Essa Faal sparred with Lamin Jobarteh after the former justice minister provoked him by telling him he (Faal) would not know if he spoke the truth if he told him he was in Gibraltar the night of the execution of nine inmates.
Former President Jammeh in August 2012 ordered the execution of nine Mile Two inmates and there are claims before the TRRC Jobarteh was present when the ill-fated convicts were killed.
He appeared before the TRRC on Thursday but he insisted he was never present during the brutal extermination of the prisoners.
But he appeared to have angered Essa Faal when he told the lawyer: “Even if I were to tell you I was in Gibraltar, how would you know I’m not saying the truth.”
“Don’t test me Mr Jobarteh, try it,” Faal told Jobarteh, as things degenerated into a back and forth.
“But you tell me where I was,” Jobarteh fired back.
“No you try it by giving me a position ‘tell me where you were,” Faal said.
Jobarteh in responding said: “I maintain my position. I do not know where I was at that time.”
“So you would not take up the challenge?” Faal asked him.
“Why would I refuse to take a challenge?” Jobarteh asked back.
“Well, take it. Try it. Tell me this is the place you were,” Faal said.
“One place I can presume to have been was at my house,” Jobarteh said.
Later, Jobarteh told Faal he had two houses – in Bakoteh and Old Yundum – but he would not know which one of the houses he was on that night.
He later read out his mobile numbers to Faal who asked for them. The lawyer was then granted the power to fetch the call records of the numbers.
