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Momodou
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 Posted - 28 Dec 2007 : 21:24:00
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SIX MEN SENTENCED FOR 4 MILLION DALASI THEFT AT TREASURY
By Bubacarr K. Sowe
Six men working at different Government departments and security agencies were recently sentenced to various jail terms ranging between one and a half years to thirteen years nine months.
All the six men pleaded guilty to the one hundred and forty-five criminal charges of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and fraud related offences, involving over four million dalasi at the Treasury Department.
Babucarr Baldeh, a personnel of the Gambia Armed Forces, was given a cumulative sentence of twelve years without the option of a fine, while the second accused Marcel Jammeh of the Gambia Prisons Department got thirteen years and nine months, also without the option of a fine.
Alieu Jallow and Sarjo Bah also bagged three and a half years and one and a half years, respectively, without any option of a fine.
Edrisa Colley and Sulayman Bojang were each given one year eight months, also carrying no option of a fine.
Magistrate Kayode Henry Olajubutu of the Banjul Magistrates court said the conduct of the young men was carefully planned and they deserved to be punished.
He said the offences are serious and have been set against what he described as the heartbeat of the country- The Treasury.
The convicts made their first appearance in court on the day before their sentencing with some of them pleading not guilty. But on the following day, Friday, they admitted doing the acts.
Meanwhile, the third accused person, Henry Davies, is reported ill and that his trial was separated from his co-accused persons.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 150/2007, 27 December, 2007
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