By Landing Colley
A businessman has gave a comprehensive story of how he was inhumanly tortured by the personnel of the notorious National Intelligence Agency in 2007 when he appeared before the TRRC on Tuesday.
Mumine Baldeh told the Commissioners that despite his arrest and torture at the NIA that he wasn’t charged with any crimes up to date.
He accused Edrisa Jobe who he said was an NIA officer of tormenting him in detention. He said Edrisa Jobe asked other state (spy) personnel to disrobe and make him knelt on the gravel stones for hours.
“Edrisa Jobe asked Lamin Darboe to bring stone and asked me to removes my cloths. They took the stone and put it on the floor and made me knelt on the stones then Lamin Darboe came with a wire and struck my back and entire knee got bruise,” he said.
Meanwhile, he explained that around 10pm someone came to my house who he identified as an officer from the NIA and asked him: ‘are you Mumine?’, while he was told to answer to the police headquarters in Banjul.
He added that his (name) “is Musa Kinteh after showing me the identity card but they were four in numbers, others wore masks then we board a vehicle to Banjul and upon our arrival we came back all the way to Kutu Police Station.
“We met Edrisa Jobe that was the time: he asked me ‘do you know why we arrested you?’ and I responded in negative, then he told the other policemen to keep me in their custody until Monday (the following day).”
He said: “my cloth and watch were taken off and I was having one thousand seven hundred which was given to the police then when I was put in the cell.”
I found it very difficult to breath in the cell due to lack of enough ventilation after spending two days at Kutu Police Station, he said.
“On Monday morning Edrisa Jobe came, we boarded a vehicle to Banjul at NIA headquarter later Musa Kinteh found him sitting and asked do you know why they arrested him then he replied negative,” he added