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Current Feed ContentIn Oley Sey Criminal Case, 2nd Accused TestifiesAbdou Rahman Bah, Co-ordinator of the SulaymanJamesJunkungJammehMemorialNursery School who is also the 2nd accused in the ongoing criminal trial involving him and Oley Sey, on Wednesday opened his defence. The duo were alleged to have conspired to steal the sum of D500,000 being money meant for the SulaymanJunkungJammehMemorialNursery School in Abuko. In his testimony, the 2nd accused Abdou Rahman Bah told the court that he and his friends in the UK are constructing the said nursery school with...GRA Mobile Bridge Commander Testifies in Customs CaseMusa Kinteh, a Mobile Bridge Commander at the Gambia Revenue Authority last Monday testified in the ongoing trial at the Brikama Magistrates’ Court of one Mass Jeng, former customs officer. In his testimony, Mr Kinteh told the court that his role was to supervise all the activities carried out around the border. He recalled some time in the year 2007 when he went to the Giboro customs post to confirm transit documents when he noticed some discrepancy in the record books. He said the accused...Lady Testifies in Assault CaseOne JokoKonteh of Brikama Sanchaba on24thSeptember 2008testified in the trial of one Jabou Darboe who is being chargedwithassault causing actual bodily harm.In hertestimony before the court PW1, Joko Konteh, told the court that on8thAugust 2008 while she was from the hospitalgoing home, she found the accused person sitting with some people infront of one compound. She said when the accused saw her coming shewent by the fence and dropped a pair oftrousers on top of the fence and she put on a...Bakary Huma testifies in Bai Ousman, Batata caseBakary Huma, permanent secretary (PS) at the Department of State for Works, Construction and Infrastructure, yesterday, gave his testimony in the ongoing criminal trial of Bai Ousman Secka and Batata Juwara, former permanent secretary and chief of protocol of the Department of State for Foreign Affairs respectively. The two defendants are facing charges of abuse of office and uttering false documents. In his short but precise testimony before Magistrate Lamin George of the Banjul Magistrates...Interpol agent testifies in Today editor trialASP Numo Kujabi, an agent of the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) Unit of the Gambian Police Force, yesterday gave evidence in the sedition trial of the managing editor of the Today newspaper, Abdul Hamid Adiamoh. Testifying before Principal Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Kanifing Magistrates Court, ASP Kujabi told the court that he had invited the accused person on September 21, to his office at the Police Headquarters, where he confronted him with a copy of Today newspaper,...Head Mistress Testifies in Oley Sey CaseMs. Anne Marie Joe Gassama, Head Mistress of Abuko Lower Basic School was the latest prosecution witness to testify in the trial of Oley Sey and Abdou Rahman Bah. The duo was in court for allegedly stealing the sum of D500, 000, being the money of SulaymanJunkungJammehNursery School in Abuko. They have denied the charges. Testifying, Ms Anne Marie Joe Kassama told the court that the 2nd accused, Abdou Rahman Bah, has been working under him as the co-ordinator of She adduced that on the 29th...Police Office Testifies in Theft CaseBakary Ceesay, a police officer attached to the Brikama Police Station, recently testified in the trial of one Alhagie Abdoulie Jallow who was accused of stealing a sheep. Testifying, Officer Bakary Ceesay told the court that while on duty at the Brikama Police Station on 16th August 2008, he received a report that the accused had been spotted with a sheep. He said he boarded a police vehicle together with another police officer and upon spotting the accused, the accused ran into the bush. He...KMC Mayor Testifies in Oley Sey CaseMayor Yankuba Colley of the Kanifing Municipal Counci l(KMC) yesterday testified in the trial of Oley Sey and Abdou Rahman Bah at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court presided over by Magistrate Lamin George. Both of them are being tried on charges of conspiracy to commit a felony and stealing. It was alleged that the two accused persons stole the sum of D500,000, being the money of Sulayman Junkung Jammeh Nursery at Abuko. Testifying, Mayor Colley told the court that prior to 29th July 2008, he was...KMC mayor testifies in courtYankuba Colley, the mayor of the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), yesterday appeared before Magistrate Lamin George of the Banjul Magistrates Court, where he gave evidence in the ongoing theft case involving Oley Sey, a former nominated member of the National Assembly, and Abdourahman Bah, the coordinator of James Junkung Jammeh Memorial School. At the court, Mayor Colley recalled receiving a telephone call from Mrs Fatou Lamin Faye, the secretary of state for Basic and Secondary Education,...Guinean National TestifiesAugustus Biyofa, a Guinean national who is standing trial before the Central River Region travelling Magistrate Amadou Baldeh for attempted rape, has opened his defence. In his testimony, Mr Biyofa told the court that on the day in question he met the girl and her father where he gave the girl D5.00 in commemoration of St Mary's. He added that while in his house, a woman knocked on his door and said that she heard people saying, "You wanted to have an affair with the little girl." He said... |
