Njaga Saho, a Personal Assistant and driver to the proprietress of Stop Step Pharmacy and Jays Electrical Company, on Wednesday testified in the on-going D0.5 million theft case involving Alieu Faye, the Accountant of Stop Step Holdings.

Appearing before Principal Magistrate Moses Richards of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court, Mr. Saho said he knows the accused person Alieu Faye. He said on 2nd May 2007, they were given two cheques by Ann Marry Shallop to withdraw D610,47 and D547,547 at the Trust Bank Bakau Branch in order to offset the staff salaries for May. He said Mr. Saho was also given D90,000 cash to deposit to the Stop Step Holding bank account. Arriving at the bank, he said, he joined the queue to deposit the D90,000 cash to the company’s account, while the accused, Alieu Faye went into the branch manager’s office to cash the two cheques given to him by Mrs. Shallop.

He revealed that Mr. Faye came out with the two cheques, saying he could not cash the cheques because there was no enough money at the branch then.
Ajaga Saho revealed that the accused then informed him that he was going back to Mrs. Shallop’s resident, but he said the accusaed refused to wait for him after he had asked him to do so. He told the court that Alieu insisted he had no enough time to wait. He said he went back to the complainant’s house, after depositing the D90,000.

He told the court that as he prepared to pick the children of the Mrs. Shallop from school, the woman complainant enquired what they were doing until the money got lost. He recollected telling Mrs. Shallop that he had no knowledge of any missing money. He said this prompted him to explain to the woman what transpired at the bank, according to the accused.
Mr. Saho told the court that the matter was reported to the police and he went to the station to make a statement about the missing money.