Bubacarr Bah who was CID officer at Barra Police Station in 2005 has told the TRRC then CMC Yankuba Sonko told him they treated UN investigators to alcohol and women as they travelled to the country over the massacre of West African migrants.
West African citizens most of them Ghanaians were murdered in the 2005 on the orders of former President Yahya Jammeh as they attempted to reach Europe.
According to Bubacarr Bah, then CMC of police Yankuba Sonko asked him not to divulge anything to the investigators should the occasion arise.
Bah told the TRRC on Thursday: “He [Yankuba] said to me, ‘these UN people are coming here, make sure if you’re called, make sure you don’t say anything’. ‘They were here but then we took them to bars, gave them alcohol and women’.
“I have sworn, what I’m saying is the truth. I will not swear here and lie. He said they drank alcohol and got women and they left but ‘this is our country, in case they’re going to come back, don’t talk to them’.”
Bah also told the TRRC the murder of the migrants was ‘unbelievable’ and those responsible should pay.
“Those who are responsible for this act, they should not be forgiven. They should face the full force of the law,” he said.
Sonko is now the Minister for the Interior.
