The accused persons are currently in police custody and charged with attempted murder & conspiracy to commit felony. They are expected to be arraigned in court.
Inspector Alieu Jamanka, deputy police spokesperson who was contacted for comments, confirmed the development, saying: “Three men were recently rounded up by personnel of the West Coast Regional taskforce headed by Chief Inspector Musa Nget. The men all from Mandinari were part of a gang that tied up 2 boys, dumped them into an abandoned well at the outskirts of that village, set them ablaze before they were removed and taken to the driver to be killed."
The police, he said upon hearing the matter went to the scene and arrested the ring leader, one Yahya Gassama.
The state counsel in the case of the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) victims has told the Banjul High Court presided over by Justice Ebrima Jaiteh that the Attorney General was ready to settle the matter out of court.
A seven -day nationwide regional consultation on Food Systems Summit Dialogue (FSSD) has kicked off in Basse, Upper River Region (URR). The dialogue is aimed at soliciting the views of all stakeholders nationwide on how the country would achieve the UN goal to end hunger by 2030.
PURA says it is concerned with the proliferation of abusive, uncouth and incendiary language on some radio stations in the country, warning such actions would not be tolerated in the country.
Ebrima Sillah, the new minister of Transport, Works and Infrastructure, together with his permanent secretary and other senior officials of his ministry, on Tuesday 5 July, 2022, visited the head offices of The Gambia Civil Aviation Authority(GCAA), in Yundum and The Gambia Maritime Administration(GMA), in Bijilo.
