FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)
Bubacarr K Sowe
8 March 2008
Multiple cases of stealing against two senior personnel of the military and the police are before the Banjul Magistrates' Court as the prosecution pressed more charges on Wednesday.
Lieutenant Bakary Camara, body guard to President Jammeh, has two cases of stealing to answer, while his co-accused, Superintendent Manlafi Sanyang, controller of government vehicles is involved in three cases of stealing before the same Magistrate.
Both men alongside Momodou Lamin Sonko, proprietor of Boto Construction were first charged with conspiracy, stealing and economic crime. Lt. Camara was later charged with stealing and giving false information. All the two cases involving Lt. Camara are in respect of a government vehicle he allegedly stole. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Meanwhile, his co-accused was on Wednesday, March 5, arraigned before Magistrate Kayode Olajubutu on a charge of stealing a government vehicle which he pleaded not guilty to.
While Supt Sanyang was in the dock, another case of stealing was called against him and Lt. Camara, but the charge against Lt. Camara in this particular case was struck out by the Magistrate. The squashing of the charge against Lt. Camara followed an objection by his lawyer, Lamin Camara who argued that it is exactly the same charge he is facing in a separate case on the same subject matter.
The prosecutor, Inspector Yaya Touray disagreed and said that the objection is premature.
Supt Sanyang who was detained despite a million dalasis bail granted to him on his initial case was again granted bail for these two new cases. The conditions of this latest bail are a 200,000 dalasis bond and a surety who should be a senior civil servant not less than the rank of a permanent secretary in any Department of State.
However, Lamin Camara who is representing both Sanyang and Camara harped on the continuous detention of the accused persons when they had been previously given bail over two weeks ago.
All cases against the two senior security officers were adjourned till Monday, March 10.
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