Mr. Abdoulie Cham, Director at the Geology Department on15thFebruary 2018, before the 'Janneh' Commission. Mr Cham disclosed that their Department knew that the excavation being carried out at the said site would stop, because the former president was not paying the workers.
Mr. Cham was summoned in connection with the mining site at Badari village in the Upper Ruver Region that was recently visited by the Commission. The site is part of the activities of the former president was involved in. Cham testified that the said mining site came about when certain people told them at his department that they came with some samples; that this was in 2012; that he told them they could not depend on information but would visit the site, further stating that they had an appointment but they failed. He adduced that the current Government wrote to them to provide them with samples.
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