By Mama A. Touray
Members of APRC, loyalists and supporters of Ex-president Yahya AJJ Jammeh have denounced appointments of Commissioners of the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) as they held a march-walk from Arch to the Ministry of Justice to deliver a petition of dismay about the formation of the TRRC and others issues against APRC.
They want The Gambia president Adama Barrow to dismiss the Commission’s report while they said they will not recognise legitimacy of the inquiry into human rights violations happened under the leadership Ex-president Yahya Jammeh.
“Our petition is geared towards the processes and the process throughout the course of the TRRC had been compromised very seriously. We have said at the onset that the TRRC will be the killer-blow, that never move us,” APRC’s interim leader Fabakary Tombong Jatta told reporters in Banjul.
“The petition is holistically about the Truth Commission and not the recommendation of last week and anything illegal should not be recognizing by the government. If the government sets the Commission of inquiry, then the appointment of the TRRC executive body should be done by the government, the report should be considered illegal because it will be prepared by people who are not illegally appointed,” he added.
Meanwhile, he continued that “Baba Galleh Jallow who is the Executive Director of the Commission should not be part of the Commission because throughout his journalistic career was a critic to the former government saying that Baba Galleh Jallow went to the extent of threatening the government demanding full implementation of their reports. Dr (Lamin) Sise is not qualified to be the chairman of the Commission when we have other independent and non-partisan groups in The Gambia,” he stated.
He added that: “Yankuba was asked to speak before the Commission and he refused by seeking his constitutional immunity and the Commission decided (and) sent him to the Attorney General who we heard that Yankuba will be taught a lesson and he was charged with murder of former Minister of Finance Ousman Koro Ceesay.”
He said if those who are confessed to have murdered people and are still working freely in this country then why YankubaTouray alone should be prosecuted.
