Prior to participating in the National Assembly elections, Jammeh served as councillor for Bundung Six-Junction Ward from 2013 to 2018 and from 2018 to 2022, when he resigned to run for parliament.
Honourable Jammeh provided documentations of activities that he did as a councillor and the details of expenditures made. He provided all documents required of him.
He was questioned about the July 2018 market exercise. He responded that he knew that it was discussed at the level of the council, but he did not know how it ended.
He testified that he did usually go to the nearby market as part of his routine activity but he never participated in any market exercise as claimed by the KMC.
“In fact, this is not my signature,” he said.
The councilor-turned-NAM was the second person to claim that his signature was forged. The evidence before the Commission is that all the councillors signed in one day for the 25 days.
Each councillor was paid D400 per day amounting to D10,000 for the 25 days. A good number of the councillors have testified that they did not participate for the entire 25 days.
Strangely enough, minutes of a council meeting indicated that the payment was to support them for the Tobaski as a way to motivate them.
The Commission has heard varying, inconsistent and bizarre testimonies over the purported exercise, which has deepened doubts over the exercise, making it a controversial issue at the Commission's centre stage.
