Maggit, criminal investigation is long over due.  However, you really expect
our cops or the NIA to be able to investigate an D800 million heist?  Right
now, I am picturing what this bunch you have in mind would look like, and I
got to tell you I could not stop laughing.  As hard as I try, all I can see
is a "monoor" drinking, cola chewing, and a Camellia smoking hustler, that
will line up to investigate almost a billion Dalasi heist.  You must be
kidding me!  Folks, how do you think the Nic Kujabi, Tex Khan, Lie Mouti,
Sergeant Jambangs of this world conducted investigations, let's say a coal
pot thief (that was their favorite victim)?  If you guess flogging and
electrocuting you to a coma, come on down, for you are the grand price
winner.  You think if they yank any innocent Lalonding or fatou Ndong at the
CB and give them merciless beatings and electrocution for days and months,
they will not break down and confess to something they know nothing about?
Let us cut the crap and bring in independent fraud examiners and
knowledgeable investigators with banking and finance experience to follow
the money.  Loop in interpol and other international money laundering
investigators to be on the trail.  That money is not in the Gambia folks, it
is spread at banks near you and I.  Don't line me up some shmucks who don't
even know what inflation means to uncover a billion dalasi theft.  These
folks cannot ID a billion Dalasi if you put it in a quiz, much more tell you
what the CB does.  Maggit, you were there for the past 10 years looking at
the dog gone thing, why don't you tell Gambians what you know and stop
playing dodge ball, for starters.





Police should investigate missing D800M Margaret Keita
Written by Sheila Akomiah & Ramatoulie Charreh
Thursday, 27 October 2005
Following the discovery of D800 million shortfall in the 1991 to 1999
national audit report, the former secretary of state for Finance and
Economic Affairs, Margaret Keita, has called on the auditor general to make
a formal report to the Inspector General of Police to enable them
investigate the matter.


Mrs Keita, who was the Accountant -General at the time, and a chief witness
in the case, said: “The discrepancy which was discovered six months ago when
the 1991 to 1999 audit report was presented to the Public Accounts Committee
(PAC) of the National Assembly has been a matter of hot debate, and criminal
investigations should be launched into the case as required by the law,” she
said.



However, responding to Mrs Keita’s call, the Auditor-General, Baboucarr
Sankary, said it was too early for any formal complaint to be made to the
police regarding the matter.
“This is a case where bank statements and documents claimed to be in the
Central Bank are missing.  We haven’t gotten to the stage yet where it is
certain that the shortfall is as a result of something fraudulent or
criminal. We are merely saying that there are shortfalls and there could be
reasons for that,” he explained.



But Mr Sankary noted that the issue of criminal investigations had to be
carefully looked into; and the first step to do that is to identify the
person or persons responsible for the problem.
“What we need at this point is honest and decent explanations from the
people on the ground as to how and what caused this problem,” he said.
Members of the PAC committee of the National Assembly agreed with Mr
Sankary’s argument, noting that the amount involved is colossal.



At the close of the hearing, an order was made for the general manager of
The Central Bank to appear before the committee to help trash out the issues
surrounding the missing funds.

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