Report reaching this medium last night indicates that the Youth Chairman of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party in Constituency 117 in the Western Area, Alfred Sulaiman Mansaray has been declared wanted by the police in connection with the Friday May 31st 2019, protest by party members at the APC party Headquarters, Old Railway Line, Brookfields, Freetown.
Mr. Mansaray who lives at 63G Jalloh Terrace in Freetown was among hundreds of party members who were protesting at their party against the outcome of the high court ruling against sixteen APC Parliamentarians that were petitioned by members of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP).
Mr. Mansaray who is an expert in Computer Software with Diploma in Computer Science was caught up in a clash between APC supporters and armed police officers who were deployed at the party headquarters that day.
Mansaray was seriously manhandled by the armed police officers, according to an eye witness Mrs. Fanta Lahai.
During the protest on Friday May 31st, twenty APC members including Alfred Sulaiman Mansaray were arrested and seriously tortured but Mansaray and Devaux escaped from the police officers few hours later. This is not the first time Mansaray has been arrested by police. Similar incident happened on Monday April 15th 2019 when he was coming outside the Court where he went yo listen to the petition case against the APC MPs. Immediately he went of the Court, the regional police commander Freetown East, AIG Musyapha M. Lahai ordered his arrest and taken to the Central Police Division where he was detained until the intervention of senior party officials before he was later released.
Mansaray has been described as a victim of political violence because of his association with the opposition party.
A neighbour, Mohamed Swaray told this medium that some members of the ruling SLPP besieged Mansaray’s residence in search of him. Swarray said Mansaray’s family including his father and sister were seriously manhandled and in the process carted away several properties including his electronics gadgets.
Swarray said when the police visited the house they took away Mansaray’s dad and younger sister because he (Mansaray) was nowhere to be found.
At a news conference held recently, the police declared both Mansaray and the National Publicity Secretary Cornelius Deveaux wanted after describing them as ring leaders of the protest. The law enforcement agency have put a price of five million leones (Le5M) each for Mansaray and Deveaux for anyone who will provide information that will lead to their arrest. Since the announcement, their whereabouts have remained unknown.