Enssa Keita, who underwent through various degrees of tortured in the hand of late Musa Jammeh on Thursday to Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission he returned to the country with intention to kill Musa Jammeh’s and his family.
Keita, former sand and gravel dealer has told the Truth Commission that he together with his colleagues have cheated Gambian businessman Amadou Samba by stealing his fuel and engaging his lorries to transport sand and gravel to Kanilai without his knowledge.
He said, he intended to attack the late Major Musa Jammeh home with self-prepared bomb and he was going to put it a car and run in to Jammeh’s home.
Keita, told the commission that he underwent various tortured, revealing that he also witnessed many killing by late Major Musa Jammeh and Sanna Manjang during his detention in Kanilai inside home of former President Yahya Jammeh.
The 56-year-old said he is a native of Baddibu Kinteh-Kunda Marong-Kunda in the Central Baddibu, and he met up with his tortured and detention following his demands of payment for sand and gravel he supplied to one Azziz Tamba who was overseeing the building project of the former President Yahya Jammeh’s elder brother in Kanilai.
Keita said, he was in Kanila on that day to receive his payment from Azziz Tamba who called, but upon arrival it was late Major Musa Jammeh who received him.
He told the commission that he experienced various tortured in the hand of late Major Musa Jammeh and it ex– army Colonel Kawsu Camara, AKA Bombardeh that assisted him to escaped.
He further said as a fugitive, he made some effort to recover his money from Azziz Tamba, revealing that he reported the matter to Halifa Sallah office and after explaining his ordeal; he was given a letter to take to State House.
Keita said, after few week no respond, he decided to go back to Halifa office and informed than that since he dropped the letter no call from State House, revealing that another letter was written for him to take to State House.
“Upon my arrival, I handover the letter to a man and he asked for my name, I called my name Ensa Keita and I also asked his name, and he said he is Captain Tumbul Tamba. He told me to go and also the big man is travelling, but promised to get back to me.
After few days he called me with private number and I didn’t considered it as a call because there was no number showing. It was a friend that told me it was a call and I picked. Tamba told me that the big man left your money with here and is with me. I will call you for us to meet and I will hand it over,” he told the commission.
According to him, after receiving the call he went next to door to see a Marabou, and in the process the man told, “I can see you going, but you are not coming and is dark.”
He said after that Tamba intensify the calling and told him that do you know Westfield, he answer yes and Tamba told me when you get there come to cooperative you will see us.
According to him, he decided to discussed the matter with wife, who also told him that she went to checked day ago and this your money problem came out in that checking and it was in the dark
“From that point, I decided to change my mind, but Tamba continues to call and at the end I asked him his relationship with one Azziz Tamba, he told me they are brother. I told him, for this money I was nearly kill in Kanilai, but God help me to escaped, so you can take the money and I insulted,” Keita told the TRRC.
He said from that night he was not comfortable and he decided to auction his land 100 by 100 for D100, 000.00 to go into exile.