Captain Jangum: The late Ousman Koro Ceesay was assassinated in a mafia way

By Ousman A. Marong

Captain Amat Jangum of the Gambia Armed Forces has told the Truth Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) that the late Finance Minister under the AFPRC junta, Ousman Koro Ceesay was assassinated in a mafia way,

He testified that those of them (the guards) present at Captain Yankuba Touray’s resident in Kerr Sering where Ceesay was killed were fooled in a way they couldn’t even understand,

According to him. Ousman Koro Ceesay was assassinated during ex-president Jammeh’s visit to Ethiopia.

He said Yankuba Touray fooled them (the guards) that there were troops who wanted to come and overthrown the council member.

He added that as Yankuba Touray was seeing the president off to the airport he ordered them to evacuate his family to Ewdard Siganateh’s house before he returned.

Jangum was testifying before the TRRC at Dunes Hotel in Kololi.

He alleged that Yankuba Touray ordered them after evacuating his family into Edward Signateh’s house to go straight to the beaches to be monitoring and see as if they would see any warship trying the invade into the county.

He informed the commission that they went to the beaches at around 10:00 to 11:00PM to see if they would intercept any warship.

“While at the beaches it started to rain and I asked my colleagues to return back to their guard post at Yankuba’s resident,” he added.

He further explained that as we arrived at Yankuba’s house they saw Edward Signateh smoking in a wet army uniform with moody combat boots.

On the following day, Yankuba Touray’s wife, Mamie Ceesay came with a newspaper to break the news of the death of Ousman Koro Ceesay.

He said he then read the newspaper with Mamie where it was mentioned that Ousman Koro Ceesay was involved in an accident and he was found death along the Jambur Highway.

He narrated that in a week a later he read from Freedom Newspaper in an interview with Captain Ebou Jallow that the late Ousman Koro Ceesay was assassinated in a mafia way in Yankuba Touray’s resident in Kerr Sering when AFPRC junta council members fooled the guards on the ground.

He said after reading Ebou Jallow’s interview he knew what Ebou said was true, recalling from what had happened and that what Yankuba Touray ordered them to do. 

PHOTO: Captain Jangum (PHOTO Credit (TRRC)