By Adama Makasuba
A band of witch-doctors cut the throat of a cock during a ceremony where senior police officers were asked to pledge their allegiance to then-president Yahya Jammeh, it has been revealed.
In 2009, former President Jammeh shocked the nation by lauching a campaign that targeted people who were believed to be witches. Witch-doctors numbering six raided communities with the help of soldiers armed with AK47 rifles and those who were cuaght were pressurized to confess to murders by sorcery.
Ken Mendy, a policeman on Monday detailed how the so-called witch doctors forced senior police officers at the police headquarters in Banjul to pledge their allegiance to former President Yahya Jammeh by standing over sacrificial pit of a cock under a palm tree.
“These witch hunters were having a cock and the cock was slaughtered under a palm tree and all the people paraded were taken to this palm tree to swear their allegiance to the president and the IGP was the one leading this process,” Mr Mendy told the TRRC.
Another police officer Abdou Colley has also told the TRRC the witch doctors raided offices in their search for witches.
The men were dressed in red costume and always carried mirrors, horns and cow tails as they forced those they believe to be witches drink concoctions.
