According
to sources close to security services and at Yundum International Airport, as
many as fifty (50) people accompanied former president Yahya Jammeh into exile,
when he left The Gambia on Saturday evening for asylum in Equatorial Guinea.
Among
them was Jammeh’s spouse, the first lady Zineb Jammeh, and Jammeh’s mother Aja
Ashombi Bojang.
The
50 included seven (7) top security officers at State House in Banjul namely,
General Ansumana Tamba, Commander of the State Guard, General Sulayman Badjie,
General Ompa Mendy, Lt Colonel Wandifa Barrow, Colonel Amadou Joof, Captain
Ousman Jallow, and Sergeant Lamin Nyassi.
Diplomatic sources told Reuters that Yahya
Jammeh is going to Guinea Conakry for a short stay and then to exile in
Equatorial Guinea.