Four G4 security men were yesterday convicted and sentenced by the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court for stealing the very thing that they were entrusted to safeguard.

Kaba Bojang, Bakary Sowe, Edrisa Sanyang and Lamin Gibba were sentenced to serve a month’s mandatory jail term after being found guilty of stealing 700 litres of gas oil from the warehouse of the American Embassy in Banjul.

The quartet was each ordered to compensate the embassy with the sum of D5000 in default to serve 12 years in prisons.

The case was chaired by magistrate Pa Harry Jammeh and the IGP represented by Cpl. Camara.