Ali Baba [Yahya Jahanaba] and his 40 thieves had been in hibernation, but are
slowly being exposed, as the KMC Chairman is. From the [RAG]
Observer...
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ONLY JAMMEH IS IMMUNE COURT TELLS LAI CONTEH
Justice Gelega King, chairman of the commission of inquiry into the Auditor
Generalıs Report, yesterday ruled that only President Yahya Jammeh is immune
to appearing before a national court of law, as provided by section 69 of the
Gambia constitution.
Justice King made this ruling against an application filed by Lawyer Amie
Joof, ordering the commission on the Auditor Generalıs Report, to discharge
the chairman of the Kanifing Municipal Council, Abdoulai Conteh, from giving
evidence before the commission.
In his ruling, Justice King argued that apart from the President of the
Republic, every other person in The Gambia, ³is amenable to process and can
be be subpoenaed to give evidence before a commission. We take judicial
notice that the chairman of the Kanifing Municipal Council, Abdoulai Conteh,
is not the President of the Republic of The Gambia. The legal points raised
by Miss Amie Joof can best be made after Mr Conteh completes his testimony.
We therefore refuse the application of Miss Joof to discharge Mr Abdoulai
Conteh, Chairman KMC.² In his evidence before the commission, Abdoulie Faal,
a revenue collector at the Serrekunda car park, said D438,250 was jointly
mismanaged by him, former KMC cashier, Abdoulie Bah, and Bakary Drammeh,
former assistant treasurer at KMC, now treasurer at the Brikama Area Council.
He said, the said sum was shared between the three of them. Mr Faal noted
that after the report reached authorities at the KMC, he was arrested and
detained for seven months by the police.
However, he said Abdoulie Bah and Bakary Drammeh were never arrested and they
did not return their share of the stolen money to the KMC. Mr Faal went on to
narrate how the three of them defrauded the KMC through bank deposits after
which they prepare duplicate bank statements that do not tally with original
depositing documents.
He pointed out that when sitting in his office at the Serrekunda car park
some days, Mr Bah and Drammeh would call and asked for certain sums of money
which he would give them, sometimes up to D20,000. Mr Faal also claimed that
sometimes he received the least amount when the money is shared among the
three.
Bakary Drammeh, in his cross-examination, said he had never engaged in such a
deal with Mr Faal and that he, Mr Bah and Mr Faal, never shared any amount of
money. Mr Drammeh said Mr Faal was trying to implicate him. Mr Faal however
countered that statement.
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