Gambia: High Court to Hear 'No Case Submission' Today in NIA 9 Case

The Banjul High Court presided over by Justice Kumba Sillah-Camara will today hear the 'no case submission' by Lawyers EE Chime and CE Mene, the defence lawyers for Yankuba Badjie in the NIA 9 case.

Yankuba Badjie, an erstwhile Director of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is charged with numerous criminal offences along with Sheikh Omar Jeng, an ex-Director of Operation and seven (7) ex-NIA agents. Badjie is jointly charged with 8 others with twenty-five (25) counts including murder, torture and conspiracy. He denied the charges by pleading not guilty to all the 25 counts.

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