505 48 Tamba says PW1 is an avowed liar, PW2 a confirmed drug dealer

The former chief of defense, Lt. Gen Lang Tombong Tamba has called upon the Banjul High Court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Amadi to discountenance the testimony of the prosecution witnesses 1 and 2, Ebrima Marreh and Rui Jabbi Gassama respectively, noting that the two have criminal records. According to the former CDS, Ebrima Marreh had admitted before the court that he lied on many occasions while Rui Jabbi Gassama also told the court that he was a drug peddler. He said the testimonies of these two people could only amount to falsehood.

Tamba said this as he continued to be cross-examined by the director of Public Prosecution, Richard N. Chenge.
According to him, Ebrima Marreh never lived with him, though he was paying for his tuition fee at Quantum Associates as part of his humanitarian overtures to him. He said Marreh also stole a cheque that belonged to his (Tamba’s) wife and he had lied at many times. He noted that if a person could show traces of living by falsehood in these circumstances, the same person could lie about him for whatever reasons he has.
About Rui Jabbi Gassama, the former CDS said he had never met Rui Jabbi Gassama and he had never called him on his phone. He reminded the court that Rui Jabbi Gassama had told the court that he (PW2) was a business man and that he could do anything for money. He said as Rui Jabbi has admitted this, it means that he could likewise lie about the coup plot saga and implicate him if that would bring him money.
According to Tamba, he had at a time led a 15-man contigent to Guinea Bissau when The Gambia was invited to arrest Kukoi Samba Sanyang who was at that time in the custody of the Bissau authorities. He said Kukoi however refused to come down to them so that they could arrest him, and that the Bissau authorities declined to compel him to do so because they did not have extradition documents, so they could not reflect the arrest.
He also told the court that he at different times made phone calls to Guinea Bissau and these calls were to a Gambian diplomat at the embassy in Bissau, and to his relatives, and that it was evident from the call lists obtained from the service providers that he had not made a call to Rui Jabbi Gassama.
However, the DPP Richard Chenge objected to the claims by the ex-CDS, noting that he was actually conspiring with Kukoi Samba Sanyang and that he had made phone calls to Rui Jabbi Gassama through private lines.
In response, the ex-CDS said there was no way he could be conspiring with Kukoi Samba Sanyang in the presence of 14 other officers. He also told the court that Rui Jabbi Gassama does not know his house, and that the descriptions he had given were wrong and another falsity. The case continues.