet tarafından bir araya getirilen uzmanlardan oluşan ekip, görevi, bazı kusurlarının olmasına karşın başardı. Ancak yasama organı başka nedenlerle belgeyi veto etti. Niteliksel analiz yoluyla intihal ve yasal düsturlar üzerine farklı bakış açılarıyla yaklaşan bu yazı, görevin neyi gerektirdiğini araştırarak hatanın nerede olduğunu incelemektedir. Taslak Komitesi’nin bu eylemi, iyi korunmuş sömürge anayasasına bağlı anakronizmleri ortadan kaldırmak yerine onu koruyucu "bir beyaz fil projesi" olduğunu ortaya çıkararak toplumu, kafası karışık hâlde bıraktı. Hem intihal hem de güveni suistimale yönelik hiçbir yasal çare bulunmadığından bu yazı, hatanın kendi müsebbib yıldızlarında değil, olayın tekrarını önlemek için eğitimsel gelişme hızını artırması gereken toplumun bizzat kendisinde aranması sonucuna varmıştır.

Keywords

anayasa taslağı, intihal, Gambiya, mütevelli vazifesi, iyi niyet

The Gambian Reality

Abstract

The Note addresses the assignment mandated The Gambia Constitution Drafting Committee to prepare a Constitution to replace that of 1997 in response to popular demand. The team of experts assembled by government accomplished the task though with a serious flaw: plagiarism. The legislature however, for other reasons, vetoed the document. With diverse viewpoints on plagiarism and legal maxims, through qualitative analysis, this Note examines where the fault lay by probing what the assignment entails. The action of the drafting Committee left the society confused and without recourse after spending a whooping sum of money on what turned out to be a white elephant project that preserved rather than eliminate well preserved colonial constitutional anachronisms. As no legal remedy exist for both plagiarism and breach of trust, the Note concluded that the fault is not in their stars but in the society that needs to accelerate the pace of educational development to avert a repeat of the incidence.

Keywords

constitution drafting, plagiarism, The Gambia, fiduciary duty, good faith

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