Sierra Leonean Warned of Being Shot Dead

The Patriotic Vanguard Freetown Bureau chief, Alpha Rashid Jalloh who has just returned from Tanzania where he was invited by the African court on human and peoples rights on an international media conference that took place from November 21 to 22 this year, says security officials at the Kilimanjaro International Airport in Arusha, Tanzania warned him that he would be likely shot dead by President Yoweri Museveni's enemies because of the striking resemblance between them.

He says while going through security checks at the Kilimanjaro Airport, one security pulled him out and examined his passport. He then put him under intense interrogations asking him among other things if he had any connection with Uganda or with the president of Uganda. Jalloh says he replied in the negative. "The man looked at me intensely and said, 'Be careful, you could be shot dead by Museveni's enemies and by the time they know it is not him, you are buried'.

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