Senegalese president Macky Sall
(L) welcomes his Gambian counterpart Adama Barrow upon his arrival at Dakar
airport for a three-day official visit to Senegal, on March 2, 2017.<br
/>SEYLLOU / AFP
Gambian President Adama Barrow
has allowed six soldiers convicted of plotting a coup against former leader
Yahya Jammeh back into the armed forces, a military source told AFP Saturday.
Jammeh survived several coup
attempts in his 22-year rule, with one of the most serious arising in 2014 when
mutinous soldiers attempted to take control of the presidential palace while he
was out of the country.
“The military high command has in
consultation with President Adama Barrow reinstated Lt Buba Sanneh, Private
Modou Njie, Lt Sarjo Jarju, Captain Abdoulie Jobe, Lt Amadou Sowe and Buba
Bojang in the army,” the high-level source who requested anonymity told AFP.
All six men were convicted
and sentenced by a military court in April 2015, with three given death
sentences. Their appeals were still pending with the country’s Supreme Court
when Barrow granted them amnesty last month.
The six men have already begun work, the source added.
The December 30, 2014 coup attempt saw a group of heavily armed
men storm the presidential palace in Banjul before being repelled by forces
loyal to Jammeh.
Jammeh is now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea after losing a
December election to Barrow.
He refused to recognise the result of the historic polls until the
threat of west African military intervention to remove him forced the mercurial
leader from power.
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