I recall that.

T-shirts that they sell usually.

They had T-shirts.

Yes. Few of them would have weapons. Some of them did not have weapons, but they would still be behind them.

What I have said is what I know. When they were walking, I was sitting there. At times when they would see a dignitary, they would walk behind that person. That's what I know.

When a big man usually walks around there would be - the adults and the children would be around. All of them would be behind that big man.

That one I don't know, because I just saw them walking behind them.

I just see them passing behind the people, behind those big men.

At that time I had not started making profits.

Yes.

In the market.

Many.

I have said here that some weeks I'll take 25 bags and some other weeks I'll go with 20 bags. That's what I said.

I wasn't there when they were eating, so I did not know how they proportioned it.

I did not know the number of people who were there.

I did not count them, so I don't know.

I was free.

I was still in detention until the Abidjan Peace Accord was signed. It was on that same day that I was released.

Explain a little.

Yes, they asked me.

Those ones, I did not keep their company. I kept company with those two women. Even though they called those towns, but I don't know those areas. They were talking about Panguma, Sieromco, Rutile. So they were saying it, but I did not have much with those people. There ...

The man and the woman, they said they were captured in Panguma. That's what they said.

Yes, one of them said it was Kabala but the others, when they spoke, I did not understand.

I don't understand it.

We removed the people, the white people first before I came to take Kono Manie and others.

Yes.

It was Dr Sebo whom I first went with.

No.

No.

No. I don't even know them.

No.

Never did that happen.

No.

No.

No, that is no assistance because it was not a gift. There was no way I could do, they had guns. If they ate and did not pay me, there was nothing I could do. But I did not give them as a gift, no.

No. I couldn't do anything to them.

Yes, I explained that area. I said some of them would just go, sit on the table and they ask for food. When you serve them, after eating, they just walk out. So we just left them. Few of them did that.

No.

Yes.

At that time we used to go and buy in Guinea and Ivory Coast. We used to go to those places.

No. I did not hear that and it did not happen in my presence and I did not pay such a money, no.

I never heard about that one and I did not see it happen, so no.

I want to use the ladies'.

I had no bodyguards.

No.

No.

I am treating them just like my own children. I feed them. When they get sick, I'll take them to the hospital and I'll take care of their wives. So it's difficult to see a boss like that in the mining areas, so that's why they ...

Yes, they are free to say it. But, you know, the way I'm treating them, they will not go.

No, even now they are still working for me.

You wouldn't pay them. You would feed them. So when they got diamonds, then they would tell you how much you should pay them for the diamond. So when you give them what they had asked for, then you in turn would go and sell it.