The
legal adviser of the National Intelligence Agency, now renamed State
Intelligence Services, Boubacarr Badjie, is still reporting on bail at Kairaba
Police Station although he is yet to be charged with any crime.
At
the presidential spokesperson’s maiden press conference last week, a question
regarding allegations contained in the petition against the director general of
the SIS by Mr Badjie was quizzed but Mrs Amie Bojang-Sisoho did not give much
information regarding the case.
“All
matters of reforms are being reviewed; including staff audits to ascertain who
is on the government pay roll are being determined. Once it is done, we will get
the public informed,” she said.
Badjie
was arrested by the police on the 9th June 2017 and detained at the Kairaba
Police Station for three days; he was released on 12 June at around 4:30pm.
He
was served with an interdiction notice from the Personnel Management Office
(PMO) on the allegations of leaking official secrets to the public and
violating work ethics of the intelligence agency.
However,
Badjie maintained his innocence and claimed that the new DG was reluctant to
implement reforms as demanded by the new government.
He
also alleged that DG Sowe was tampering with evidence of torture that took
place at the agency, and also reluctant to handover suspects in the killing of
Solo Sandeng for prosecution.
He
was granted police bail of D50,000 with two male sureties. He reports on bail twice a week since then.
