Family members, relatives and friends are still worried about the whereabouts of their uncle, brother, son, husband and father Police Constable D/pc 14155 Bangura C.F, with Pin 225190.
14155 Bangura C.F was last seen in Makeni City Northern Sierra Leone where he was officially transferred to work since 2017, one day before riots broke out between the security forces and irate youths within the township and its immediate environs.
The riots were precipitated by the intended immediate removal and transfer of a Thermal Generator from Makeni City to Kaffu Bullom Chiefdom, which houses the Freetown International Airport.
The three-day riotous incidents which started on the 18th of June 2020, ended on the 20th with at least five (5) deaths.
According to Saidu Fofanah a civilian friend of 14155 Bangura CF and a resident of Makeni City, the police officer fled from his posting and residence during the peak of the riots when a gang of unknown youths, visited his house and threatened his Landlord Pa Kaprie that they would burn down the entire house if he fails to produce the police officer.
The youths according to Fofanah, were angry because they expect the police officer and his colleagues who are indigenes of Makeni Township, to stand with them during the riots and not allow other security personnel drawn from other regions as reinforcements to, as they put it, “massacre their relatives and loved ones in cold blood.”
Saidu Fofanah said further the landlord who was very much afraid of the threats made by the gang of unknown youths, called the fiancé of Bangura C.F Isha Charie and threatened that the police officer leaves his house immediately or face death.
He said Isha Charie later called Bangura C.F and explained to him what had transpired between her and their landlord, who was clearly in support of the gang of unknown youths for fear of his house being touched.
The police officer’s civilian friend revealed that he was the first to have hinted Bangura C.F about the pending actions of the irate youths against indigenous police officers, but that his officer friend down played the information thinking it was just fun.
14155 Bangura C.F was working with the Police Intelligence Unit which personnel don’t normally carry guns or other forms of weapon for self-protection.
It was for that main reason Saidu Fofanah believed the officer fled the township, especially following persistent rumors that a police officer was allegedly killed at Magburaka a neighboring town and his corpse thrown into the bushes; whilst the corpse of another police office allegedly killed with his own gun, was found in a nearby stream in another neighboring township.
With all these alleged killings of police officers following the three-day riots and even before that, authorities have done very little to bring the culprits to book.
For instance, D/Sgt. 7846 Nathaniel Lamin attached at the C.I.D Magburaka Police Station was reportedly ‘Missing In Action’ at Mamanoh Village along Magburaka/Mile 91 Highway in Mamunta/Mayossoh Chiefdom, on the 17th of March 2020 while executing a Warrant of Arrest for suspects alleged of Larceny Cattle.
Saidu Fofanah also disclosed he like other family members has no idea of the current whereabouts of both Bangura C.F and his fiancé Isha Charie since they fled from Makeni City.
“I don’t know the whereabouts of my friend and his fiancé since they left Makeni City following the Thermal Generator plant saga. I am finding it impossible to make any contacts since their disappearance from the township,” said Saidu Fofanah.
It is believed 14155 Bangura C.F was caught in a dilemma doing his job as a police officer and at the same time, protecting irate violent Makeni youths who had gone on the rampage to prevent the removal of their electricity generating plant from the township, to another community in the same Northern Province.
Saidu Fofanah strongly believes both his friend 14155 Bangura C.F and fiancé Isha Charie were apprehended, murdered and their dead bodies secretly disposed of by the gang of irate youths, who were so desperate to ‘teach’ their own brothers a bitter lesson.