Banjul (Gambia) (AFP) – A Gambian army officer accused ex-President Yahya Jammeh of ordering the 2004 murder of an AFP correspondent Deyda Hydara and said he was one of three involved in the killing, according to his testimony to a truth commission on Monday.
“We opened fire, myself, Alieu Jen and Sana Manjang,” Lieutenant Malick Jatta said at the public hearing, naming two other military officers in the killing of Hydara, who was editor of the local daily The Point Newspaper and a correspondent for AFP.
Jatta told the commission his commanding officer later gave him an envelope containing dollars, which he said was a “sign of appreciation from the big man”, a reference to Jammeh.
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