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Woman duped of her money

Dec 20, 2023, 11:57 AM | Article By: Dawda Faye

Two young men were yesterday arraigned for allegedly duping a woman of her money. The complainant, one Binta Touray, made startling revelations against Biram Bah and Dawda Jallow before Magistrate Touray of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court.

She told the court that sometime in November, 2023, she was waiting for her husband in his shop while he was out. She revealed that she received a call from someone to either call his father for him or send him some credit. She further stated that she told him that she would not call his father for him but would send him some credit. She said that he was using an Africel line. She went on to say that she sent him D20 credit.

“I sent him D20 credit and he told me that I am a kind woman. He again asked me to send him D650 which I did through wave. The following day he asked me to send him D10,000. I did so through the same process. He also asked me to send him D5,000 and I did so. He again asked me to send him D1,200  to buy incense. I did so. I also sent him D1000 credit. He then told me that I should visit him at his home at Jarra Buiba to pray for me,” she told the court.

Binta Touray further testified that she went to Jarra Buiba to visit the man. She adduced that she was all the time speaking to Biram Bah. “When I arrived at Jarra Buiba, I informed him on the phone that I did not know the place. He told me to wait for him to pick me. But it was Dawda Jallow who came and picked me on a motorbike and took me to the bush. I found Biram Bah and other men in the bush, sitting on a mat with their prayer beads. They then applied some charm on my face and hands, and whatever they asked me to do, I would do,” she narrated.

At this juncture, Sub-Inspector Kebbeh applied for an adjournment until today for the witness to continue her testimony.