Khan, a resident of Hamdalai village in the North Bank Region, submitted a written witness statement dated February 11, 2025, which was admitted into evidence. She recounted joining the council in 2015 as a volunteer after completing secondary school in Kuntaur. In 2017, she was formally employed and issued a contract. However, she lost her appointment documents to a windstorm and was instructed by the commission to retrieve them from the Kerewan Area Council.
Her employment came to an end in 2020 when then-Chief Executive Officer Seedy K. Touray terminated her service, citing financial constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of government funding. “I accepted the decision,” Khan testified.
Despite her dismissal, she continued assisting her colleagues in revenue collection for several months without pay. “I have a passion for the job,” she said, though she eventually stopped working.
Even after leaving the council, former colleagues from the Lummo markets occasionally reached out, asking her to help with collections. “Sometimes I accepted, sometimes I refused,” she said, expressing that she felt her dismissal was unfair. She added that when she declined, Alagie Bayo, the Lummo supervisor would personally call and persuade her to reconsider.
During her tenure, Khan oversaw revenue collection at Kuntaya Market and the weekly Lummo markets in Ndungu Kebbeh and Jamagen. She further testified that when asked to assist with collections after her dismissal, she was sometimes compensated with 75 or 50 Dalasi instead of the usual 25 dalasi fare.
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