Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dawda Jallow in a press conference during the release of the White Paper held at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara Conference Center stated that Jammeh will certainly face justice, adding a prosecution office will soon be set up to work on his journey to justice.
"The modalities of how we go about this are being worked out, and we are working on a prosecution strategy that will inform the processes about it, and in any event, Jammeh will face justice on the atrocities he had committed," Jallow added.
Jallow said out of 265 recommendations made by the TRRC, only two have been rejected. He added with the exception of the two rejected recommendations, where the Government does not necessarily agree with the proposed recommendation, it sets out an alternative model of implementation to meet the overall objective of the recommendation.
The two recommendations that were rejected include the labeling of foreign judges as mercenaries, and the granting of Amnesty to Sanna Bairo Sabally on the basis that he served time in prison for false crimes levied against him.
According to the white paper, for 22 years, Yahya Jammeh ruled The Gambia with an iron fist, adding during his regime, extrajudicial killings, rape, torture, enforced disappearances, and numerous grievous human rights violations became part and parcel of his military Junta.
“Aided by his enablers including the Junglers (his professional killers) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Yahya Jammeh used these instruments to entrench himself in power by instilling fear in the hearts of ordinary Gambian and/or anyone perceived to be in opposition to his regime," white paper revealed.
