VICTOR FOH NAMED IN KAMARAIMBA's ARREST

Kamarainba Mansaray, Leader Alliance Democratic Party yesterday accused Vice President BockarieFoh as the mastermind to his arrest vis-à-vis alleged unlawful possession of firearm.

Kamarainba claimed his arrest came shortly after Vice President Foh summoned the AIG East, KarrowKamara, his Local Unit Commander Segbewma Police Station,  Supt. Joseph Kargbo to his Tower Hill office, blaming and mouth lashing them for failing to arrest the former when he was found in possession of a firearm.

That he (Kamarainba) came to know this when called upon by the police at their Freetown headquarters in relation to the alleged weapon/firearm found his possession while on a political campaign trip in Segbewma a week later.

“On my arrival at police headquarters, I first met LUC Joseph Kargbo who angrily told me he was summoned to the office of the Vice President, where incidentally he was badly treated and later ordered to unnecessarily caused my arrest and without delay prosecution too,” Kamarainba said.

He said after being charged to the court on three counts, he was on first appearance refused bail, kept behind bars at the Kenema correctional center for about a week before finally granted self bail on second appearance.

It is a fact ADP Kamarainba a week to his arrest and prosecution was reportedly intercepted by the police while in Segbewma town and found in possession of small arm/offensive weapon without lawful authority, charged and was refused bail, later kept behind bars for days.

His arrest came a week, days after the police allegedly caught him in possession of a firearm, which they say was a weapon utterly harmful and was unlawfully possessed.

However, and what baffled minds of the public is the fact that the police failed arresting Kamarainba just about the time he was found in possession of the alleged offensive weapon/firearm, rather had done so after about a week, of course, following demands from the political class.

Their assumptions are that the ADP politician should have been arrested at the scene of crime and at the Police headquarter, taking into cognizance section 13 (a) of criminal procedure act which gives right to the police to arrest any person who within the view of the police commits an offence.

Karrow Kamara, Assistant Inspector General Eastern Province recently had told Sierra Leoneans that Kamarainba’s arrest was effected at their Freetown Headquarter office, but did not state any reason for such an unprincipled action.

Recent revelation by Kamarainba that the police were ordered by the Vice President office, where regrettably they were humiliated for not arresting Kamarainba after  finding in his possession an offensive weapon, has raised the suspicion that the selected Vice President, Victor Bockarie Foh, may have masterminded police’s courted standpoint against the ADP politician.

Kamarainba, who last week, was granted self-bail after spending almost a week in cells of the Kenema Correctional Center, second appearance was represented by battery of lawyers from the opposition Sierra Leone People Party and from private legal practitioners nationwide.

The civil society and the media were also in court in follow up of the matter on Kamarainba’s second appearance.