On the way, political thugs of the ruling party led by the national chairman of the 22 July Movement, Baba Jobe, who is apparently the most powerful man in the country today, led a team of men with cables and wires. They met us at Denton Bridge in the presence of the security paramilitary police who arrested me. I was tortured and assaulted and sustained many injuries including a broken middle finger before I was put in confinement at the maximum security wing where the former vice chairman of the military junta, Sana Sabally and other security detainees were kept including the alleged attackers of the Farafenni and Kartong military barracks. As you know, earlier on I had taken the government to court for my several arbitrary arrests and detentions during the transition and that judgement was delivered against me on the basis that the Constitution indemnifies whatever actions the junta and its agents have done or omitted to do during the transition. But in relation to the torture and detention, they will not be able to hide under any constitutional indemnity because it has happened after the constitution came into force.
Legal action is to follow.
Q. Currently, there is a constitutional review exercise. In the first place, I think the way and manner in which they are talking about reviewing the Constitution is wrong. The matter should have been thrown to the public in the first place on the basis of which they would be able to know the feeling of the public about the current Constitution. Personally, I think any Constitution that indemnifies any person or group of people is a bad law and tries to protect some criminality somewhere. A government that came to power on the platform of accountability should be open enough and accountable to the people.