Lamin Bo Baaji said he reacted by telling Solo Bojang God is good when the soldier walked to him and slapped him as he got taken in for questioning at the NIA.
Baaji was arrested in November 2009 and taken to Mile 2 prison after being accused of having knowledge of the 2006 Ndure Cham coup. He was later taken to the NIA where he was questioned.
“They asked whether MA Bah did not tell me Lang Tombong Tamba was planning a coup,” Baaji who was director of intelligence in the military told the TRRC on Thursday.
“It was Solo Bojang who got up from where he was seated and walked to where I was sitting and slapped me. I said to him, ‘Solo, it’s me you’re slapping?’ I told him, ‘I think you have lost control of yourself, you’re so powerful to the extent you’re slapping me?’ I told him God is good,” he said while recalling his encounter with Solo Bojang who allegedly was a member of the feared Junglers.
Baaji then testified on his conversation with late NIA top official Sukuta Jammeh: “He (Sukuta) said sir ‘you will understand’. I asked him what is there for me to understand. A coup that took place three years ago and they are bringing that today. He told me ‘sir, you have to sacrifice’. I asked him what should I sacrifice for. He said, ‘you should accuse Lang’.
“Yes it’s something that happened. I told them that he was not a part of it. He is in the other world and I am here. This is what he said. He said I should implicate Lang. I asked Sukuta that I worked with him and whether he knew if I was someone who is known for lying. I said I will not do it, I will prefer to die.”
