BANJUL, THE GAMBIA—The high-profile corruption case involving some personnel of the Gambia Immigration Department, has reached the Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service, the Freedom Newspaper can reveal. The accused officers will soon know their fate.
Reports have it that the Inspector General of police is on the verge of submitting the outcome of the criminal probe spearheaded by the detectives at the police headquarters in Banjul. The police report, according to sources, will lead to some heads rolling at the Immigration Department.
It would be recalled that some senior Immigration officers at the GID headquarters and at the seaport in Banjul, have been implicated in this grand theft of government revenue. Over D1.4 million of visa fees collected from a visiting Dutch tourist cruise boat was shared among the officers.
The following officers and people were named in the corruption scandal:
Sulayman Colley, Chief Superintendent
Modou Jammeh, Assistant Superintendent
Fatou Cham, Chief Inspector, also the wife of Immigration Deputy DG Seedy Touray
Metta Kujabi, Chief Inspector
Ramatoulie Gaye, Inspector
Omar Ceesay, Immigration cashier
Aleem Faye, Shipping Agent
“Evidence herein exposed that the D180,000.00 received by Omar Badjie, which he said was going to be shared among some senior officers at the headquarters as in D100,000.00 for the Deputy Director General, D30,000.00 for Sambujang Badjie, D50,000.00 for him Omar Badjie, was never delivered and there is no evidence to collaborate his statement. Thus this is considered absolute greed with a view to implicate his superior and deny government from revenue,” the GID intelligence report stated.
According to the report, the sum of D300,000.00 was given to the agent of the ship Aleem Faye, a Banjul native, while the officers at the GID headquarters and at the seaport received D3,200.00.00 out of the stolen government revenue. GID Cashier Omar Ceesay reportedly handed the funds to officer Omar Badjie, who according to the report in turn took D180,000.000 out of the D3.200.00, which he shared among the senior officers at the GID headquarters. The remainder of the funds were shared among the officers at the seaport, the report stated.
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