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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>A high court judge yesterday rejected a downloaded investigative report published by journalist Mustapha K Darboe of Malagen implicating former permanent secretary, ministry of fisheries, Bamba Banja.<\/p>\n

The former PS is accused of accepting bribe from a Chinese private company which he denied. The prosecutor had wanted the court to tender the report through journalist Mustapha K Darboe, who did a story on Banja in October 2020.<\/p>\n

The judge\u2019s decision not to admit the report followed Banja\u2019s lawyer Abdoulie Fatty\u2019s objection that the said report was a computer-generated document downloaded from a computer despite the prosecution\u2019s argument that his witness is the author of the report and has proper custody.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor later attempted to withdraw tendering of the document but defence lawyer Fatty protested that it was too late as he had already argued why the report must be tendered into evidence.<\/p>\n

In his testimony, Mr Darboe said the \u2018implicating\u2019 audio was shared with him and a BBC journalist. According to him, Banja\u2019s voice could be heard saying \u2018this one I will share with my minister\u2019 and lot of other things.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. A high court judge yesterday rejected a downloaded investigative report published by journalist Mustapha K Darboe of Malagen implicating former permanent secretary, ministry of fisheries, Bamba Banja. The former PS is accused of accepting bribe from a Chinese private company which he denied. 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