Interior Minister Yankuba Sonko has begun giving testimony to the TRRC.
While Sonko is not an adversely mentioned witness, he is appearing before the investigation to give evidence on ‘certain’ events.
He began his testimony Tuesday morning with TRRC lawyer Essa Faal warning him against lying.
“You are a lawyer, so you understand the rules. You have just taken an oath to speak the truth. You know it’s an offence to lie under oath or provide false testimony to the commission,” Faal told him.
Faal also warned him: “We can make this a short hearing, I know you’re a minister of state, we do not want you to spend all your day before the commission as you have other important matters of state to take care of. So we will be happy if you answer the questions directly and we conclude quickly so that you go back to your important functions. But be rest assured Honourable Minister that if we need to spend the time here, we would. So you can make it easy by answering questions directly.”
A witness last week claimed it was Sonko who told him UN investigators who travelled into the country to investigate the killing of West African migrants were distracted through alcohol and women. That witness also said Sonko asked him not to speak to the investigators should they reach out to him.
