The trial involving Alagie Jobe, Daily Observer deputy editor-in-chief, and one Mbye Bittaye, yesterday failed to proceed at the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Hilary Abeke.
Alhagie Jobe was charged with seven counts of making an act with a seditious intention, seditious publication, possession of seditious publication, forgery, making documents without authority, false information and reckless and negligent act, while Mbye Bittaye was charged with unlawful inquiries relating to the possibility of forgery.
When the case was announced, the trial magistrate informed the court that all the lawyers went to attend a workshop, and for that reason, he would adjourn the case.
He then adjourned the case to 14 May 2013.
Count one of the charge sheet read that Alhagie Jobe, between 2012 and 2013, at the Daily Observer Company, in the Kanifing Municipality, did an act with seditious intention to wit: published in a purported Daily Observer Newspaper of 19 December 2012, a false story that “Major Lamin Touray on the run for imminent re-arrest and detention and charged in absentia for breach of office ethics and codes by refusing to take orders in the execution of some people” and thereby committed an offence.
Count two stated that Alhagie Jobe, between 2012 and 2013, at the Daily Observer Company, in the Kanifing Municipality, published a seditious publication on a purported Daily Observer Newspaper of 19 December 2012 to wit: that “Major Lamin Touray on the run for imminent re-arrest and detention and charged in absentia for breach of office ethics and codes, by refusing to take orders in the execution of some people”, and thereby committed an offence.
Count three indicated that Alhagie Jobe, between 2012 and 2013, at the Daily Observer Newspaper Company, in the
Count four read that Alhagie Jobe, between 2012 and 2013, at the Daily Observer Company, in the Kanifing Municipality, made a false document with intent to deceive purporting it to be a Daily Observer Newspaper of Wednesday 19 December 2012, thereby committed an offence.
Count five disclosed that Alhagie Jobe, in February 2013, at the NIA office
Count six read that Mbye Bittaye, between 2012 and 2013, at the Daily Observer Company, in the Kanifing Municipality, made inquiries in the Daily Observer Company with intent to make a forged document on behalf of Lamin Touray and was published in the Daily Observer Newspaper that “Lamin Touray on the run for imminent re-arrest and detention and is charged in absentia for breach of office ethics and codes for refusing to take orders in the execution of some people” and printed and published the same in the Daily Observer Newspaper of 12 December 2012 edition, with intent to deceive, thereby committed an offence.
On count seven, the particulars of offence disclosed that Alhagie Jobe, between 2012 and 2013, at the Daily Observer Company, in the Kanifing Municipality, with intent to deceive and without lawful authority made a document purporting it to be a Daily Observer Newspaper of Wednesday 19 December 2012, and thereby committed an offence.
Count eight stated that Alhagie Jobe, on 8 February 2013, at Tallinding, in the
