By Adama Makasuba
The first person to be pinned during the course of former President Yahya Jammeh’s 2009 brutal witch hunt exercise has said a packs of condom incident could have led to his victimisation.
Mustapha Ceesay, a former police officer was accused of being a sorcerer in 2009 after he refused to accept packs of condom that were being distributed freely to police officers who were set to be deployed to Kanilai, former President Yahya Jammeh’s hometown.
Mr Ceesay testified before the TRRC on Tuesday saying he found the incident which happened in 2005 ‘very insulting for the morale of security forces’.
Ceesay was later punished and barred from going to Kanilai – and five years later became the first person to be branded a witch by a band of witch doctors as part of a witch-hunt campaign that was authorised by Jammeh.
Mr Ceesay told the TRRC: “I came to understand that President Jammeh brought these witch doctors from Guinea Conakry after the death of his aunt and two of his protocol officers – Musa Jammeh and Tumbul Tamba.”
