Lang Tombong Tamba asked the TRRC not to trust Bunja Darboe insisting Darboe flip-flopped over whether he was part of the 2006 coup.
The former army returned to the TRRC on Tuesday but he throughout expressed pain the TRRC lawyer wasn’t willing to believe his side of the story. He every now and then asked the TRRC lawyer Essa Faal to take the account of those he thinks were right in their account and leave his.
The latter part of part two of his testimony saw him questioned on Bunja Darboe, one of the people who staged a coup against former President Yahya Jammeh in 2006.
“Chairman it is this same Bunja who denied his involvement in the coup. He sat on this chair and he said yes it was a coup, he was involved. So how could these kinds of people be trusted?” Tamba told the TRRC chairman Dr Lamin Sise.
He continued: “If he can deny his involvement there, at the court martial but before the panel he confessed his involvement.
“Denied it at the court martial, was seated on this chair and he confessed to his involvement and even strengthened his statement to say if the president of a particular country is not doing the right thing, the military should involve.
“I think you also intervened and advised him. I watched that proceeding and I saw you advising that if the president is not doing the right thing whatsoever, it is not right for the military to stage a coup. You advised him on that. So these kinds of people how could they be trusted? And he was already aggrieved. So you don’t expect him to sit here and say the right things.
“On the issue of Bunja, Bunja was the first person to know about the coup plot by Ndure Cham, so his involvement was clear. When he was first arrested, he appeared before the panel that day, he was the one who mentioned the names of the other coupists and I can swear to the Holy Quran again we seated him comfortably and he was asked to explain.
“That was how he explained about the coup, without nobody touching him. So the issue of Bunja, he should not be trusted.”
Bunja Darboe had on Monday lashed out at Tamba saying he was making a fool of the TRRC.
