By Lamin Njie
Alagie Martin has come under heavy fire over allegations he masterminded the torture of detainees at Mile Two prison.
Former AFPRC vice chairman Sanna Bairo Sabally on Thursday told the TRRC the top Gambian army general was the leader of a torture team that visited him at Mile Two prison during his detention there.
Sabally claimed the team visited him more than 20 times and meted out various forms of torture to him including waterboarding, castration and enforced homosexual behaviour. The alleged incidents happened more than two decades ago when Martin was only a sergeant.
The former AFPRC junta No. 2’s allegations are on the back of similar allegations made by Lieutenant Colonel Baboucarr Sanyang of the Gambia Armed Forces.
Sanyang told the TRRC in March that Martin bossed a team of torturers who tortured him during his detention at Mile Two Prison in 1995.
Gambians have taken to social media on Thursday and on Friday to launch vicious attacks on Martin – now a brigadier general in the Gambia Armed Forces – with many calling for him to be sacked from the army.
