Tamsir Jassey who got 20 years over the March 2006 coup has told the TRRC former head of the army never left the country following his misfiring coup.
“There is one thing I want the nation to know: Ndure Cham never left The Gambia,” Tamsir Jassey told the probe on Monday.
When asked how he knew that, Jassey said: “I was talking to Ndure Cham about twice or three times a week from an Africell phone number in his location outside Farafenni. He would even send me money.”
According to Jassey, Cham lived with a guilty conscience which caused him not to live on asylum in Germany.
“He told me on several occasions he wants to organise a prison break. I talked him out of it because I felt he was speaking more out of guilt and a lot of people would have died had been any form of an armed attack of the prison,” Jassey said.
Cham headed the military but was eliminated following an unsuccessful coup he masterminded in March 2006. A jungler told the TRRC they put a plastic bag over his head and suffocated him to death.
