For Sonko’s supporters, Sidi Ahmet Mbaye, presented as the man who assisted Adji Sarr after the alleged rape, is theface of the politico-judicial plot. At the bar, he denied everything and believes he flew to the aid of a girl who « was being raped » by the leader of the Pastef party, according to him. “Several times, before December 2020, Adji Sarr explained to me that she was being raped by Ousmane Sonko, but I did not believe her because I did not think Sonko capable of performing such acts. It was at the third complaint that she told me that she was going to take her responsibilities. There, I told her that she could not file a complaint without evidence,” he said serenely at the bar of the Criminal Chamber, trial of the Sonko-Adji Sarr case. He advised the latter to bring evidence that would compromise Sonko.  

“Afterwards, she told me that she got them. I then called a lawyer friend, Gaby Sô, who put me in touch with Dr Gaye. With the gynaecologist, we went to look for Adji Sarr to bring her to Grand-Yoff hospital”, continued Mr. Mbaye. This was February 3, 2021. “It was after Ousmane Sonko left that she called me after sending me a message that I saw late. Adji told me that the guy came and hurt her again. She told me that Ousmane Sonko ejaculated on her,” he recalls. For him, there was never a plan. “I was never part of a plan to get this evidence. The results were given to the gendarmes the next day,” he added.

Sonko-Adji Sarr Trial: Torrid Revelations of Adji Sarr

Investigator in the case, ex-captain Seydina Oumar Touré, who was at the Colobane Research Section, returned to the investigation. He says first, “I looked at the room where the rape allegedly took place, but the cameras weren’t working. I was looking for an answer to understand how rape could be done in such a hermetic room. The decor was normal for performing a massage. I’m a law enforcement officer, but I can’t call that room a place of debauchery just because there was a red light. I closed places of debauchery, I arrested prostitutes, but when you listen to Ndèye Khady Ndiaye, you don’t think she can do that. Honestly, when you see and listen to the lady, you can’t think that Sweet Beauty is a place of prostitution or debauchery. » This did not allow him to certify that there was no rape. He admitted that throughout the investigation, she was never threatened.  “Nobody was forced since the lady Adji Sarr was assisted by her lawyer. I heard Aïssata Ba say that they have several categories of clients and that when Ousmane Sonko was left alone with Adji Sarr, the lady had to finish him off. I don’t know how the finish should be done. We can think of a sexual finish, but it is not logical from the moment that she said that she was raped”, dismantled the ex-investigator of the gendarmerie. What about investigation reports? “We must not change a comma in a report. There is a part in the statements of Ndèye Khady Ndiaye which is no longer in the document. Even the photos attached to the file were not there,” he says.

Gynecologist Alphousseyni Gaye on the Results of his Diagnosis: « Sperm Was Found in Adji Sarr’s Sex »

At the Bar, the former masseuse at Sweet Beauty, Aïssata Ba, admitted having massaged Sonko in the company of Adja Sarr. “The day Ousmane Sonko came, we were connecting. It was Adji who opened the door for him,” she says. According to her statements at the bar, the complainant asked her to act as if she did not know the leader of the Pastef party. They “massaged him together”. “She instructed me to act as if it was nothing. I brought back the towel and Adji had massage oil. Sonko let us know that he had severe back pain and asked for a good massage. Later Adji asked me out to leave him with her. He had just taken off his clothes and had his pants on before bending down to be massaged. Ousmane Sonko did not take a bath. The towel I gave him was for wiping his hands in the bathroom. The towel is an obligation for all customers. I never said that Sonko was lying down during the massage. Ousmane Sonko had not worn shorts, he had his pants on. The massage was limited to rubbing as we are do with ointments,” explained Ms. Ba.

Sonko-Adji Sarr: the Key Dates

Afterwards, Adji Sarr asked her to leave. She did, then picked up her phone to call. And, she remarked: “I told her that she was planning something. She said the client had ejaculated. She was the one with Sonko, I don’t know what she was doing. She called to ask for someone to pick her up. She had put her phone on hands-free. But, she assumed fetish practices thinking that she wanted to use Sonko’s sperm to marabout him. “Some girls do it,” she said at the bar, detailing the working conditions, salaries, types of massage practiced in the salon.

By Justin GOMIS / justin@lequotidien.sn

  • Translation by Ndey T. SOSSEH