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He said he spoke to Paul a day before the fatal journey, where he gave him a number to call if he wasn't accessible.
A Nigerian man identified as Kehinde Enagameh, whose brother, Paul Enagameh, was among 59 West African migrants killed in the Gambia in 2005 by a paramilitary unit controlled by then-President Yahya Jammeh, has demanded that those responsible be brought to justice.
Speaking to SaharaReporters on Saturday, Kehinde said his brother got missing in 2005 while seeking to migrate to Europe.
He said he spoke to Paul a day before the fatal journey, where he gave him a number to call if he wasn't accessible.
Kehinde brought that he discovered from a chum that Gambian government had arrested and killed his brother.
"Yes, I spoke to him an afternoon earlier than the fatal journey. He gave me a variety of to name if I couldn't get via to him at the phone in Senegal.
"It hurts to know the manner he became killed. I pass over him every day of my lifestyles. I can not say exactly what I omit most approximately him. I closing noticed him in 2003, however we had been in contact via emails, yahoo messenger and contact calls up to July 2005 once they were killed.
"From what we learnt from recent revelations within the Gambia and the sole survivor of the bloodbath, they have been on their way through boat from Senegal to attach a vessel inside the Gambia however were arrested by Gambian security personnel before they might reach the deliver, and that they were brutally murdered on the order of former Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh."
SaharaReporters amassed that Jammeh's paramilitary unit had in July 2005 performed approximately fifty nine West African migrants, such as Paul.
It became learnt that the migrants, who have been bound for Europe but had been suspected of being mercenaries motive on overthrowing the former Gambia dictator, have been murdered after been detained by Jammeh's closest deputies within the army, military, and police forces.
They had been at a seaside where they'd landed, then transferred to the Gambian Naval Headquarters in Banjul.
They had been detained there in the presence of the inspector popular of police, the director-fashionable of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the chief of the defence group of workers, and the National Guards commander.
At least of them contacted Jammeh through phone all through the operation. The head and several contributors of the paramilitary junglers have been also there.
Witnesses recognized the "Junglers," a infamous unit that took its orders immediately from the ex-President, as folks that executed the killings.
Jammeh's 22-year rule changed into marked by using full-size abuses, consisting of pressured disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and arbitrary detention.
He sought exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after losing the December 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow.
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