Modou Jammeh, Saikou Tambedou and Banta Jaiteh were recently arraigned and charged with obtaining money by false pretence, making documents without authority and making false documents, before Magistrate Omar Jabang of the Bundung Magistrates’ Court.
According to the particulars of offence, on 18 August 2014, at Brusubi Kombo North, West Coast Region, the three accused persons allegedly conspired among themselves to wit, make false documents without authority, and also obtained D816,000 from one Ebrima Jaiteh for a plot of land, with the knowledge that they have no land for sale.
All the accused persons denied the charge preferred against them and were each granted court bail of D890,000 with two Gambian sureties, one of whom must deposit his or her ID card and also deposit his or her title deed.
The IGP was represented by Sergeant 1883 Bajang.