Lang Tombong Tamba looked annoyed when Essa Faal laughed at his statement he did not know Bora Colley as a jungler, a secret killer of former President Yahya Jammeh.
“I’m not familiar with the junglers, these are junior soldiers,” Tamba had earlier testified when as if he knew the junglers.
The TRRC lawyer Faal then began to read out the names of some of the junglers to him. Tamba said he knew some personally and do not know others.
“I don’t know for Bora Colley,” Tamba said when asked about if Colley was a jungler, to laughter from Essa Faal.
“What is the laughing about? I said I don’t know him as a jungler,” Tamba blasted back. Faal then responded that he was surprised the former army chief did not know ‘this notorious fact’.
Earlier on, Tamba asked Essa Faal to take his truth or leave it as the duo bickered again amid the return to the TRRC of the former army chief.
Tamba registered his disappointment in Essa Faal when the lawyer questioned him on the arrest and detention of two Gambian journalists in April, 2006.
“You see Mr Tamba you are the one who is affected. By accepting this evidence, the consequences would lie on you. So you would be the only person having an interest in disputing these facts,” Faal told Tamba when the general said it’s incorrect for the journalists to claim he was a member of an investigation panel when they were arrested.
Tamba firing back at Faal said: “It is disappointing if that’s the way you see it. I am here to speak the truth. So you take my truth or you don’t take it. To make such suggestions it’s disappointing.
“That means to say you don’t have trust in me, you don’t have confidence in me based on your conclusions. ”
His testimony continues.
