Former lieutenant colonel Lamin Gano said ‘yes, counsel’ when TRRC lead counsel Essa Faal insisted former President Yahya Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS cure was false.
The former leader stunned the world in 2007 when he proclaimed discovery of a cure for HIV/AIDS. He rejected requests to share with world details of his cure, although it involved patients eating banana and drinking liquids.
His one-time top aide Lamin Gano squared off with Essa Faal on Tuesday in a showdown that spanned one hour and forty minutes – one that sometimes saw jokes deployed.
“Yes, counsel”, the former president’s former ADC responded when persistent Essa Faal put to him the former president’s cure was false.
Gano who served as former President Jammeh’s ADC for 18 months had all throughout stood his ground in avoiding the word ‘false’.
“My opinion was that it failed, it was not sucessful,” Mr Gano told Essa Faal on occasion.
“And because it failed, it was false?” an insisting Essa Faal said in his final question.
“Yes, counsel,” Gano replied.
