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Current Feed ContentI.G.P please take noteEditor, Can you please allow me space in your widely read newspaper to recommend the Police officer attach at Sting-Corner junction to the Inspector General of the Police (IGP). This Police officer is a highly discipline and decent gentleman who many describe as an officer who would not compromise his duty. On behalf of all those who admire this officer for his good job, I am hereby recommending him to the IGP and the Police Authority. Officer ,job well done and keep it up. Ebrima...IGP Can’t be Surety for Accused - Lawyer TambedouLawyer Sherriff Tambedou the leading counsel in the ongoingcriminal trial of Bakary Gassama (former NIA Director of Finance) has arguedthat the person who is prosecuting you cannot be your surety.Lawyer Tambedou made this statement yesterday before JusticeJoseph Wowo of the Criminal Division of the Banjul High Court while submittingthe bail review application filed by the applicant Bakary Gassama. The applicant Bakary Gassama is seeking before the HighCourt a review of his bail conditions...D3m bail for DutchmanMarc Maurice Alfred Vanmaldegum, the Dutch citizen accused of helping Charles Northfield to escape, has been ordered to deposit the sum of 3 million dalasis. The amount was set by Justice Wowo of the Criminal Division of the High Court as part of his bail conditions. The High Court judge also ordered him to provide 2 Gambian sureties with landed properties each valued at 2 million dalasis within the Greater Banjul Area. Passport-sized photos of the accused person are to be displayed at all...Senegalese Butcher ConvictedAbdoulie Njorr, a Senegalese butcher, was on Tuesday 30th September 2008 convicted and sentenced to a fine of D5000, in default to serve four months’ imprisonment. Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbackeh of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court presided over the case. The conviction followed the accused person’s plea of guilt for selling a kilo of steak at D120 instead of the fixed price of D80. Mr. Njorr begged the court to temper justice with mercy in his plea of mitigation. However, Magistrate...GTTI law students meet IGPThe Law Students Association at The Gambia Technical Training Institute (GTTI) recently called on the Inspector General of Police, Ensa Badjie, at his office in Banjul. The visit was geared towards cementing the cordial relationship between the police and the association. In his statement at the ceremony, Lamin J Gassama, the president of the association, outlined the purpose of their visit. He said “one of the core reasons for our visit is to establish a strong partnership between the...Corporal Foday Saidykhan testifies in fake currency caseDetective Corporal Foday Saidykhan, attached to the Criminal Investigation Department at the Serrekunda Police Station, recently testified in an ongoing fake currency case involving one Abdou Joof before Senior Magistrate Kumbah Sillah-Camara of the Bundung Magistrates Court. The detective who is PW1 in the case, told the honourable court that on 17 December, 2007, while he was on duty at the Serekunda Criminal Investigation Department office, the accused person, Abdou Joof, was brought in for...No extension in peacekeeping- - IGP Badjie declaresEnsa Badjie, the inspector general of Police (IGP) has said there will be no single extension of peacekeeping mandate for any security outfit in the country. “If your mission ends and you have come back, as far as my tenure as the Inspector General of Police is concerned, there will be no extension of a peacekeeping mission for any single security outfit in The Gambia,” the IGP declared. IGP Badjie made these remarks whilst addressing eight Gambian peacekeeping observers who recently returned...Man charged with false pretenceOne Momodou Jaho was, on Monday, brought before the Bundung Magistrates Court presided over by Senior Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara for taking money from Yusupha Trawally through false pretence. According to the charge sheet, on 11 February, 2008, at Kololi Village in Kanifing Municipal Council in The Gambia, Momodou Jaho received the sum of D55,000 from Yusupha Trawally by presenting himself as the owner of a green Peugeot 406 car which he sold to the plaintiff, Yusupha Trawally, despite the...Fresh charges slammed on Musa SusoFour fresh charges have been slammed on Musa Suso, the former National Assembly member (NAM) for Kombo North, who was earlier on charged with giving out false information to a public officer. When the case resumed before Senior Magistrate Olajubutu of the Banjul Magistrates Court, the prosecutor, ASP Badjie filed an application to substitute the first charge sheet and the defence counsel, Lamin Jobarteh raised no objection before the presiding magistrate granted the application. Fresh charges...Burama Dibba dischargedBurama Dibba, a former crime management coordinator (CMC) of the Gambia Police Force (GPF) was, yesterday, acquitted and discharged by Senior Magistrate Kayode Olajubutu of Banjul Magistrates Court, following a no-case-to-answer submission by a team of defence counsel. Mr Dibba was acquitted on the charge of giving false information to a public officer (the then IGP Benedict Jammeh) in 2007, that the director of prisons, David Colley, had fed the carcass of a bull to inmates at the prisons and... |
