We all could recall after the news broke out that popular rapper, King Boss La has been arrested and his trademark dreadlocks has been cut off by the police personnel at Benghazi detention centre, the deputy head of the Sierra Leone Police Force Media Unit, Inspector Samuel Saio Conteh was interviewed by Samuel Wise Bangura on AYV television on the said issue.
When asked if it’s true that the police did shave the dreadlocks of King Boss La, Mr Samuel Saio Conteh clearly stated that “no police officer has the right to shave the hair of an alleged suspect”. Those were his words.
Well, today, in a press release written by the Sierra Leone PoliceForce, Mr Samuel Saio Conteh has been transferred to Rotifunk, Lungi, Kaffu Bullom Chiefdom for something that we think is related to the interview on AYV television. Yes, that may be the reason. Why the sudden transfer of Mr Samuel Saio Conteh from a higher rank to a lower rank if not for the truth he told to Samuel Wise Bangura during that interview?
After that interview, the Sierra Leone Police, after receiving public outcry about the well-being of King Boss La, turned around and said in a press release that yes they truly shaved off the hair of King Boss La and that was in accordance with their “Standard Operating Procedure”. That was said and dusted.
In another interview with the BBC, the IG himself went on to contradict the latter. The IG told Umaru Fofana that King Boss La’s dreadlocks were shaved because he had the intent of killing himself with the dreadlocks. How ridiculous this sound!
So, in just a week, the Sierra Leone Police has made three different statements in lieu of this matter. And all three of these statements are far from the truth Mr Samuel Saio Conteh said which says “no police officer has the right to shave off the hair of an alleged suspect and that they didn’t teach them that in the training school”.
The incompetence in the Sierra Leone Police Force is alarming and threatening to national peace and development. Such reckless statements from the IG of the Sierra Leone Police should be enough to tell us that he is not fit to head the institution and should be sacked to avoid international embarrassment.
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