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 Posted - 08 Feb 2007 : 01:23:37
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MAN ARRAIGNED FOR GIVING FALSE INFORMATION TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
By Modou Jonga
A man residing at New Yundum village in the Western region, Momodou Alieu Jallow, was on Tuesday arraigned in court for giving false information to a public officer contrary to Section 114 of the criminal code. The case was presided over by Magistrate E.F M’bai of the Brikama Magistrates Court.
The alleged false information according to the statement of the said offence, was on or about the month of September and October 2006 at New Yundum, that the accused gave the information to the office of the president that his daughter (Fatoumata Jallow) was hit by the presidential convoy and died which at the time of the making of the said information was false.
In narrating the facts of the alleged dissemination of the false information, the Police prosecutor 413 Sanyang said that it was on the 12 September last year when the head of state was returning from his provincial tour (meet the people tour). As a result, said the prosecutor, people were out to cheer him up including also the accused and his family outside their compound in New Yundum village. The prosecutor said that an Ambulance numbered GG4278 coming from the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) in Banjul to Brikama driven by one Momodou Camara hit the accused’s daughter (Fatoumata Jallow) who died.
The matter stated the prosecutor was reported to Yundum Police station and the Police came to the scene of the accident. According to the prosecutor, all the necessary steps on the matter were taken by the Police.
Speaking further, the prosecutor said that the accused being the father of the deceased wrote to the Police for the withdrawal of the case against the driver (Momodou Camara) and said that the accident was caused by the will of God.
A copy of the withdrawal letter by the accused was tendered in court and admitted as evidence. An affidavit signed by the accused stating not to conduct a post-mortem on the deceased was also tendered and marked as evidence.
According to the prosecutor, sometime between September and October last year, the president of the republic was on a survey tour on the highway between Westfield and New Yundum when the accused was present with other people; that it was then when the accused explained to one of the Protocol officers that his daughter (now deceased) was knocked by a vehicle among the presidential convoy when the latter was coming from a provincial tour. The accused, said the prosecutor, was thus advised to write a letter to the president’s office and which the he did.
According to the prosecutor, the letter by the accused stated that the accused’s daughter (Fatoumata Jallow) now deceased who was about seven years was hit by a vehicle among the presidential convoy; that upon the receipt of the said letter, at the president’s office an investigation was mounted to verify the claim; that the investigation’s findings revealed that an accident occurred at New Yundum in which a girl was knocked by an ambulance; that the investigation concluded that the accused gave false information as stated in his letter addressed to the president’s office and it thus recommended that the accused be charged for giving false information.
The accused, when asked by the presiding magistrate whether the facts narrated by the prosecutor are correct, said the facts are incorrect. At this juncture, a plea of not guilty was entered by the court for the accused. The case was thus adjourned to Wednesday 14th February, 2007.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 015/2007, 7-8 February, 2007
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