The former Vice President of The Gambia, Dr Isatou Njie Saidy is accuse of lying when she alleged that students first shoot at the security personnel during the April 10th-11th student demonstrations.
This revelation was made to the Truth Commission by Abdou Karim Jammeh, a April 10th student victim who suffered from gunshot injuries that put him on crutches.
“Isatou Njie Saidy was lying when she said students broke into the armory and took weapons to shoot at security operatives,” Abdou Karim remarks.
The student victim ridicules the former vice president’s statement that students were the ones who first shoot at the security operatives which he said was a concoction. He adduced that the former President Yahya Jammeh who was out of the country at the time gave the orders to shoot unarmed school children through his former Vice President, Isatou Njie Saidy.
“If she is telling the truth why then there is not a single security personnel injured from gunshot,” he told the commission.
“The proof of her lies was that after the incident all of the casualties were students.”
The witness told the Truth Commission that 14 students were killed in the incident and several others seriously injured by gunshot wounds including himself. He said the bullet hit the back of his leg and passed through the knee. He fell down unconscious in a gutter until a good samaritarin came to help and took him to the RVTH Hospital.
Abdou Karim Jammeh recounts the bitter pains and sufferings that they endured in the past 19 years since after the incident resulting to some of them on wheelchairs and crutches without proper medical treatment.
“We could not continue with our education like our colleagues some of who are now doctors and project managers. I wanted to be a doctor but that dream was stopped by this terrible incident.”
Mr Jammeh calls on the new administration to look into their plight as some of them are silently suffering.
“We want justice now,” he concludes.
The witness finally said that they would want to be independent people rather than receiving charities.