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Sierra Leone: Police in Kono Intercept Minister's Wife Stolen Items
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Concord Times (Freetown)
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Fuad Kamara
Kono
Police of the Motema station Monday intercepted Idrissa Bangura and Bobson Njendeh in possession of a digital camera and a sonyericsson mobile phone believed to have been obtained from a hand bag snatched from the wife of the Minister of transport and aviation Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay.
The minister and wife were attending the thanksgiving ceremony of the Magburaka Boys Secondary School in which President Ernest Bai Koroma was in attendance as a member of the Magburaka Old Boys Association (MOBA).
According to Njendeh, he is a pupil of Magburaka secondary school and was in Magburaka during the ceremony. He said he saw a boy whose name he could not disclose snatched the bag from the minister's wife. He said he then chased the boy identifying himself as a police officer. "The boy became afraid and left the bag in my hands," he said.
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Njendeh explained that he removed the items from the bag and traveled with them to Kono.
PC 9020 Fornah F was said to have asked the suspects to report to the Motema Police station for further interview which made them furious and demanded that the items be returned to them.
After the officer refused to give back the items Njendeh grabbed him and slapped him in the face. The fight intensified and later led to Fornah sustaining some injuries. Other police officers intervened and arrested the suspects who were forcefully taken to the police station.
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