Home : News : Gambia News : Witness confirms Editor Pap Saine was born Gambian
Gambia News : Witness confirms Editor Pap Saine was born Gambian
A prosecution witness in the nationality case involving Pap Saine, the
Co-publisher and Managing Editor-In-Chief of The Point newspaper in
Gambia, on Wednesday confirmed that the journalist was indeed a Gambian
by birth.
At the resumed trial of Saine, who is accused of not being a
Gambian, witness Dawda Leigh, a birth and death registration officer at
the Medical and Health Department, told Magistrate Lamin George that
"going by the record on the birth certificate belonging to Pap
Baboucarr Saine No:CLR2/289/74, the records tally with the file that in
our possession, and going by the hand writing on the birth certificate
and signature of the registrar, these are similar to other records in
our po s session".
He said: “I conclude that the said birth certificate belonging to Baboucarr Saine is authentic.”
Pap,
whose false publication and broadcasting charges in another case were
dropped by the state Tuesday, is being accused of being a Senegalese
and not a Gambian.
The case was adjourned to 22 April.
1763 times read
- About 10% of Gambians holding Gambian passports and birth certificates are non-gambians, icluding, the president and his bother-inlaws from Morocco
(Posted on April 24, 2009, 7:48 PM Asta Jeng)
- @ceesay:
Well, Cassamance is full of Gambians anyway, isn't it? On the run for witch hunters...
(Posted on April 11, 2009, 2:20 AM Lamin Jallow)
- good news. so when will we ever see proof that the president is Gambian. I hear he was born in cassamance..
(Posted on April 10, 2009, 3:23 PM ceesay)
|
|
|
Rate this Gambia Article
 (total 6 votes)
|
Gambia News
Gambia Archive
Newsletter
Poll: 2011- Gambia General Election
Comment on This Gambia News (3 posted)
Syndication
