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Momodou
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 Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 00:48:03
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Repatriated Migrants Arraigned
By Modou Jonga
Thirty repatriated Gambian migrants from Spain were on Wednesday 29th arraigned before Magistrate E.F. M’bai at the Brikama Magistrate Court. The aspirant migrants most of whom are in their mid twenties were charged with malicious damage to the property of The Gambia Civil Aviation Authority at the Banjul International Airport on the 28th October 2006.
The properties include five flower plots and six flower plants valued at D7,5000.00 (seven thousand and five hundred dalasis), thirteen (13) fixed panels and thirty-nine (39)louver blades valued at D95, 800. The total value of the alleged properties is D103, 300 (one hundred and three thousand three hundred).
The number of the accused persons (aspirants migrants) present in court was said to be fifteen (15). An application for a bench warrant by the prosecutor ASP Badjie to be issued by the court for the arrest of the 15 accused persons who were absent and their respective sureties was over-ruled by the presiding magistrate who said it is premature to issue a bench warrant. The magistrate further said that the accused persons who are present in court cannot take their plea in the absence of the other (15) accused persons who were absent. The case was therein adjourned till Tuesday 12 December, 2006 for all thirty accused persons to take their plea.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 107/2006, 1-3 December, 2006
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