I was beaten with baton and cutlass- alleged PIU shooter says

The accused, Ousainou Bojang, who appeared as a witness in the mini-trial of the Sukuta-Jabang Traffic Lights incident which led to the death of two PIU officers and one injured, explained that three men took him out of the cell late in the night and beat him up.

Ousainou Bojang told the court that the three men named S.I. Kebba Jobe, Musa Bah and the third one he said was a PIU officer and whose name he could not remember, took him inside the complex of the Anti-Crime camp and asked him to confess.

He added that S.I. Jobe told him to speak the truth, saying he was the one who killed the PIU officers and that he was having a gun.

The accused narrated that he told S.I. Jobe that he did not have a gun nor did he ever hold one. He also told the court that S.I. Jobe told him he would be suffocated to death if he did not speak the truth.

He further told the court that the other PIU officer, Musa Bah, told him if he had ever heard of the ‘junglers’, but he responded that he did not know any junglers and he had never heard of them. And the PIU officer Musa Bah, he narrated, told him that he was more aggressive than the junglers.

He added that S.I. Jobe told the officers to take off the handcuff and cuff his legs to force him to confess. But he said he told them he had nothing to confess.

He said he was beaten by S.I. Jobe on his back until he left a mark on him while Musa Bah was also using the side of the cutlass beating him on his buttocks. “The handcuff also left a mark on my hands,” he said.

After being beaten, Ousainou said, he was taken back to the cell, where he found some of his colleagues lying down and he fell on top of them.

He further explained that he was taken out of his cell late night by detective Ebou Sowe and one man and taken to an office. He said detective Sowe asked the other man to wait outside while Sowe asked him to sit on a long chair. There, he said, he was asked by Sowe if he would like to drink coffee.

He said he told Sowe he would take coffee if he had it, and Sowe brought him some coffee.

After drinking the coffee for a while, he said, he still could not regain stamina and later fell asleep. He also said he found himself in the cell in the morning and could not really recall what happened to him after drinking the coffee.

The case continues today.