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On January 15, for the first time publicly, a former prison guard gave evidence before a Swiss court on the murder of former Gambian businessman and politician Baba Jobe while detained in 2011. At the time, the accused Ousman Sonko was Minister of Interior. But he claims he didn\u2019t give the order, and that the army was in control of the prison, under the direct authority of former president Yahya Jammeh.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Baba Jobe was a business partner and close ally of Yahya Jammeh, who ruled The Gambia with an iron fist from July 1994 to January 2017. He enjoyed a great degree of power and popularity during the time he worked in government. He was the majority leader in parliament for the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction, Jammeh\u2019s party. Then he fell out with the dictator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 2004 Baba Jobe was convicted for economic crimes. He served his prison term of 9 years and eight months at Mile 2 prison<\/a>, on the outskirts of Banjul, Gambia\u2019s capital city. But when he completed his sentence he was not released. According to his wife Tida Jaiteh\u2019s testimony before the Gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC)<\/a>, when she asked the director general of Mile 2 prison David Colley<\/a> about her husband\u2019s release after he completed his sentence, Colley referred her to the Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, who she said never accepted her request to meet despite her coming to his office on three occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is when a number of \u201cJunglers\u201d, Jammeh\u2019s death squad \u2013 Omar \u201cOya\u201d Jallow, Pa Sanneh, Michael Jatta, Malick Manga, Mustapha Sanneh, Nfansu Nyabally, Sulayman Sambou and Momodou Jarju alias Rambo \u2013 were given access to the room of Baba Jobe, where he was suffocated with his blanket, according to Omar Jallow\u2019s testimony before the TRRC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamin Sanneh\u2019s testimony<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On the day Baba Jobe was killed, a prison guard was deployed to the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital to watch over him. This guard was Lamin Sanneh. On January 15, the Swiss Federal Court in Bellinzona, where Ousman Sonko is being tried for crimes against humanity, heard from prison officers of The Gambia Prisons Services. This was the first time Sanneh, a former orderly to Colley (now deceased), publicly testified about the murder of Baba Jobe. He had not come forward before the TRRC, although the commission had his written statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was on a weekend when I was called by Director General David Colley when I was informed that I was posted at the Edward Francis Small Hospital. The evening of 7 October 2011, I was informed by David Colley and told to go and guard Baba Jobe. He told me strange or unknown men would come and I should not challenge them, otherwise I would lose my life,\u201d Sanneh told the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Sanneh, he did not know that the Junglers had come to kill Baba Jobe. The President of the court told the witness that when Omar \u201cOya\u201d Jallow, one of the Junglers who confessed to the TRRC to participating in this operation, was interviewed by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, he said: \u201cThe security guard that we met there knew. He said the patient was sleeping and the doctor had just left. When we went, we suffocated him and left.\u201d But Sanneh denied he knew about the plan earlier on. \u201cI was feeling very bad because had I known about it before I went there, it was better for me to resign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked if Colley mentioned that he received these instructions from Ousman Sonko, the witness said: \u201cHe did not tell me that but I knew that whatever David was doing, the minister was aware. David will feed the minister [with information]. He will feed him in and out of the prisons daily, whatever is going on there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was put to the witness that several individuals, as well as media reports, said Jammeh was responsible. The witness was slightly reluctant to comment on this. \u201cI cannot say that it\u2019s true. Maybe what they said is true, but I can\u2019t say that it\u2019s done by Jammeh.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked why Colley chose him specifically for this operation, Sanneh said: \u201cThey just sacrificed me. I was being sacrificed. This is how I see things. Because normally, it\u2019s not supposed to be like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sonko\u2019s defence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The court told the accused that Colley claimed that he had informed Sonko that Baba Jobe had fallen during an exercise with other prisoners and had been taken to the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, and that a few days later Sonko had called to inform him about a visit to Baba Jobe by army member Nuha Badjie. According to Colley, when he informed Sonko that other prison officers were already on sight, Sonko asked him to send them away and replace them with a senior officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defendant read out the statements of four prison officers \u2013 Lamin Sowe, Bakary Kujabi, Yahya P. Jarju and Momodou Jarju \u2013 who Colley had said were part of a panel to choose a guard who would be posted at the hospital. The four statements were made at the Gambia Police Force on March 14 and 15, 2018. The four officers denied being present at any such panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since according to Colley\u2019s claim, he wanted a senior officer deployed at the prison, Sonko\u2019s defence lawyer asked his client whether Sanneh, who was an orderly at the time, was qualified for the task. \u201cThe rank Lamin Sanneh had at the time could not qualify him as a senior officer,\u201d Sonko replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBaba Jobe was sick and taken to Edward Francis Small Hospital. He was admitted at the main ward, that is the \u2018Shell\u2019 ward. It was on the orders or executive directives from the State House that he was moved to the private block and this executive directive was communicated to him [Baba Jobe] by two management [staff] at the hospital,\u201d Sonko explained in response to a question from his counsel. \u201cDavid Colley as director general of prisons had special relations with the president. He was able to do some things without passing through the ministry. They came from the same village, and they had that bond in between them. So the president was able to talk to David Colley directly without even passing through the minister,\u201d the accused further said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the testimonies and media reports that said Yahya Jammeh was responsible for the killing of Baba Jobe, Sonko replied: \u201cBaba Jobe was Majority leader in parliament representing APRC, that is the ruling party of Yahya Jammeh. So he was not a political opponent. He was charged for economic crimes, he was tried and sentenced accordingly. So I don\u2019t consider him a political opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No post mortem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After Baba Jobe was killed, his body was handed over to his family without a post mortem being conducted. According to his widow, she did not allow it. She told the Gambia\u2019s truth commission that they had suspicions that her husband was killed and that the post mortem would have been conducted by the very people who killed him. \u201cThe one that kills you pays you condolences and announces your death,\u201d she testified to the TRRC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWas it you who instructed for the body to be given to the family?\u201d the president of the court asked the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes, I did and it is based on an affidavit in which they [the family] swear that they don\u2019t want a post mortem to be conducted. When [prison officer] Bakary Kujabi went with them to the hospital and they said they don't need post mortem to be conducted, they came to the ministry and they were asked to write it formally,\u201d replied Sonko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou won\u2019t take a human being there\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Asked about torture, Sanneh explained: \u201cWell, throughout my experience, some inmates would be tortured whilst they are taken away. Those inmates, whenever you asked, they said they were taken to the NIA [National Intelligence Agency]. Most of the time, the Junglers would come there. They would pick inmates to NIA and after, when they bring them back, you would know that this guy has gone through something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanneh was not the only one to testify on prison conditions. Abdou Jammeh is both a former prison officer and a former prisoner at Mile 2, where he spent nine months in detention in 2016. He initially began testifying in Jola, a local dialect in The Gambia, and later changed to Mandinka. \u201cMile 2, I worked there and know people there,\u201d he told the court. \u201cIt is not a clean place. It is not clean because when you see their toilet, you won\u2019t take a human being there. Some places are big halls. Those in remand on trial, their cells are tight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to both officers, they were not aware of any steps taken by former minister Sonko to improve prison conditions. When the defence lawyer put it to Sanneh that Colley, in his  testimony before the TRRC, had said that maximum security facilities were controlled by the military, Sanneh said Colley was just running away from responsibility, \u201cbecause as director general, nobody can come to your place and tell you what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sonko contested this, claiming that during that period the military was responsible for the maximum security wing. \u201cAnd up to the date I was relieved, state guards were responsible for the prisons except the main entrance where you had prison guards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDid you have authority over the military?\u201d asked Sonko\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo,\u201d replied the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n

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