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Police To Interrogate First Lady

By Minkailu Turay

Lawyer Charles Francis Margai has informed journalists that the Police will soon interrogate the First Lady, Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma and three others for alleged trespass, malicious damage and robbery with aggravation.

Speaking at a jam-packed press conference held yesterday at his private chamber on Rawdon Street, Freetown, Lawyer Charles Margai alleged that on Monday 22nd April 2013 Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma instructed the APC Member of Parliament Hon. David Johnson representing Constituency 111 to demolish the wall fence and remove the makeshift shelter (Pan Body) on his land situated at the back of Bintumani Hotel. He also alleged that the First Lady gave the M.P the sum of Le20 million in order to hire APC thugs in the area to invade his property and razed everything to the ground at about 2 a.m.

Lawyer Margai said when he heard about the incident, he went to President Koroma at State House on 23rd April, 2013 and informed him about the conduct of his wife. He said in his presence the President tried to reach his wife on her cell phone but did not go through. The President, he said promised to get back to him. “But despite the urgency and seriousness of the matter the President failed to call me up until now” the outspoken politician said. He said he then reported the matter to I.G. Francis Munu but he too treated the matter with levity.

Mr. Margai said this notwithstanding on the 29th April, his driver, Emmanuel Lawundeh with his wife alongside one of his cooks, Joseph Anthony and his family were brutally assaulted, wounded and forced out from the same land where they had resided for long by the security  guards of Madam Sia Koroma. He named the two OSD personnel manhandled his staff as Marrah M. 12598 and Bangura James 1258 and stressed that his men would have been sent to jail had some people not intervened.

Mr. Margai said presently the matter of assault on his men is being investigated at the Congo Cross Police Station, whilst the alleged matter of land grabbing by the First Lady is being handled by the CID Headquarters, Pademba Road. “I am prepared to defend my property to the last. Sia Koroma is nothing” Lawyer Margai told journalists.

He explained that the First Lady earlier contacted him with the pretext to buy the piece of land. He noted that the said land was the property of Basma Family which was given to them by the erstwhile SLPP government in exchange for their house at Spur Loop which the Chinese Embassy now occupies. The Lawyer said a portion of that land was given to him by the Basma Family because of his several legal services to the family. “But because Sia could not afford to pay the US $150, 000 for the land, she decided to grab it together with mine,” he said adding that he will leave no stone unturned to pursue the First Lady and her band of rascals.