By Alhaji Turay.
The increasing reports of isolated attacks and killing on person’s found to be gay , lesbians, bisexual and transgender LGBT seem to have no end in sight as the recent case of Amzar Kamara depicted.
News intimated this press revealed that in Kola Tree Upper Allen Town East End of Freetown , Amzar Kamara a business Man and Chairman of the Sani Abacha street trading Chairman has come under serious intimadation and harassment from members of his family and the community after being caught practicing homosexuality with his male partner in his own matrimonial home. According to source from Amzar mother Mrs Zainab Sesay told this medium that since childhood Amzar started practicing gay on being knowing of his elder brother and family members. Amzar Kamara was caught by his wife practicing homosexuality with his male partner . Both family members stakeholders and the community youth have mounted a round the clock search for Amzar Kamara who is now declared wanted by the Sierra Leone Police.
Amzar Kamara who hails from a strong Islamic Muslim home and his father Pa Alhaji Abdulai Kamara was a Chief Imam at the Kola Tree Upper Allen Town Mosque. He was raised by a strong Muslim family was not expected to practice this act especially when his family was well known by members of the community as religious people and strict Muslim family.
Both national and religious laws in the country totally forbid individuals from practicing such acts. Family and community members were completely disappointed at Amzar Kamara action which noted goes contrary to their customs and traditions. Amzar had been very secretive about his sexual orientation before he was caught.
On the 9th August,2022 the wife of Amzar Kamara caught Amzar having sexual intercourse with his male counter part at there home which the wife called her brother and community members decided to take the laws into her hands together to physically and violently attacking Amzar Kamara and his partner at the place of seeing during the process Amzar and his partner were fortunate to escape for there lives.
After his successful escape he tried going home and he was approached by his friend who informed him about how members of the community including some of his family members are planning to eliminate him because he has not only embarrassed and disgraced them but has also flouted the customs and traditions of the land and going against what the family believes in and as such was described as the black sheep of the family. As he was declared wanted.
This medium also learnt that members of the community were against his lifestyle of which they were pointing fingers at him which nearly led him to commit suicide.
It was also understand that this irate community members stormed the residence of Amzar Kamara based on an intelligence they purportedly received that he has returned to his residence which in actual facts turned out to be false. Since then no one knows the whereabout of Amzar Kamara, but it is believed that both of the police and that of the community members are still angrily hunting him.
According to Sierra Leone law’s lesbian and gay acts are totally discouraged and disallowed the Sierra Leone constitution state that anyone caught in the practice must face a sentence of life imprisonment with hard labor.
