Baitullah Junior’s Sedition Trial

Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of Banjul High Court on Monday granted an adjournment for the state lawyers to bring the third prosecution witness (pw3) in an alleged sedition trial involving Omar Kujabi. Kujabi who is known as Baitullah Junior, with seditious intend made several WhatsApp audios calling on people to go out onto the streets and march to the State House to unlawfully remove President Adama Barrow. The charges he denied. When the case was called by the clerk yesterday for the hearing of the testimony of the third prosecution witness (pw3), the state’s lead lawyer FatoumataDrammeh told the court that they were unable to secure pw3 and she applied for the court to grant them an adjournment. But defense lawyer Lamin J Darboe, who was not opposed to the State lawyer’s application, made the court quickly adjourned the matter for today (Tuesday), for the hearing of the testimony of the third prosecution witness. It could be recalled that Omar Kujabi sometime in September and October 2022 in Kafuta Village and diverse places in the West Coast Region of the Republic of The Gambia, was alleged to have intimidated and annoyed as well as threatened to assault officers of the Police Intervention Unit (PIU), who were sent to arrest him. He is also accused of causing fear and alarm to the public through his WhatsApp and internet platforms.