The witness said when former CEO Sainabou Martin-Sonko played the audio to Mayor Bensouda about the deputy mayor requesting bribes, Bensouda told her to “keep it under the carpet”.
The witness said the issue of the D12,000,000 loan they took from AGIB Bank was ignited by the issue of Deputy Mayor Musa Bah.
“They accused the CEO [Sainabou Martin-Sonko] of leaking the audio [about the deputy mayor allegedly soliciting bribes] in the social media,” Sayang said.
“Sainabou Martin told me that the mayor told her to keep the audio ‘under the carpet’ because if it goes out, it will be detrimental to their political career,” he said.
He added: “They were definitely angry with Sainabou because they think she leaked the audio. The issue is that they were not happy with Sainabou. This is why when the issue of the D12,000,000 came up, they decided to ‘hook her’.”
The witness also claimed: “The audio was all over the social media but nothing was done about it.”
He alleged that when the issue of the D12,000,000 came, they decided to use it as a means of vengeance against CEO Sainabou Martin-Sonko because they were angry with her.
He added that the deputy mayor resigned from his position and nothing more was done about it.
Sayang also stated that when the issue of D12,000,000 came up, some disgruntled members of the association used the office of the mayor to intimidate the CEO and some executive members of the association, trying to find their way to lead the association. He added that Modou A. Njie used that route to get the leadership role he is currently holding.
Sayang also asserted that the councillors were paid advanced salaries up to D80,000, adding that former CEO Sainabou Martin-Sonko wanted to stop that, which irritated some of the councilors. He was asked to provide evidence of the salary advances.
