By Chernor Aimamy Kamara
Police of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) have visited the apparent murder scene at Sumalia Town of 22-year-old Namisa Fatmata Kamara.
The university student was reported missing on 1 August 2022, and her slain body was found in a shallow grave on the 9 August at the compound of the Bobanie-Browns.
Led by the head of the CID, RPG Robert, Saturday’s visit by investigators was the first since August.
Two arrests were made for questioning of a man and a woman who live in the neighborhood.
The investigators posed several questions to Sonia Bobanie-Brown, who lived in the compound with her mother, Patricia Bobanie-Brown.
During questioning at the scene, new details emerged. The armed police guard, named only as Musa, who was deployed in the compound, was said to have requested for a shovel and a cutlass “to brush the compound” - days before the body was discovered in the shallow grave. A move that Sonia said was strange and surprising because he had never helped them with domestic chores.
Politico could not reach the armed officer for his reaction but police say they’ll call him in again.
An uncle of the late Namisa, Gerald Magba Kargbo had once told Politico that a shovel mark was seen around the area where the body of the deceased was found; which according to him the person might have used to bury the late woman.
The police also corroborated that they met freshly brushed grass in the area where the body was found when they collected it.
Sonia further alleged that at one night when they were still on the search for the deceased, her mother heard footsteps around the same area where Namisa’s body would later be found. She stated that when her mother questioned who was around, it was the OSD who answered, saying he was patrolling the compound.
The compound is a huge space with two big houses - one unfinished two-story building and another semi-completed one.
Sonia also said that on the day the deceased disappeared, they tried several times to reach the OSD officer on his phone to no avail. According to her, he later showed up for duty and gave “flimsy excuses” that since he knew he would be reporting for his night duty, he didn’t pick up the calls.
On the cyber front, one of the investigating officers, Tamba Kasigbama said that when they contacted the Cyber Unit of the CID, they revealed that the phone of the deceased put a call through via a number that was not hers, hours after she had disappeared on 1 August. The call was made from Sweizzy area of Freetown and out through to a Qcell number.
While Orange SL said that the SIM card was not registered and so the owner could not be traced, there was no word on who owned the Qcell number.
The matter is still under investigation and the police say they step up to be able to press charges once they were able to get enough evidence pointing to a particular person or persons.
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