Media Foundation for West Africa (Accra)
4 July 2008
press release
Justice Momodou Darboe, a journalist with The Point, a Banjul-based privately-owned independent daily newspaper, was violently attacked by an armed man on July 1, 2008.
Darboe suffered serious body injuries.
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) sources report that the assailant, wielding a knife, ambushed the journalist and attacked him after he got down from a taxi around his house in Serrekunda, Gambia’s second largest city.
“I left Kairaba Shopping Centre around 11pm to go home. When I reached the junction of Wellingara, I disembarked from the vehicle I was in and walked in the direction of my compound. Before I reached the safety of my home, a man came from behind and attacked me with a knife,” The Point reported Darboe as saying.
He said although it is difficult to establish the motive of the attack, his assailant made no attempt to rob him of any belonging.
Sources report that the assailant took to his heels when he saw people coming toward the scene.
Darboe later received treatment from a hospital and the matter was reported to the police.
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