I was just about pening piece of advice to Dr. Samara Mathew Wilson Kamara for him to seek a Court Injunction specifically against Police Inspector General Ambrose Michael Sovula for Politically Stalking him, when news of the Police Inspector General’s (IG) sacking hit the media. So you’re free to judge me as having perceived ideas against the former IG right from here.

In my personal estimation Police Inspector General (IG) Ambrose Michael Sovula was for the better part of his office tenure a huge embarrassment both to HE President Bio in particular at whose wish and pleasure he was appointed and to the Nation State of Sierra Leone in general.

How and why Sovula ever got catapulted to that sublime post is still baffling to many. And catapulted is the right word. because Police insider information has confirmed to me that he was on the verge of being grudgingly promoted from Superintendent to the substantive rank of a Chief Superintendent, when many of his superiors were suddenly sidestepped to make way for his ascendancy to the IV position. The inference there is that the eligibility criteria had to be significantly lowered to accommodate Sovula, hence the very unprofessional manner he conducted himself in the line of duty,.

Ambrose Michael struck me as an officer that was crude in appearance. unmannerly in culture, despotic and daft in demeanour with a consistent penchant to satisfy his handlers with the zeal of a zombie. If he wasn’t exhibiting highhandedness against mainly opposition politicians, he would be lying with unbridled arrogance to distort facts and evidence to ensure that his/their victims of police brutality become deeply incriminated. Some or all of those incidents of his notoriety became evident from the manner he explained away the Belgisim Traders riots and fire disaster, and other riots occasioning loss of valuable lives, properties and alleged disappearances of uncountable number of youths in Makeni, Pademba Road Prisons Lunsar Tombo, Mile-91, Thonko Limba Constituency No 56 riots and many other unreported instances of political upheavals to name just a few.

In the Belgium riot incidents in particular Sovula doctored material evidence by inserting pictures of stone-throwing rioting youths in Senegal into pictures of the rioting Belgium sellers to aggravate their culpability.

Though Sovula’s exit was as spectacular as his ascendency into the office of the police IG’ it wasn’t unexpected. In life there are times when our zeal to please our employers could either end up spitting ourselves, or as an embarrassment for them.

In Sovula’s case he would occasions stopped the integrity and dignity of the office of the police IG’ so low as low as either ostensibly acting as the Guide for the president ( even with the presence of hundreds of body guardse), or as he was seen squatting on a chair to supervise a simple police operation like the recent unstuffing of alleged frozen chicken and sausage s Reefee container at Kingdom. A whole police IG with command and control over in excess of fifteen thousand (15’000) was caught on camera as if in the front row in cinema hall supervising the unstuffing frozen chicken, but without a popcorn in hand