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More Damning Revelations Against Tamba, Bombardier, Modou Gaye
Yankuba Jambang, Editor & Publisher, Senegambianews.com
Published 03/24/2010
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Witness testimony exonerates Chief of Defence Staff Masanneh Kinteh. Marreh was detained on his orders.
Witness Marreh further
incriminates alleged coup plotters, including Kukoi Samba Sanyang - but
in no way implicates CDS Kinteh; his testimony in fact credits Kinteh
for apprehending the impersonating student---
In continuing his incriminating testimony before a jammed packed courtroom in Banjul on Tuesday, March 23, principal witness Ebrima Marreh told Justice Emmanuel Amahdi that former Chief of Defense Staff, Lt Gen Lang Tombong Tamba and former Deputy Inspector General of police, Modou Gaye, had sent him on spying mission at Farafenni military barracks in 2009 in preparation of the planned military coup against president Yahya Jammeh's government.
While on his way to Farafenni barracks, Marreh said he received a phone call from the former deputy police chief Modou Gaye, instructing him to pass through Yundum military barracks, where senior officers were having a meeting. His mission there was to eavesdrop on the officers and proceed with any information gathered to Farafenni through kanilai, where Lt Col Bombardier was stationed as camp commander.But Marreh said there was no such meeting being held at Yundum barracks, and he called Modou Gaye and informed him that there was no meeting . Marreh said the former police chief then instructed him to go to
Principal witness Ebrima Marreh, a student who claimed he was instructed by Lt Gen Tamba and Modou Gaye to disguise himself as an intelligence officer, said he left Yundum barracks after speaking with Lt Col Yorro Jallow on the phone and headed for Kanilai, where he spent the night with Lt Col Kawsu Camara (Bombardier). At daybreak, Marreh continued, he left for Farafenni to meet with camp commander Yorro Jallow.
While at Farafenni where he spent a night, Ebrima Marreh said he told camp commander Yorrow Jallow that some 300 mercenaries who disguised themselves as merchants, were coming from Guinea-Conakry through Guinea-Bissau and neighboring Senegal to attack the Gambia.
Director of Public prosecutions, Richard N. Chenge, interjected and asked Marreh what his mission was at Farafenni army camp. The witness said his mission was to 'pave the way' for the mercenaries to meet with Kukoi Samba Sanyang in the western Senegalese region of Thiès.
Marreh also told the court that while at Farafenni camp, he asked the camp commander to drive him to the nearest border with Senegal. But he said the current Chief of Defense Staff, Gen Masanneh Kinteh called farafenni camp commander and said he wanted to speak with him (Marreh). He said they then drove back to the camp from the border.
According to Marreh, once they got to the camp, commander Yorro Jallow told him that he was instructed by Kinteh to ask him to produce his intelligence 'warrant ID card', which he (Marreh) said he never had. He said he was then placed under arrest at the camp.
Ebrima Marreh also told the court that he called both Lt Col Kawsu Camara and former deputy IGP Gaye and inform them of his arrest. But he said both men asked him not to mention their names, and instead instructed him to say that Masanneh Kinteh, Yankuba Drammeh (then deputy chief of staff), former IGP and former NIA director general sent him. Marreh went further to say that Lang Tombong Tamba had in fact told him earlier to say Masanneh Kinteh sent him if he were caught.
Defense attorneys Hawa Sisay-Sabally, Sheriff Tambedou and Pap Cheyassin Secka are expected to cross-examine Ebrima Marreh tomorrow.
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