Modou Ngum has disclosed what slain politician and activist Solo Sandeng told them as they prepared to march against former President Yahya Jammeh’s rule.
Sandeng led a group of UDP supporters in April 2016 to protest against Jammeh’s rule. They were arrested and detained during which detention Mr Sandeng got murdered.
Modou Ngum took part in the protest and today he detailed what the brave activist told them moments before they staged the protest.
“Solo told us, ‘we are going on a demonstration but whoever gets arrested, tell them it’s Solo Sandeng who put us into this’,” Ngum told the TRRC today.
Ngum had earlier on testified on how they met at Tippa Garage and went to UDP’s bureau in Manjai Kunda where they held a meeting presided over by Mr Sandeng.
He said: “When I got to Tippa Garage, I called Solo Sandeng, he told us ‘it’s (meeting) at Manjai Bureau, let’s go there’. I was standing there and Nogoi Njie and her high power delegation came. Solo and his high power delegation also arrived shortly after.
“We went to Manjai bureau, went upstairs and sat there. Solo Sandeng brought out the banners and Wudeh Ceesay. She is now a protocol at the office of the president. When Solo brought those banners out, many of my people were not literate. So I read the banners to my people. I translated it to Mandinka.”
