Dear Readers:

I am forwarding the email below on behalf of a concerned Gambian. It is a
news story from The Point Newspaper

Coach



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>Subject: Magistrate Convicts President Jammeh's Chief Driver
>Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:36:03 +0000
>
>Coach for Post and G-L
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>Culled from The Point of Monday February 23, 2004
>
>Wulinding Sanneh who claimed to be the president's Chief driver was last
>Tuesday convicted by Magistrate Richard of the Kanifing Magistrates Court
>for stealing a milling machine belonging to Kanilai farm.
>
>According to the charge sheet, Wulinding Sanneh stole a milling machine
>worth D80,000 from the Kanilai farm store and offered it to one Alhaji
>Banta Camara of Basse for sale.  However, Mr. Camara reportedly rejected
>the offer and Mr. Sanneh was later arrested by the Basse Police.
>
>In his testimony, Sanneh admitted stealing the machine but revealed that he
>had been working at the president's farm for about five months without
>salary, blaming Manlafi Jarju for the lack of payment of his salary
>because, he continued, Manlafi Jarju has been serving as the go-between him
>and the president.  In his judgement, Magistrate Richard said that the lack
>of payment of the accused's salary for five months could not justify his
>theft of the milling machine but noted that the employer should have known
>the plight of his employees.  He observed that as the accused was a first
>offender and did not prevaricate, the court would exercise some degree of
>lenience and fine him D1,000 in default to serve three months imprisonment.
>
>Furthermore, he ws given another six months suspended sentence, two of
>which the accused had already served while in detention.
>
>inspector Joof represented the IGP at the trial.

Reprinted from The Point Newspaper of Monday 23rd February 2004

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