Speaking as the first female witness to the TRRC on Monday, Ms. Camara accused the late former Director of the then National Intelligence Agency, Daba Marena and former police chief, F.R.I Jammeh of those acts on her late husband.
“His legs, faces and all parts of his body were swollen. He was also unable to talk for a week due to pain. He started vomiting dark blood” Camara told the TRRC in its first hearing after it went into recess late last month.
During her testimony, she said Alhajie Mamadi told her that during his incarceration Marenah and Jammeh took an instrument to break her his testicles.
Sabally, according to her, recounted how he was tied with a rope from head to toe as his alleged torturers interrogated and beat him.
Alhajie Mamadi Sabally was arrested by the police shortly after the 1994 military coup which brought Yayha Jammeh to power.
Sabally’s in-law Saihou Sabally, who was the ice-president at the time of the coup had fled the country into exile.
Alhajie Mamadi was arrested in Farafeni and the message was transmitted to the family by his daughter, Joko Sabally.
“She brought his clothes home and told us that her father said he was arrested and that we should beg God if we want to see him again.”
Camara, TTRC’s first female witness said her husband was initially taken to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Banjul “and when he called from there, we all cried as we listened because he was crying.”
Kaddy Camara’s said her husband was later taken to Fajara Barracks before being transferred to Bambadinka, the most inhumane cell inside the NIA headquarters.
He was released after more than one year in detention and was in constant pain at home.
“He kept on saying that the pain he was going through would eventually kill him,” Camara told the TRRC.
He later died, his last words being ‘Allahu Akbar’ (Allah is Great).