Retired Captain Yankuba Touray, a member of the defunct Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) was Yesterday Monday arraigned and charged with ‘Murder’, at the High Court in Banjul yesterday.
His charged is in connection with the death of Ousman Koro Ceesay, a former minister of finance during the time of the junta in 1995.
He is yet to take his plea on the allegations and he is remanded at Mile II State Central Prison. Case continues on 8th July, 2019.
Last week Touary refused to testify, before Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) citing a Constitutional immunity on him, the Commission ordered his arrest. The lead counsel of the Commission Essa Faal said Touray’s claim immunity does not exist.
Statement of offence: Murder contrary to Section 187 of the Criminal Code Cap 10 Volume 3 Laws of the Gambia 2009.
Particular of offence alleged Yankuba Touray that sometime in the month of June 1995 at Kololi in the West Coast Region of The Gambia within the jurisdiction of the honorable court with malice and aforethought caused the death of one Ousman Koro Ceesay by beating him with a pestle- like object and other dangerous weapons thereby committed an offence.