Salimina Drammeh expressed displeasure after TRRC lawyer Essa Faal told him he lied over his claims he only knew about two incidents of torture at the NIA.
“I’m ashamed to tell you that you lied,” Faal told Drammeh who was appearing before the TRRC as a top ex-official of the NIA.
The TRRC has in the past weeks been holding hearings on the NIA – an institution bastardised by former President Yahya Jammeh and used for the detention and torture of Gambians.
Drammeh who served as director of operations at the NIA felt offended when Essa Faal told him he lied by saying he knew about only two incidents of torture at the NIA.
“You don’t tell an elderly person that you are lying,” Drammeh told Faal.
“But in this business, a lie is a lie. We don’t maslaha (compromise) the truth here. The lie is a lie,” Faal replied.
“With courtesy please,” Drammeh fired back.
Faal then capitulated and said: “I’m being super courteous now by telling you that was false and be courteous enough to accept the truth. You agree?”
Drammeh in replying simply said: “Yeah.”
