Gambia: 'Memo From President's Office Asked for Their Arrest and Prosecution' Says PW One

Sergeant Sheriffo Barrow, a CID officer attached to Sanyang police station, who testified as the first prosecution witness (PW1) in the ongoing land case involving ten people, including women, told the lower court in Brikama that the accused persons were arrested and prosecuted following an instruction in a memo from the Office of the President.

The ten are accused of encroaching into the president's land in Tujereng and surrounding. They all denied the allegation.

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