Lamin K. Saine is a Gambian politician and former security official who is one of five nominated members of the National Assembly appointed by President Yahya Jammeh following the 2012 parliamentary election.
In 2005, he published a novel, Ripped Apart, which was launched by Amadou Scattred Janneh, the information minister.
He was also the principal witness for the Gambian government in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) hearing on the murder of Deyda Hydara in 2011.
[3] In 2014, former NIA analyst Ousman Bojang accused Saine of withholding information about the March 2006 coup attempt from Jammeh in order to remove his then-superior, Daba Marena.
Speaking in the National Assembly in December 2016 during the 2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis and ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia, Saine argued that ,internal disputes ended by foreign intervention, tended to end in bloodshed.