One
Amat Ceesay was recently arraigned before Magistrate Gomez of the Kanifing
Magistrates’ Court, charged with obtaining money by false pretence.
He denied the charge and was granted court bail of D60,000 with a Gambian surety who must swear to an affidavit of means and deposit an ID card.
Hearing was adjourned till 15 July 2015.
Police
prosecutors alleged that Amat Ceesay, in the month of June 2015 at Kanifing
Estate in the Kanifing Municipality, obtained the sum of D31,000 from one Nyama
Conta with the pretext that he would make him renowned and very rich within
their community, which impression he knew was false and impossible.