By Adama Makasuba

Yaya Bojang, the second witness to testify at Tuesday’s TRRC hearing, told the Commission about his traumatic experience at the National Intelligent Agency while in detention at the notorious Bambadinka torture chamber. 

Bojang revealed that he was beaten by his jailers and tortured with electric shocks in his mouth and private parts.   

” I was beating mercilessly at the Bambadinka cell. I was given electric shocks in my mouth and thought my head would blow up. It was also applied on private part. My manhood even has a problem as I couldn’t fulfill my conjugal duties to my wife, ” Mr Bojang said in tears.

Bojang added that he fought with his torturers before they overpowered him, adding he was also struck with gun butt.

He described the food condition at the NIA as horrible, adding ” they used to give us stale bread.”

Bojang said he was treated in a degrading and inhumane way during his detention adding he that broke two of his toes. He said he couldn’t work and depended on people for support.

He said the schooling of his children couldn’t proceed after his arrest by the AFPRC regime, “because he was totally broke.”

The defunct National Intelligent Agency (NIA) – now renamed State Intelligent Services – was greatly feared by Gambians, as it was seen as a torture zone of the former Jammeh regime.