IG MOIGBEH IN THE PEOPLE’S COURT TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Clearly now Police boss Dr. Richard Moigbeh has very serious questions to answer because the people have completely lost patience with his approach to modern policing. Moigbeh is the most reclusive police boss since Keith Biddle. He doesn’t pick his calls even from journalists. He is obsessed with having a siren-blaring convoy of armed police driving him up and down this city.
In the last two months spectacular armed robberies have taken place in different parts of the country with amazing precision and speed. On behalf of the people of Sierra Leone we ask the following questions revolving around your ability to ensure the safety of life and security of property of all citizens in this country.
1. Do you really understand the duties assigned to the office you are occupying? The people don’t think so. The people will soon begin putting together neighborhood watch groups to protect their communities against the criminals who are roaming free on your watch.
2. Isn’t it the case that you have lost the loyalty of your Local Unit Commanders or even the ordinary police officers we meet on the streets daily?
3. Look at the recent brazen acts of criminality in the NASSIT Estate at Goderich where Justice Biobele Georgewill of the COI had his computer stolen and while the huge dust raised about that was about to settle, the same type of items were stole from another senior government official less than FIFTY YARDS from the residence of the Nigerian judge. Come on IG Moigbeh tell us something.
4. Is there any particular reason why you haven’t resigned over this incident just described? How about proceeding on leave for a few months at least so we give another police officer the chance to prove what good policing looks like?
5. Please provide us with the names of other incompetent police officers who are in your management committee so we can sack them. Look at your ridiculous ten million Leones bounty. Why did you in fact refer to the incident as “ALLEGED” in that your press release? Is there something we should know?
WE JOIN THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE BIOBELE GEORGEWILL’S LAPTOP COMPUTER
If IG Moigbeh is sacked within the next few days it is because his risk assessment skills for very important people like judges and high ranking government officials is very badly flawed. We reference the recent events at the NASSIT Estate at Goderich as clear outcomes of that flawed thinking process. We will not be surprised at all.
Anyway, we have decided to join the search for the computer not because we care so much about your disgracefully small bounty but we want to remove the stigma this has placed on Sierra Leone – perhaps the only West African country in which the American Ambassador’s phone was stolen inside a committee room of parliament. Anyway!
We have identified a few places, tactics and methods to recover this computer. We would have completed the search by the time you read this edition of Politico.
1. All the flats along the street where our friend the Nigerian judge resides, particularly the living quarters of the so-called armed guards who are all over the place but cannot stop thieves from distressing people there.
2. Those shacks in the neighborhood of the Estate. We will leave no stone unturned.
3. We may find the missing computer at a place called Belgium market in the center of Freetown or the surrounding areas.
4. Those study camps for school children up and down Freetown are also on our radar. There are many rogue teachers in those schools. What stops them from receiving the laptop in exchange for leaked WAEC questions?
5. We will visit the swimming pool area in that estate. This is a real free for all facility. We thought it was there for residents to use it but under the watch of NASSIT it is open to anybody who wants to swim. What nonsense is that?
SCHOOL BUSES PARKED AT YOUYI BUILDING AND PUPILS DRENCHED IN RAIN
Can somebody please tell us why the recently acquired school buses are still parked at Youyi building compound while those the vehicles were supposed to serve have to go to school in the rain? Whenever we see that spectacle our minds go back to those Ebola ambulances that were parked on the same spot while people died in far flung communities because they couldn’t be brought to treatment centers in good time.
Is Nfa Kabineh telling us he has to wait for Principal to return to Freetown before putting those vehicles on the road? Basic education exams are on right now and imagine how much it rained on Tuesday. Didn’t Nfa Kabineh complete planning during that controversial procurement process? Come on Nfa Kabineh.
1. Apart from not being used for unintended purposes we may soon have a situation where criminals will steal vital parts from those buses.
2. The whole euphoria and goodwill generated when those buses were paraded in Freetown is dying out as long as they remain parked.
3. Let’s not be surprised when some rogue official uses some of those buses for funeral runs around the country.
4. If you still have to wait for a month please move the vehicles to another spot. Don’t remind us of Ebola ambulances.
5. Don’t tell us you are recruiting drivers. You know the date on which these buses were due in Freetown. You should have hired all the drivers you need.
DANGER AT FBC CAR WASH CENTER EVEN BEFORE OPERATIONS BEGIN
Just when people want to start celebrating the initiative of Youth Minister Orman Bangura to construct decent car wash points for young people to make money came news that two young female students from FBC were attacked, robbed and injured by at least two of those boys who hang around that car wash center which is still under construction. Let’s be clear, the majority of the young people who operate in that place are normal boys and girls who work hard daily to feed their families far away from criminality. The danger is until they help the authorities take out the criminal elements from among them, they all risk being called and treated like criminals.
Here are our concerns about all these car wash points now under construction, particularly the one on the road to FBC.
1. The FBC one stands in an isolated and dangerous corner on a road that is normally deserted at different times in the day. Many students walk their way down from college and are vulnerable. What can Orman do about that?
2. The criminal elements among Keke and Okada riders are also people to watch. There are many cases of them turning on their passengers and attacking them.
3. We are still not clear about how those car wash centers, now being constructed with government resources, will be run. It’s one thing to build a place like that but a different matter to manage it. We deserve to know.
4. Just to warn Orman Bangura that the lawlessness at Model stretches right up to his car wash center and beyond. Was it a good idea building it there?
5. If the criminals who attacked those female students are not arrested and prosecuted people would be very scared to do business with those boys.
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