By Awa K Sanneh
Alkali of Ghana town, Ismaila Jagne, has told the TRRC that he found blood oozing from the mouths and noses of some murdered West African migrants in forest at the outskirt of the and that he believed Ghanaians were among the dead bodies because he saw tribal marks on face of one of the dead bodies.
Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is accused of ordering the killing of about 45 African migrants in 2005, which many of them were Ghanaians. The migrants were said to be travelling to Spain by boat.
Mr Jagne, 58, said: “I found the corpses and blood was coming from some of their mouths and noses and I recognised a tribal mark on one of the faces of the corpses which I believe must be a Ghanaian.”
“Well people are killed in many ways but according to my observation I cannot tell exactly what instrument they used to kill this people. But what I realized and attested to is that I saw them bleeding. However, what we heard about these eight corpses was that they have collected them and been taken away.”
He said he was not at the side “when the corpses were collected and take away but what we heard was they were collected and been taken away.”
