Three to Face High Court Trial Over Murder and Housebreaking in Kenema

Magistrate Hadiru Daboh of the Kenema Magistrate Court No. 1 has, on January 21, 2026, committed three defendants to the High Court of Sierra Leone to stand trial on separate criminal allegations ranging from murder to housebreaking and malicious damage.

The defendants are Ansu Goba, alias “Gaza,” an 18-year-old pupil residing at Talia Torgboma Village in the Kenema Judicial District; Moseray Kamara, a 20-year-old unemployed resident of Kingsway Street, Kenema; and Samai Blango, a 20-year-old miner from Largo Town, Nongowa Chiefdom, in the Kenema Judicial District.

Ansu Goba was arraigned on one count of murder. The prosecution, led by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sulaiman Kamara, Esq., alleged that on October 27, 2025, at Mano-Kortuma Village, Nongowa Chiefdom, within the Kenema Judicial District in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province, the accused murdered Kemoh Sesay Mannah.

The accused entered no plea during the committal proceedings, and the court noted that he was not legally represented at the time. Magistrate Daboh ordered that Goba be remanded at the Sierra Leone Correctional Centre (SLCC) in Kenema pending trial, while the matter was formally committed to the High Court.

In a separate case, Moseray Kamara, also known as “Ice Boy,” was accused of breaking and entering the dwelling house of Samuel Lavallie and stealing the sum of Sixty-Eight Thousand New Leones (NLe 68,000). The alleged offence reportedly occurred on December 19, 2024, at Benduma-Meima Village, Malegohun Chiefdom, in the Kenema Judicial District.

Meanwhile, Samai Blango was arraigned on two counts: housebreaking, contrary to Section 27(2) of the Larceny Act of 1916, and malicious damage, contrary to Section 51 of the Malicious Damage Act of 1861.

According to the prosecution, led by Inspector Alphan Samuel Musa, in proceedings associated with Defence Counsel Banie E. Sesay, Esq., the accused on December 12, 2025, at Largo Town in Kenema District, allegedly broke and entered the dwelling house of Fatmata Kabba with intent to commit a felony.

The prosecution further alleged that on the same date and at the same location, Blango maliciously damaged a steel window valued at Three Thousand Five Hundred New Leones (NLe 3,500), property belonging to the said Fatmata Kabba.