In the Aftermath Of August 10 Violent Protest…

Police Embarks On Man-Hunt For MosesM. Kamara Wanted

Reports from Hastings reveal that the Sierra

as there are many

Leone Police has mounted an intensive

reports of extra-

U search for one Moses M. Kamara, on

judicial killings by

allegation of being one of the key protesters in the

security forces of

violent protest of 10th August 2022, during which 6

known opposition

police officers were killed and some 25 civilians shot

party operatives, as

dead by security forces.

in the case of one

According to our source, Moses is believed to have

Evangelist Samson,

joined protesters in exercising his democratic right to

who was gunned

protest against the current economic situation in the

down by the military

country, and the said situation turned ugly when the

in Makeni (shot in

police surfaced and began firing tear gas canisters

the back), northern

and live bullets, killing some civilians. It was

Sierra Leone.

disclosed that the angry crowd then decided to take

According to close

the law into their hands and erected road blocks to

friends of Moses, who

prevent accessibility of the police, which then

wished to remain

resulted in serious fracas between civilians and the

anonymous for

security forces.

security reasons, Moses narrowly escaped direct

During the course of the day and the following days, firing from people believed to be top security officials several arrests were made and allegations of extra- in plain clothes, and in jeeps without registration judicial killings by members of the security forces of numbers. He is said to have then escaped into a known opposition operatives, an allegation that was nearby ally under hot pursuit by the police. They denied by the police. Police sources say that several recalled that that was the last time they set their eyes people have been arrested and they had issued on him, and do not know about his whereabouts, or pictures of some wanted people in respect of the said whether he is still alive. violent riot, but also that some others are at large,

As we go to press, family members of Moses Kamara

whose names they have declined to mention.

say that they have still not seen Moses, and do not

However, our investigation revealed that Moses know whether he is alive or not, and also that they Kamara was being sought after in respect of the said have been subjected to regular harassment and protest by the police, as family sources told this threats from the security forces, as well as by ruling medium that some armed police and military officers party youths in their area. In the spite of the protest, had raided their residence on several occasions in

Mosses had to lost his wife due to massive firing of

search of Moses. Family members said that since the live guns by the police and the military. As reports day of the riot, they have not been able to set eves of are reaching us, Mosses is nowhere to be seen and Moses Kamara, and are only hopeful that he is alive, found as search is in continuity.