Army major Yahya Darboe on Wednesday told the TRRC he made up his mind his time on earth had come to an end shortly after the door of a Mile 2 cell was locked behind him.
Yahya Darboe in 2006 was arrested and jailed after he took part in a coup plot against then-President Yahya Jammeh’s rule.
And speaking to the TRRC, Darboe who is now a major but a captain at the time of the March 2006 coup plot stated: “Definitely, I have made [up] my mind that my time has finished, [finally] I am going to die. So how the family is going to fend without me was what I was thinking about.”
Darboe had first told the TRRC how leader of the coup former head of the army Ndure Cham met him at the Brusubi Turntable and told him he was relying on him for the coup.
On the night of the coup on March 21, Darboe was arrested in his house in Brusubi after he told his co-coupist Wassa Camara that the coup had failed because their leaders were not picking up calls.
