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| Saikou Ceesay |
The Gambia Press Union (GPU) paid D100, 000 (close to $3, 300) to help avoid a “jail term” for one of its members, Saikou Ceesay, a senior journalists working with the Daily News.
On
Wednesday, the magistrates’ court in the Gambian capital Banjul, presided over
by Magistrate Tabally ordered him to pay in cash D100, 000, being a bail-bond
he signed on behalf of the former Sports Editor of the pro-government Daily
Observer newspaper, Mr Nanama Keita.
Mr Keita
has since fled to the United States of America, where he was attending a United
Nations (UN) fellowship for young journalists across the world. He had earlier
on alleged receiving "death threats" text messages on his phone.
Keita
was standing trial on “giving false information to a public officer”, a charge
he denied and called “bogus” after he left the country. His trial emanate from
a petition he wrote to the Office of the President claiming “wrongful
termination” of his job at the Daily Observer.
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