Human Right Commission of Sierra Leone today holds a meeting in Bumbuna with representatives of the Sierra Leone Police following their publication of a damning report against the police.
It is the first in a series of meetings on the implementation of the findings and recommendations of the report. The report spoke of gross human rights violations following in industrial strike by workers of African Minerals in April eventually leading to police shooting leaving one killed and many others wounded with hundreds displaced.
Speaking to Politico on phone from Bumbuna the Public Information Officer of Human Rights Commission, Henry Sheku, said the Commission would meet with some fifteen interested parties, among them the police and the AML mining company.
Mr Sheku said that the concerns raised by the Police that Commission’s findings were “biased and unfair” against them would be looked into.
Some of the recommendations made to the police were to apologise to the people of Bumbuna especially the women, establish a fund that would be used to compensate police officers injured or the families of officers killed in the course of duty.
But police spokesperson, Assistant Superintendent Ibrahim Samura, said that police would honour the invitation of the Commission but he would not comment further.
