When Adama Sidibeh took his case to the Bundung Magistrates’ Court for arbitration, little did he know that he would be also charged for aiding and abetting crime. But in a dramatic development yesterday, Adama was also charged alongside the very people that he instituted legal action against.

He had brought a law suit against two Guinean nationals, claiming that the duo had received D10,000 from him on the pretext of multiplying it to D150,000.

However when the case was mentioned on Tuesday, Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara, presiding, issued an order for Sidibeh to be equally charged because she wasn’t convinced that his hands were clean with regard to the entire transaction in question.

She told the court that Sidibeh was economical with truth and that she was suspicious that he [Sidibeh] was an ally in crime. He was, therefore, charged and given bail in the sum of D100,000 with a Gambian, who must surrender a national identification card to the court, as surety.

Meanwhile, Hammeh Touray and Gibril Ceesay, who allegedly hoodwinked Sidibeh into parting with his D10,000, were also yesterday charged and remanded in police custody, pending the resumption of their case later this month.