Sergeant Omar Jallow, a former member of Jammeh’s death squad, the Jungulers, has revealed how Baba Jobe, a former enforcer of president Yahya Jammeh, was suffocated to death on his hospital bed.

Sergeant Jallow, who had confessed his role in several extra-judicial killings during the brutal Jammeh rule, was testifying before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission on Wednesday July 24.

He said one of his Junguler colleague, Nuha Badjie, tasked him with a fact finding visit to the Royal Victoria Hospital were Baba Jobe was hospitalised.

He said he went and returned to his unit with information about Baba Jobe and where his hospital room was located.

Sergeant Jallow disclosed that Nuha Badjie relayed the orders purportedly from the former president, Yahya Jammeh, that Baba Jobe should be killed.

“Yahya Jammeh, according to Nuha Badjie, said this night should not passed without Baba Jobe dying. Nuha told me that the boys will come to the barracks and I should show them were Baba Jobe was lying at the hospital.

“When the boys came, I took them to the hospital (RVTH) and met a prison officer who told us that Baba Jobe was sleeping. We used the bed sheet we found on him to suffocate him until he died,” Sergeant Jallow told the Commission.

He said the prison officers did not raise any alarm and he believed that they were informed of the plot to murder Baba Jobe.

“We left Baba Jobe lying dead on his hospital bed,” he said.

Baba Jobe was a former National Assembly majority leader of the then ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) from 2001 to 2003.

He was arrested on 10th October 2003, charged with economic crimes and jailed for nine years on 26th March 2004 by Justice MA Paul.