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Back-way route land man in court

The trial of one Sheriffo Danso who was charged withobtaining money by false pretence resumed at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court. Testifying, the complainant Sulayman Jammeh told the courtthat he was told by the accused that he had a vessel that travelled to theScandinavian countries and if he pay D35,000 he would secure employment for himin the ship. He testified that they later agreed at D25,000 which he paid andwas transported to Senegalwere he was dump by the accused for two months without...

Pay Off Your Debts!

It is agenerally accepted fact that in business dealings there must be honour.Unfortunately at the moment some of those people with whom The Point has done business in the last year and a half are notbehaving in an honourable manner. The behaviour in question is a failure to paytheir bills and this failure has left us in this newspaper facing acutefinancial constraints.This veryunsatisfactory situation is not confined to the private sector alone. In anumber of cases government agencies and...

Magistrate Mbake bemoans increase in defilement cases

Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbake of the Kanifing Magistrate Court, has described the defilement of underaged girls as a “cankerworm” which requires immediate intervention by all stakeholders to rid society of the menace. Magistrate Mbake made this remark on Tuesday while presiding over a defilement case involving a 16-year-old girl, who was defiled by a 54-year old Guinean. He pointed out that freedom has a limit. “I presided over a similar case involving a grade six student whom the...

CRIME WATCH: Fraudsters online

Some of the latest clever and dishonest ways of making money among the lazy ones are through the internet. Don’t be surprised if you find an email in your inbox headed ‘Congratulations, you won $1,000,000’.  Other typical mail headlines read ‘Transfer of 25 million dollars to your account’, ‘Do you want to become a million’, ‘I need your help’, ‘Be my friend’. Some will even send you a mail with subject ‘Dear beloved one’ and so on. All these are unsolicited bulk emails that are used to commit...

Alleged Visa Dealer in court

One Hagie Sillah of Bundung was recently arraigned before acting principal Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Bundung Magistrates’ Court charged with obtaining money by false means. The alleged offence revealed that in the year 2008 at Bundung obtained the sum of D81,000 from one Karamo Drammeh with the pretext of securing him an Italian Visa. He denied the charge. Adducing evidence the complainant told the court that he was approached by the accused that he can provide him with an Italian...

Oley Sey Has Case to Answer, Says Magistrate George

Magistrate Lamin George of the Banjul Magistrates’ Court yesterday ruled that the accused persons Oley Sey and Abdou Rahman Bah both have a case to answer in all the charges preferred against them. According to Magistrate Lamin George, the prosecution have proven a prima facie case in all the counts against the accused persons and that they should be called upon to enter their defence. They were both alleged to have conspired and stolen the sum of D500, 000 being the property of...

2 Cameroonians docked for fraud

Two Cameroonian nationals, Muhamad Kuruma and Tony Emeli, were, on Monday, arraigned before Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbake of the Kanifing Magistrates Court on a charge of obtaining money by false pretense. In his evidence in chief, Kalifa Fatty, the plaintiff, told the court that Muhamad Kuruma, the first defendant, took 1,300 euros from him promising to take him to Cyprus, in Europe. He further adduced that the defendant had also told him that he had already bought an air ticket to Cyprus...

Oley’s Lawyer Makes No-Case-to-Answer Application

The defence counsel Lamin Camara in the ongoing trial of Oley Sey and Abdou Rahman Bah last Friday declared that his client Oley Sey had no case to answer.  In his submission before Magistrate Lamin George of the Banjul Magistrates’ Court, Lawyer Camara stated that application was premised on the fact that the prosecution had not made out any prima facie case against the first accused Oley Sey to require her to enter her defence. “It is my submission that the evidence adduced by the...

Four in fraud saga

Four youths, Lamin Sisoho, Kali Bah, Morro Saidybah and Cherno Sissoho, appeared before Magistrate BO Jobe, at the Bundung Magistrates Court, charged with false pretence and conspiracy to defraud. As per their particulars of offense, the four accused persons face four counts. On count one, they were charged for obtaining money by false pretence between October 2007 and August 2008, at diverse places within the KMC. Still under count one, the accused, by false representation, obtained D1,430,000...

PIU commissioner testifies in court

The commissioner of the Police Intervention Unit (PIU) of the Gambia Police Force, Biran Mbaye, yesterday, testified before Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Bundung Magistrates Court in a civil case involving one Momodou Njie as plaintiff and Ebou Jobe as defendant. In his testimony, Commissioner Mbaye told the court that the plaintiff,  Momodou Njie, had told him that he had two Mercedes Benz cars that the defendant Ebou Jobe was interested in. Commissioner Mbaye told the court that Momodou Njie...