By: Nicholas Bass
The registrar of Medical and Dental Council, Doctor Jerreh M. Sanyang Tuesday testified in the on-going medical paper forgery case levelled against Paulo Djabi, a Bissau Guinean national.
Testifying before Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of Banjul High Court, the fourth prosecution witness [pw4], Dr. Jerreh M. Sanyang told the court that his office received a letter dated 4th July 2024 from the office of the Inspector General of Police [IGP].
Dr. Sanyang explained that IGP’s letter sought for information to verify the authenticity of a purported medical paper which was allegedly falsified by the accused, Paulo Djabi.
Sanyang, however, when asked by the lead prosecuting lawyer Mariama Singateh to authenticate if one doctor L Faye who was alleged of being the signatory of Djabi’s medical paper which emanated from Kanifing General Hospital ,Dr. Sanyang responded in the affirmative.
Dr. Sanyang told the court that his office sent an official response to the letter of IGP on 9th July 2024.
At that juncture, the state lawyer Singateh applied for it to be admitted and marked as an exhibit and it was accordingly done without any objection from the defense lawyer.
According to Dr. Sanyang every practicing doctor in The Gambia is required to renew his/her licence yearly ,stating that after a thorough search in the data of health practitioners ,he found out that no doctor by the name L Faye exists in the state’s national data.
The defense lawyer, Sheriff.M.Tambadou asked the witness if he had checked the national records of doctors in The Gambia from 1998 up-to-date, Dr. Sanyang vehemently affirmed doing so, but found none bearing such a name.
Meanwhile, according to court records Paulo Djabi in a separate case is accused of four (4) charges of perjury, fabrication of evidence, false swearing and procuring execution of documents by false pretence.
