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At a ruling on the August 10 protest in Freetown made by Magistrate Hadiru Danoh of Ross Road Court No. 3, 14 defendants, including Hassan Kamara, Mohamed Sillah, Sallieu Kamara, Alimamy Thoronka, Lansana Kargbo, and 9 others, were on trial for 17 counts of office breaking and malicious damage against Sierra Leonean law.
According to the charge sheet on counts 1 through 16, all accused individuals Hassan Kamara, Mohamed Sillah, Sallieu Kamara, Alimamy Thoronka, Lansana Bangura, Charles Sesay, Alhaji Sembu Kuyateh, Lamin Kargbo, Eric Jarette, Osman Kamara, Saidu Kanu, Abu bakarr Kamara, Abdul Kamara, and Bockarie Morlu participated in various dates between Wednesday, August 10, 2022 and on Thursday, August 25, 2022, a TVS motorbike with the registration number SLP 367 worth eleven million two hundred thousand Leones was stolen from the Approve School Police Post in Wellington, Freetown, along with other items belonging to various police officers, such as chairs, a plasma TV, phones, a police uniform, a rain coat, a windbreaker, a frizer, fiscal cash, a boot, and other items worth millions of Leones.
On count 17, the defendants are charged with willfully causing damage to the authorized school police post, which is police property in Sierra Leone. According to the evidence, the defense submitted a “no case” statement, and the prosecution called four police officers from the Kissy Police Division, the Approved School Police Post, and the PWD Police Post as witnesses.
Four accused people, including the second accused Mohamed Sillah, the seventh accused Alhaji Sembu Kuyateh, the eighth accused Lamin Kargbo, and the ninth accused Eric Jarette, were also discharged from the case because the evidence did not apply to them. The judge also found the 10th accused Osman Kamara, the 11th accused Saidu Kanu, the 12th accused Abu Bakarr Kamara, and others guilty; and he did not grant them bail, committing them to the High Court. The case was prosecuted by DSP Fatmata Kuyateh.
