Dr Lamin Sise, chairman of Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, has revealed the commission has seven themes remaining to end its public hearings.

“As at this point, we wish to remind the public that the main themes remaining on the Commission’s work plan include the following: the former president’s HIV/AIDS and other diseases alternative treatment programme, enforced disappearances, the case of the 44 Ghanaians and other West African migrants who were killed in The Gambia in July 2005,”he said. 

“The April 2016 incidents involving the NIA and resulting in the death in custody of UDP member Solo Sandeng, institutional hearings on the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Judiciary, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), additional hearings on sexual and gender-based violence, and, The Junglers (part two).”

Dr Sise however called on “all victims and all witnesses with important information to please come forward and share their stories.”

He added: “While not all witnesses who give statements can testify, every statement collected will assist us in producing a true historical record of human rights violations that occurred in this country between July 1994 and January 2017.”

The TRRC sitting on Monday resumed public hearings on former president Yahya Jammeh’s motorcade and prisons violations.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba