Gambia: Daily Observer Deputy Editor-in-Chief Denies Charges Against Him

Mr. Alagie Jobe, Deputy-In-Chief of the Observer newspaper, has yesterday, Wednesday 4 December, denied all the allegations preferred against him by the prosecution. In his evidence-in-chief before Justice Emmanuel Nkea of the Criminal Division of the Banjul High Court, Jobe said, "I want to deny the entire charges levelled against me. I will never do anything with seditious intention. I have served the Daily Observer for 13 years. I am one of the longest serving editors in the company. I have ever been loyal to the President of the republic, government and Daily Observer as a company."

Deputy Editor Jobe] told the court that the panel of investigators at the National Intelligence Agency [NIA] had refused to accept his statement that the former Managing Director of Daily Observer, Pa Malick Faye, was the right person to be questioned about the said article.

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