SELECTIVE JUSTICE AT KEBBIE TOWN POLICE CHECKPOINT IN BO
City Peep was taken aback when he learned about how corruption and selective justice are rife at the Kebbie Town Police checkpoint. Police officers at the checkpoint are not even concerned about checking and searching vehicles that enter the city of Bo. This should actually be their primary reason.
Instead, they are constantly engaged in extorting monies from drivers. What is very worrisome is that senior Police officers are now in the habit of giving lawless drivers complimentary cards to evade traffic offences. Most times, these drivers go scot-free upon presenting these cards. Those drivers and okadas without such complimentary cards are apprehended.
This happened in front of the City Peep team on the morning hours of Sunday the 5th August between 0700- 0800 hours. The license of a vehicle, AOA 488, was seized by a woman Police Constable and the other was left to go upon presenting a complimentary card of a senior police officer. Can we get Police Headquarters to put a stop to this selective justice by their men? Every driver should be equal before the law.
THAT CORRUPT TIMBER AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS CHECKPOINT
What is the essence of creating an additional checkpoint for Agricultural products along the highway to the Masiaka? Is it because these foresters no longer want to share the monies they extort with the Police and the Military at Mile 38 checkpoint? These foresters have long been part and parcel of the Mile 38 outfit, extorting monies from people who plunder our forests and transport huge quantities of fire coal, raw sticks and boards to Freetown. Is it a New Direction initiative to create an additional checkpoint just for Agricultural products? What impact will the separation of these guys from Mile 38 and the creation of an additional checkpoint for Timber products make? City Peep is left wondering. Can we have Ben Kaifala’s team at the ACC to conduct a sting operation at the area and check at the back of the small makeshift structure of the checkpoint where fabulous monies collected from people transporting these products are kept for onward sharing with the big guys in Freetown?
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THAT UNNECESSARY OSD PRESENCE AT MILE 38 CHECKPOINT
City Peep was amazed in seeing a battalion of OSD personnel at Mile 38 checkpoint last weekend. That was very unnecessary. While armed robbers continue to terrorize our people in different parts of the country, these OSD officers were busy searching and instructing passengers to come down under the rain and walk just as it had obtained in the war. Common! City Peep understands it was because former President Koroma was coming from Guinea through Kambia. Hmm, oh Salone Police, when will this Force do things through which they will really be commended for instead of reducing themselves to political puppets?