Police in Freetown have charged Tunde Williams, the man suspected to have killed journalist Ibrahim Foday in June last year. He is due to appear in court today, 8 November 2012, according to a press release signed by the Acting Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, Olabisi Garrick.
The release quotes the Director of the criminal investigations department, Alfred Karrow Kamara as saying that Tunde has been charged on one count of murder, saying there was “overwhelming evidence” he stabbed the journalist on 12 June 2011 and fled.
Tunde, who was a driver of the Kossoh Town Village headman, was arrested on Saturday 3 November 2012 in the northern town of Kamakwie.
“The arrest and subsequent indictment of Tunde Williams is a watershed moment in the strive for justice for our slain colleague”, says SLAJ President, Umaru Fofana, who called on the police “to critically, and without prejudice, examine allegations that Tunde was aided in his action by a serving police constable Musa Samura, alias Bartez, of the Operational Support Division (OSD)” and is believed to have held the journalist as he attempted to flee before he was fatally stabbed.
The 38-year-old was killed as he covered a land dispute between the Grafton and Kossoh Town communities outside Freetown.
(c) Politico 08/11/12
