Omar Jallow, former Agriculture Minister told the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) that the Senior Army Officer would ‘every’ morning come to his cell and told him they (soldiers) are waiting for instructions to kill him and his fellow detainees.
He was testifying as witness number twelve, told the commission on Monday that: “He comes every morning… Almamo Manneh with Bubacarr Bah come every morning to remind us that, ‘we are waiting for Oga’s Command and we’ll kill all of you, cut you into pieces and throw you for the dogs’. Also, for the first one month, we were sleeping on the ground, in the sand. Again, they refused for us to take a bath, to wash our faces or to change our clothes.”
He lamented that Lieutenant Colonel Bubacarr Bah was part of a group of State Guard soldiers who arrested and tortured him in the wake of the 1994 coup.
“They were led by Musa Jammeh. They called him Malian Mungo. In addition to that we then saw Almamo Manneh with so many soldiers. But other people joined them like Bubacarr Bah whom I saw on Television… I think he’s now promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He was then in the training school.He’s from Buniadou.
He was the one who deliberately beat me on my eye and broke my eye,” the veteran politician told the TRRC. He noted that a senior Gambian Army Officer broke his eye while torturing him.