Fabakary Tombong Jatta Says TRRC Is a Joke

PHOTO Tombong Jatta (PHOTO Credit Online)

By Ousman A. Marong    

The party leader of the opposition Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) Fabakary Tombong Jatta has described the Truth Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) as a joke. 

Jatta told NEWS BITE that the execution of the remains of November 11^th, 1994 alleged coup plotters was nothing.  

Jatta challenged Gambian’s to remember 1981 coupled by Kukoi Samba Sanyang where almost thousands of Gambian’s were buried in a mass grave.

  “APRC is not part of the TRRC and our reasons are as follows Alhagi Barrow was part and percale of the December 30^th attack and he into America where he was caught and jailed”, he remarked.

He added that when Alhagi Barrow was returning back home from exile, he was welcomed like a king.

“Should Gambian’s take someone like Alhagi Barrow with serious?” He questioned.

He queried that how can someone like Alhagi Barrow be entrusted to serve as a board member at the TRRC?

“How can you appoint someone like Alhagi Barrow whose hands are already dirty to the TRRC?”

He made this disclosure in his Tallinding resident yesterday after embarking on a nationwide tour with the party surrogates.

Jatta questioned whether the upright men of this great nation are no more existing to serve the TRRC instead of people like Alhagi Barrow whose hands are already stocked with blood.

He said another reason why they (APRC) rejected the TRRC was that the 1997 constitution stated that there is no guarantee on any courts base on commissions to warrant an investigation into any institution or person since July 1994 up to December 1^st, 2016.

He challenged the Justice Minister to advice the government on a certain clause of the law.

He said there should be no investigation of commissions probing into the former head of state’s financial dealings, but was quick to add that they (APRC) never deny anybody or institutions to investigate the financial dealing of the former head of state.

He poised that before the Barrow administration start their investigation into the financial dealing of an ex-president, they must first change the 1997 constitution first.

He disclosed that if the president violate the constitution, the MP’s have all the rights to impeach and oust him out.

“Is it that all our MP’s wanted?”