A Gambian presidential contender who headed a truth commission into crimes committed under ex-dictator YAHYA JAMMEH has said he is prepared to prosecute the former leader.
Speaking to journalists, the commission’s lead counsel, ESSA FAAL vowed to implement the recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) if elected in the tiny West African state on December 4.
Findings show that the lawyer’s intervention comes at a sensitive time in The Gambia, where the TRRC findings have been delayed twice and President ADAMA BARROW has formed an electoral pact with JAMMEH’s party.
Reports indicate that JAMMEH seized power in the former British colony in 1994 as part of a bloodless military coup. He was then repeatedly re-elected in disputed circumstances until he was defeated in December 2016 by BARROW.
