Lang Tombong Tamba’s marathon testimony ended with the former army chief asking the TRRC to look into the sacking from the military of people who did not commit any wrongdoing.
“I also want to make a plea to this commission, there are certain things that I want them to look into,” LTT began on Wednesday afternoon shortly before pulling the curtain down on his marathon testimony which spread across three days.
He said: “I have noticed that there is a particular group here that have been left out. The present government is composed of almost all the tribes, all Gambians. However I have noticed that there are people who have been left out. There are officers who did nothing at all who have been relieved of their duties and I believe that if we want to move forward that should be discouraged.
“By this I mean the likes of navy captain Sillah Kujabi, Colonel Bojang, Brigadier General Savage, I have a list I could not remember all in the list. These are people that I have not heard anything that they committed. This is something that hurts in the heart. Probably this commission may not know. These people, most of them I mentioned they belong to the Jola tribe.
“I know of former managing directors were relieved of their duties. Probably they belong to one tribe and I don’t think this will help if we say we want to move forward as a country. I recall in the days of former president Yahya Jammeh, in fact in his cabinet, there were no more than two Jolas there as ministers. In the military people who handled chief of defense staff positions most of them were not Jolas.”
