BBC Sierra Leone correspondence, Umaru Fofana has today reacted to the vicious audio on allegations of the reporter in a land cruiser during protest day with armed police officers in Waterloo.
The work of a journalist is among the most dangerous career paths to take. Reasons to this is because, journalist, despite at the ring of war he is always ready to risk his life to inform citizens and the outside world on the happenings of the situation.
Among those that have taken this risk is Umaru Fofana. Umaru Fofana has over the years reported the happenings of Sierra Leone to the world through BBC. Following to this unfortunate protest, which was initially planned as a peaceful protest but later orchestrated to a bloodshed. BBC reporter Umaru Fofana was astonished to the allegations levied on him as a result of the August 10th protest.
According to the allegations, Umaru Fofana was in a Land cruiser on the said protest day with armed police officers and brutalized protesters in Waterloo. The allegations continued that, Umaru Fofana even asked that some women who had been arrested be shot by the police but the police refused to do such.
The BBC reporter seeing this news circling the social media expressed his dismay and astonishment to the said allegations. In a demented state in mind and thoughts, Umaru Fofana said nothing to either approved or disapprove the allegations but instead left everything for God’s will to be done.
“A lef me case to God” Umaru Fofana mentioned.
With disappointment and bewildered in thoughts, Umaru Fofana took to his official page and wrote:
“When someone hates you, anything good about you is unbelievable and anything negative about you is believable. Otherwise why would anyone believe let alone share a vicious audio of a mentally deranged-sounding man, pretending to be interviewing some women who lied that I went to Waterloo in a LandCruiser on protest day with armed police and brutalized protesters. And that I even asked that some women who’d been arrested be shot, the police refused and one of the women slapped me. A lef me case to God.“