Muhammed
Awo, Sheikh Jallow, Sheikh Jarju, Ousman Sowe and Buba Sanneh were on 14
November, 2019, paraded before Magistrate Dunn Njie of the Kanifing Magistrates’
Court. They have been charged on two counts of robbery and impersonation.
Sergeant
2717 Jallow, who represented the Inspector General of Police, presented a bill
of indictment before the court which indicated that the accused persons jointly
attacked one Binta Ceesay and Alagie Jammeh with a knife, robbed them and took
a bag containing a mobile phone HTC, valued at D3000, cash of D970, a watch and
a US Dollar at Kololi Tavan, in the Kanifing Municipality of the Republic of
The Gambia on 10 November, 2019.
It
was also alleged that they presented themselves to Binta Ceesay and Alagie
Jammeh as personnel of the Anti-Crime Unit, which representation they knew to
be false at Kololi Tavan on the same day.
Sheikh
Jarju, Ousman Sowe and Buba Sanneh pleaded guilty of robbery but Muhammed Awo
and Sheikh Jallow did not own up to any responsibility.
All
the accused said that they did not represent themselves to Binta Ceesay and
Alagie Jammeh as personnel of the Anti-Crime Unit.
Magistrate
Dunn Njie subsequently remanded them at Mile 2 Central Prison, and adjourned
the case for the prosecuting officer, Sergeant 2717 Jallow, to make a lineup of
his witnesses for the commencement of the trial.