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Mar 11th

Gambia North Bank region governor arrested

Alhagie Edwarr Seckan, governor of Gambia’s North Bank region, was on Friday arrested in his office by officials of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).

The governor was taken to the Serious Crime Unit at the Police Headquarters in the capital, Banjul, where he is being detained, sources told PANA.

No charges have been made against Seckan and it is not clear why he was arrested.

However, the sources said it could be linked to allegations made against him by Suku Sighateh, Member of Parliament for Lower Baddibou, who has told the National Assembly that Seckan had threatened to have him dead before the end of the current raining season.
 
Banjul - 17/07/2009

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