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Two Years on, Chief Manneh’s Parents Still in Tears

The family of Ebrima Chief Manneh, the missing journalist who was working with Daily Observer Newspaper have renewed pleas for his release. Ebrima Chief Manneh has not been seen for two years, three months now, since 7th July 2006 when he reportedly went missing and has since then not been seen. Speaking to the Point last Tuesday, Mr. Sarjo Manneh, the ageing father of Ebrima Chief Manneh, said since the day Chief Manneh disappeared, for two years, three months now, his life has not been worth...

Two High Court Judges Receive Marching Orders

Official sources from the Judicial Service have confirmed to this paper the dismissal of Justice B.Y Camara and Justice Haddy Roche from active service. Until their dismissal, both of them were High Court judges. According to our sources, the dismissal of the said Judges from active service took effect from last week.  No reason was given for their dismissal. Justice Haddy Roche had been a High Court judge since 2005, while Justice B.Y Camara had only been appointed a High Court judge on 1...

Business Consultant Dodou Jobe Released

After Two Months in Detention The Point has learnt from competent sources that Mr. Dodou Jobe, a renowned business consultant who was arrested two months ago, was last Saturday released from detention. Mr Jobe, who was arrested alongside Alhagie Banta Kaira, also a renowned businessman, was reported to have been picked up by state security agents on 28th April 2008. No official reason was advanced to this paper for his arrest, nor for that of his alleged accomplice, Banta Kaira, who was...

Two Charged for Issuing False Cheques of over D8m

Muhammed Jagana and Assan Njie were on Wednesday arraigned before Principal Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court, charged with issuing false cheques, obtaining goods by false pretence and conspiracy to commit a felony. In count one, the particulars of the offence stated that the 1st accused, Muhammed Jagana, in the month of June 2008 issued two Arab Gambia Islamic Bank (AGIB) false cheques with the face value of D800,000 and D400,000 to Amadou Samba knowing it to be false. In...

Two More Gambians Appointed Judges

In line with the Gambia Government’s policy to indiginise the judiciary, two more Gambians have been appointed High Court judges. Magistrate B.Y. Camara and Moses Richard, both Principal Magistrates, have been appointed High Court Judges with effect from 1st July 2008. Prior to their latest appointment B.Y. Camara served as a magistrate, Senior Magistrate, Principal Magistrate and later Master of the High Court. He was later appointed Principal Magistrate, the position he held until his new...

Two Alleged Homosexuals Arrested

The policelast Friday arrested two men believed to be homosexuals, this paper has beenreliably informed. The two are reported to be Spanish nationals.Pere Joan,56, and Juan Monpserratrusau, 54, held at Kotu police station, allegedlyapproached two taxi drivers (names withheld) and made proposals to them. Our sourcessaid the drivers acted quickly but secretly by immediately alerting the police,while putting up a show of interest in the advances of the culprits who werelured to a rendezvous in...

Two exonerated from rape allegations

Two youths were on Monday exonerated from charges of rape following several weeks of trial. Ebrima Jammeh and Ousman Jammeh were recently charged at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court for defiling a girl in Kotu in the Kanifing municipality. But they were on 5 May acquitted and discharged when Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara pointed out that her court could not rely on the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses to convict Ebrima and Ousman. She added that the prosecution did not prove its case as...

Two Senior Police Officials, Others Arrested

Police Commissioner Burama Dibba, Crime Management Co-ordinator (CMC) of GPF and Ebrima Kunji Jammeh, Commanding Officer Serious Crime Unit, were arrested on Wednesday and detained at Mile 2 prisons, reliable sources revealed to this paper. No official reason was advanced to this paper for the arrests and as at the time of going to press, both were reported to be still in detention at Mile 2. Our sources added that two other prominent people, Banta Kaira, a businessman, and Dodou Jobe, a ...

Fugitive sent to Mile Two

Tijan Janha, who last Thursday escaped from lawful custody from the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court while waiting to be transported back to prison, ran out of luck as he was later apprehended by the police. He was yesterday re-arraigned before Magistrate Pa Harry Jammeh of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court who convicted and sentenced him to a month’s imprisonment for escaping from lawful custody. Tijan, who was earlier arraigned for threatening to kill his mother, would, upon completion of the...