Police in Gambia have arrested and detained former intelligence chief of former President Yahya Jammeh.
Yankuba Badjie was arrested and detained along with the Agency’s former Director of Operations Sheikh Omar Jeng. They were detained late Monday at the Brusubi Police Station and currently helping police in their investigations.
Yankuba Badjie headed the dreaded and brutal agency during former dictator Yahya Jammeh’s rule with several human right violations.
He was removed in late January as the intelligence chief with the new government of President Barrow renaming the agency to State Intelligence Services (SIS).
Mr Badjie has ever since been accused of being a chief enabler of former President Jammeh in most of the ungodly activities been conducted in the country ranging from arbitrary arrests, detention, tortures, disappearances and even killings.
It could be recalled that its was during the leadership of Mr Badjie at the NIA that former opposition UDP member Solo Sandeng was tortured to dead.
Meanwhile, Ex-Operations chief Sheikh Omar Jeng who is also arrested is blamed for masterminding the severe tortures meted on the female opposition UDP members arrested during the April 2014 peaceful protest led by late Solo Sandeng.
With the arrest of Mr Badjie and Jeng, Gambians are with the believe that there will be answers to the then gross human rights violations especially the activities of the most feared NIA Agents under former President Jammeh.
