The Director of Operations of the National Drug Enforcement
Agency (NDEA) was the latest prosecution witness in the case of a Nigerian
national currently under trial at a magistrates' court in Western Region of The
Gambia.
Sunday Amedi was arrested at The Gambia's only international
airport in July of 2007 when a narcotic drug officer grew suspicious that he
was carrying something illegal with him.
Commissioner Ousman Sanneh recently told the Brikama
Magistrates' Court that he was among officers who were present when doctors
were x-raying Sunday at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul.
He added that he was also at the NDEA headquarters when Sunday ejected 68
pellets of cocaine.
Earlier, Sanneh told the court that the suspect was arrested
in July of last year. ' While at home on 28thJuly 2007,
I received a call from Neneh Sowe-Janneh that she had arrested eight Nigerians
whom she suspected of carrying illegal substances in their stomachs. Sunday was
part of the eight that were arrested,' recounted Sanneh.
The case, presided over by magistrate Edrisa Mbai,
continues.