By Adama Makasuba
The TRRC heard on Thursday former President Yahya Jammeh’s vilest killer Sanna Manjang cut the head of a Casamance rebel off his body and then cut his body into pieces.
Ensa Keita told the probe former army lieutenant colonel Sanna Manjang killed Kajali Jammeh in Kanilai after the Senegalese came into the country to sell the illicit drug cannabis. It happened while Keita was arrested and detained in Kanilai.
He told the probe: “He used a cutlass. He didn’t place him (Jammeh) on the ground and slaughter him. They (Sanna and fellow soldiers) and Kajali were standing and speaking. He (Sanna) had a cutlass in his hand. They stood facing each other. He told Kajali, ‘I will kill you, you will not return to Casamance, you guys come with guns and commit crimes here’.
“Kajali told him, ‘yes, I am an MFDC rebel but we do not go around committing crimes, I only brought something to sell to make a living’. He told him, ‘you’re lying’. He then told him, ‘my discussion with you will be brief’.
“I was standing at the door and listening to the conversation. Badjie was sitting down watching on as Sanna stood while another soldier friend stood behind him. He later came to know it was Sulayman Sambou.”
The prolific killer then told the ill-fated rebel his time in this world was up.
Keita told the TRRC: “He said to Kajali,’ you time has come to an end, I see nothing other than to kill you; I arrested you, you didn’t beg me; instead you punched me and tried to escape.’
“I never imagined he would behead him. I never imagined a human being would face a fellow human being and take a cutlass and cut off his head. But when he swung the cutlass, blood spattered everywhere as Kajali’s tongue kept wagging in his mouth. He then went over and stamped on Kajali’s head.
“He then turned and said, ‘Solomon, bring me a bag’. Sulayman then came, dipped his hand in his pocket and removed a bag. He opened the bag and Sana then picked the head, he put his fingers in his nose and put it in the bag and left.
“Badjie and others came to clean the blood but Sana came and got angry. He asked Badjie, ‘did I ask you to clean this place?’
“He then ask Badjie to bring him (his body) and place it on the concrete slab. He told Badjie, ‘it’s crocodiles who will eat him’. He then cut his legs. He then came to his waist and cut it. He then tore the upper part of the body into two pieces. Sulayman Sambou then brought an empty sugar bag. When they put him in the bag, Sana held one end of the bag and Sulayman held the other. They then faced where the lions where and said, ‘behind the lions, are crocodiles’. When they returned, he told Badjie to clean the place. “
