Judgment in the case involving Momodou Jarju alias Rongo and Abdoulie Mbye alias Efry Mbye, was not delivered as expected yesterday at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court before Principal Magistrate Taiwo Ade Alagbe.
It was postponed to 1 November 2012.
Momodou Jarju alias Rongo and Abdoulie Mbye alias Efry Mbye are being tried for giving false information, making false documents, uttering false documents and prohibition of conduct conducive to the breach of peace.
It would be recall that the prosecution called several witnesses including the village Alkalo of Banjulinding, Eric Thunder Janneh and some members of council of elders in Banjulinding, as well as Lamin Gassama and Musa Ndure, both officers of the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA), in support of the prosecution’s case.
The accused persons also opened their defence and called witnesses including some first settlers in Banjulnding.
Both side tendered documents as exhibits in support of their case.
The particulars of offence on count one stated that the accused persons, some time in 2010, in Banjul and diverse places, gave false information to the Ministry of Local Government and copied the same to the Secretary General, Office of the President, to wit Alkalo Eric Thunder Janneh, was disuniting the people and grabbing land at Bunjulinding in the West Coast Region and that the President’s Office acknowledged Mr. Malang Badjie as the chairman of the council of elders of Banjulinding.
Count two stated that the accused persons, some time in 2010, in Banjul and diverse places, wrote petition to the Secretary General, Office of the President that the villagers of Banjulinding were not in support of the Alkalo Eric Thunder Janneh, who was grabbing lands and disuniting the people of Banjulinding.
Furthermore, count three stated that the two accused persons, some times in 2010, in Banjul and diverse places, knowingly and fraudulently presented a petition letter to the Secretary General Office of the President, to wit that the villagers of Banjulinding were not in support of the Alkalo Eric Thundeh Janneh, who was grabbing lands and disuniting the people of Banjulinding.
And count four stated that some time in 2010, in Banjul and diverse places, they conducted meetings with the people of Banjulinding in a manner likely to cause the breach of the peace.
