The TRRC’s top lawyer Essa Faal said on Wednesday the investigation will not dance to the tune of any individual or institution less than 24 hours since a Jammeh to Justice press conference in Ghana.
Ghanaian activists on Tuesday held a press conference where they suggested not much will on the part of the TRRC to bring Jammeh to Justice over the massacre of 44 Ghanaian migrants in The Gambia in 2005.
Essa Faal speaking to reporters on Wednesday reacted: “The TRRC takes the massacre of the 56 West Africans very very seriously. We take very seriously any single loss of life, let alone the senseless massacre of 56 West Africans. I think it is known to everyone that as a result of the TRRC investigations and public hearings those who carried out those massacres publicly confessed to having carried out the massacre and explained how all happened.
“We have not completed our investigation of the massacre of the West African migrants. We’ve done the first part which is to bring out the evidence of the junglers who carried out the killings and I think that put to rest the question as to whether those migrants died and where they were killed and by whom they were killed.
“The TRRC has been in contact with representatives of Jammeh to Justice who are very much interested in this, and the last few weeks we have outlined a plan as to what the TRRC intends to do. We have informed them, I have personally informed them that we would call about five witnesses from Ghana and we told them the type of witnesses we expect to call including Kyere himself.
“The TRRC will not dance to the tune of any individual or institution, we will not be directed to or be dictated by anyone as to what to do or how to do our work. We will do it to the best of our ability. We will do what we believe is right.”
