Gambia’s ex-junta member charged with murder
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Retired Captain Yankuba Touray, a member of the defunct Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) that brought Yahya Jammeh to power in The Gambia in July 1994, has been charged with murder, reports reaching PANA here said Tuesday.
His charge is in connection with the death of Ousman Koro Ceesay, a former minister of finance, during the time of the junta in 1995.
He was charged with murder, contrary to Section 187 of the Criminal Code Cap 10 Volume 3 Laws of The Gambia 2009.
The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) last Wednesday ordered the arrest and detention of Touray for refusing to testify and questioning the legitimacy of the commission
Touray is yet to make his plea on the allegations and was remanded at Mile II State Central Prison to reappear on 8 July, 2019.
The state was represented by Abubacarr Tambadou, Gambian Minister of Justice and Attorney General, but Touray was not represented by a lawyer.
The charge against Touray was that sometime in the month of June 1995 at Kololi in the West Coast Region of The Gambia, within the jurisdiction of the honorable court, with malice and aforethought, caused the death of one Ousman Koro Ceesay by beating him with a pestle- like object and other dangerous weapons, thereby committing an offence.
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