Gambia: Ex-GPA MD Tambedou Arraigned, Charged

31 December 2012

Police prosecutors Friday brought a charge of giving false information to a public officer against Abdoulie Tambedou, former Managing Director of Gambia Ports Authority (GPA), at the Banjul Magistrates' Court before senior Magistrate M.S. Jallow.

According to the particulars of offence, Abdoulie Tambedou, on 13 August 2012 in Banjul within the jurisdiction of the court, wrote a petition letter with reference number GPA/MD (1) to the Office of the President, alleging that indiscipline was being meted out to him by the associates and relatives of his predecessor, Momodou Lamin Gibba, by way of making derogatory remarks towards him and the GPA management with intent to make the GPA ungovernable for him, and that information he knew to be false at the time.

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