The Deputy Leader of the Alliance Democratic Party, Nfagie Kabba, in an interview with this medium, stated that the Master and Registrar is believed to be the one playing games regarding the bail condition of Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, Leader and Chairman of the (ADP) Party, who has been in detention at the Sierra Leone Correctional Center for over 14 months now.

Nfagie Kabba stated that Kamarainba was granted bail on the 7th September 2021 by the Honourable Judge, Justice Samuel Omodele Taylor, and has met the bail conditions, but the Master and Registrar is proving otherwise and imposing her won conditions, which now supersedes the Judge’s decision.

He stated that the bail condition given by the Judge clearly stated that Kamarainba should submit all his travelling documents and his international passport if any, this Nfagie Kabba said, Kamarainba has produced, and only the International Passport was left out, which got burnt during a fire incident that took place at Kamarainba’s resident in Makeni, and a report was made at the Makeni Police Station.

Nfagie Kabba stated that after producing all the documents asked for, the Master and Registrar that his house got burnt and the passport got burnt in that incident, but she insisted that she wants to see the Police report to ascertain that the fire incident really took place at Kamarainba’s house in Makeni.

He stated that Kamarainba’s legal team and family went to Makeni several times and engaged the police, just to access the report, but to no avail.

“The Legal team wrote to the different Heads of Departments, but have still faced stiff resistance. This prompt me to personally to go to the Inspector General of Police, Ambrose Michael Sovula, to discuss with him on the said issue, and he told me that this is the first time, in all decades of experience in the SLPP that a Master and Registrar is asking for a police report, so he told me if the Master and Registrar needs the police report on the said issue, she will write formally to the IGP. We have communicated that to her, but she still refuses to do the needful, the police have acted in a professional manner, so we consider the whole thing as ploy by the Master and Registrar to refuse our leader bail”, Kabba said.

Kabba said Kamarainba has been continuing to struggle with is health since he was detained at Pademba Road Prison, which he said has been considered as a Human and Constitutional Rights Violation of a citizen of Sierra Leone.

He furthered that the ADP Party will continue to engage all authorities in governance to secure the release of Kamarainba.

He stated that the Correctional Center should still know that Kamarainba is in their hands and his health condition is deteriorating by the day.

The issue of Kamarainba has generated serious concern from the public, to the extent that a date has been set by a coalition of Civil Society Organization (CSOs) and some members of the public for a peaceful protest in the country, according to The Times SL.

The Leader and Chairman of the Alliance Democratic Party was arrested in August 2020, for alleged sexual penetration, and since then he has been remanded at the Correctional Centre in Freetown.