Dear Readers: I am forwarding the email below on behalf of a concerned Gambian. It is a news story from The Point Newspaper Coach >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Magistrate Convicts President Jammeh's Chief Driver >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:36:03 +0000 > >Coach for Post and G-L >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~