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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 26 Oct 2007 : 18:15:12
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GAWFA Credit Clerk Convicted
By Modou Jonga
The Credit Clerk of the Brikama Branch of The Gambia Women Finance Association (GAWFA) one Gida Khan was on Wednesday 23 October, 2007, convicted by Magistrate E.F. M’bai of the Brikama Magistrate Court. The Credit Clerk who pleaded guilty is charged with stealing by clerk or servant in the sum of three hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred and forty two dalasis, twenty-seven butut at Brikama in the Kombo Central District between the months of January and April 2007.
In narrating the facts of the said theft, prosecutor Corporal 134 Sambou noted that it happened on 19 March 2007. That one Mr. Senika Sanyang, an Auditor of GAWFA and one Mr. Ebrima Sillah, Finance and Administrative Officer reported the case at the Brikama Police Station. Corporal 134 Sambou stated that a report of financial mismanagement in the office of the said credit clerk was disclosed at the said office.
The prosecutor noted that auditing was done in the office of the said credit clerk and that an audit report was made with the sum of D360,842.27 missing. According to the prosecutor, when the accused was confronted he confessed to the said allegation and agreed that the missing monies were under his custody. Corporal Sambou, then noted that the said credit clerk was charged for the offence committed and detained at the said police station. Narrating further, Corporal Sambou told the court that while the accused was in custody, he made payment of an amount of forty-two thousand dalasis to the GAWFA offers in three instalments.
The first payment, noted Corporal Sambou, was on 30 March 2007 in the sum of five thousand dalasis on 11 April 2007 and the third payment in the sum of eighteen thousand dalasis on 19 April 2007. The said audit report and receipts of the three payments were tendered in court and marked as exhibits without objection by the accused. Prior to the accused’s detention prosecutor Sambou noted that the accused was cautioned and charged with theft by clerk and his cautionary and voluntary statements were taken by the police in the presence of one Modou Bojang, an independent witness.
The cautionary and voluntary statements of the accused were tendered in court and marked as an exhibit without objection by the accused. Following the end of the narrations of the facts by the prosecutor, the accused did not object to the narrated facts. Thus the presiding magistrate convicted the accused as charged and on his plea of guilty.
In his mitigation before the court, the convict noted that the said amount of money was stolen from his house. While urging the court to grant him time to pay the said amount in monthly instalments of five thousand dalasis. The convict noted that he is a heart patient and a family man.
In delivering his statement, Magistrate M’bai noted that the said theft offence is serious, for the convict had diverted funds meant from the beneficiaries’ to his personal use. Magistrate M’bai stated that the convict had betrayed the high confidence bestowed on him by his employer, his family and has betrayed himself. “I do not believe that the said amount was stolen from the house. “The fact that you are entrusted with such amount, it does not licensed you to spend it as you wish,” Magistrate M’bai remarked The convict was thus sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour and to pay the sum of three hundred and eighteen thousand, eight hundred and forty-two dalasis, twenty-seven butut; in default to serve further two years in prison. Both sentences are to run consecutively.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 126/2007, 26 – 28 October 2007
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toubab1020
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Posted - 26 Oct 2007 : 19:13:57
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| GAWFA members will find times hard with the escalation of prices and for Gida Khan (a Gambian ?) to take this money from poor people is evil he deserves no sympathy or help during his stay in prison,there will be no repayment to the women and it does very little for the hope that Gambia will become a financial centre,untrustwothyness is everywhere fron the big man to the small man shame on such people.Gambians have very little to change their lives for honesty whilst corruption and theft continues unabated in Gambia. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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