In Dumo Sarho And Co Treason Trial 

High Court Urged to Discharge Accused 

DPP, Seventh Accused Absent

The Independent (Banjul)

December 10, 2001 
Posted to the web December 10, 2001 

Banjul 

By Pa-Ousman Darboe

At the resumption of the treason trial involving Dumo Saho, Lt Lalo Jaiteh, Lt. Omar Darboe and four others, the counsel for the defense Ousman Sillah has urged the high Court to discharge the accused persons because the Director of Public Prosecution Chief Akomaye Agim and the seventh accused Abdoulie Sanyang continually fail to present themselves in court.

Lawyer Sillah told Justice Grante Thursday December 5 that he believed that the seventh accused person Mr. Sanyang who was granted bail by the court might not have been served notice that the case will be heard on this day. He argued that DPP Agim was aware of the matter which made his absence unexplainable.

Lawyer Sillah posited that proper proceedings couldn't take place with the absence of the seventh accused Sanyang and DPP Agim. He however told the court that quick proceedings should take place by virtue of the urgency of the case, which is a criminal matter.Lawyer Sillah was informed by Justice Grante that he would take documents from him in the presence of DPP Agim in the next adjournment date.

Meanwhile it could be recalled that Dumo Saho, Lt Lalo Jaiteh, Lt Omar Darboe, Ebrima Yarbo, Momodou Marenah, Abdoulie Sanyang and Barrow were last year charged for treason by forcefully trying to overthrow the democratically elected government of President Yahya Jammeh. The seven accused are still languishing at Mile Two Prisons. One of them Abdoulie Sanyang was granted bail. Their families, relatives and friends turned up at the court in large groups, weeping as the men were escorted back to prison by armed military escorts.

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