By: Nyima Sillah
The popular Essa Mbye Faal, former lead counsel at the rested TRRC but yet to submit its report has said the Barrow-led government is not interested in implementing any Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) report.
Essa Mbye Faal who is now a presidential aspirant for the upcoming December 4 election said victims have suffered greatly in the hands of a terrible dictatorship for the past twenty-two (22) years.
“I have sat with many victims in hours of interviews narrating all the terrible things that have happened to them. Some of the victims have passed through horrible things,” he said.
Also, he said If the government failed the Gambian people to do its responsibilities, then the Gambian people should hold them to account. Adding that, the government is not interested in prosecuting Jammeh which will be the greatest betrayal of the government to the Gambian people.
He called for collaboration in ensuring justice for the victims saying “if we don’t do that, we will be failing in our responsibilities to them. Any individual who participated in enforcing impunity will be betraying the aspirations of the Gambians,”
“I have zero confidence that the reports of the TRRC will not see the lights of the day under this government. We said no to impunity, to injustice, to reconciliation, without justice, the perpetrators must face justice,” he added.
According to him, if the government does not act, Ghana will act, if Ghana doesn’t act, West Africa would act just to ensure justice for the victims, and urged the victims to remain calm and wait for justice.
“In a government (that will be led) by Essa Faal, be rest assured that the perpetrators will face justice be it in this country or elsewhere,” he said.
Sheriff Muhammed Kijera, Chairman of the Victims Center also thanked Mr Faal for visiting the center. “We want the next agenda of the incoming president to be the implementation of the TRRC recommendations,” he said.
Mr Kijera said the victims have no doubt that a government led by Essa Faal the TRRC recommendations will be fully implemented. Adding that, Faal has done a lot for the victims
