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by Binta Senghore.
The former Lead Counsel of The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission and turned politician Mr. Essa Mbye Faal has frowned at The government of President Adama Barrow for rejecting the recommended Amnesty for Vice Chairman of the AFPRC military junta of 1994, Mr. Sanna Sabally.
In a statement posted on his Facebook page shortly after the government stated its position about the recommendations of the Truth Commission earlier today, the former presidential candidate commended the government for seeing beyond politics and accepting 99.2% of the recommendations he and his colleagues worked so hard on.
“I am thrilled to learn that the government has issued the long-awaited White Paper on the report of the TRRC in which it accepted 99.2% of the findings and recommendations of the Commission. I am happy to have attained such a lofty achievement not just for myself, but for the Commissioners who made the final decisions and particularly my legal team members who made the sacrifice to go beyond the call of duty by spending sleepless nights with me at the TRRC as we wrote the reports and the recommendations. The support and encouragement they gave me throughout the process were extraordinary for which I thank them enormously.
I take this opportunity to commend the government for taking a correct and courageous decision to rise above politics and accept the recommendations and of the Commission. “
The millionaire politician went further to challenge the legality of the government’s decision to reject the recommended Amnesty for Sanna Sabally
“That said I congratulate the government for a very good decision. Their acceptance of the memorialisation recommendations in particular will permanently keep the never again agenda fresh in our public interactions. Unfortunately,on it cannot be sustained legally as it is anchored on a point that is not based on the TRRC Act.”
He congratulated the government for what he called “a very good decision “
“That said I congratulate the government for a very good decision. Their acceptance of the memorialisation recommendations in particular will permanently keep the never again agenda fresh in our public interactions.
We now wait anxiously to see the next steps the government will take to implement the recommendations. Addressing the impunity gap is key. As such, I eagerly look forward to the justice and accountability mechanisms the government will pursue the perpetrators.
Long live The Gambia and all its people. Long live justice.” The statement concluded.