The nation’s one-time top spy official Momodou Hydara has said killed Daba Marenah told them then-President Yahya Jammeh was accompanied by Mauritanian special forces amid the 2006 Ndure Cham coup.
Ndure Cham, the nation’s army chief, in March 2006 attempted to overthrow Jammeh while he was on a visit to Mauritania.
Testifying before the TRRC on Thursday, Momodou Hydara who is a former deputy director general of the NIA said the director general at the time Daba Marenah told them the president and his entourage returned to the country prepared.
Hydara said: “We later heard that the president is coming back home with the entourage. By then they said the safest place we can all meet is at the counter-terrorism unit because it was based in Bijilo.
“When we went there, we had a brief meeting to strategise issues since the president is coming and then this thing is going on. The president came, Daba came with him and we had a brief meeting at the counter-terrorism unit. We briefed him and he also briefed us that the soldiers will take care of everything.
“In fact in that meeting he made known to us that they were also prepared when they were coming. Because the Mauritanian special forces were onboard but they didn’t disembark.”
