It’s been more than a year now since the Lamah family was placed in a catch-22 situation for the disappearance of their only child, Mimi Dusuba Lamah; that is, if she’s even alive.
An investigation carried out by this medium reveals that Mimi Dusuba Lamah disappeared on the 15th July 2023 after being declared wanted by some elders of one of the most harmful traditional secret societies in Yengema Village, Koidu Town, Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.
Mimi Dusuba Lamah, born on the 10th of October, 2002 in Yengema Village, Koidu Town, Kono is currently on the run after being declared wanted for uttering words that elders of one of the leading secrets societies described as an unacceptable insult to a tradition that has been in existence for over one hundred years. The police have not been active with that investigation and have not followed any lines of enquiries.
It was further revealed that Mimi was one of the leading human rights activists and gay rights activists in Kono District whose advocacy focused mainly on the harmful traditional practices by projecting the heinous fight against the practice through effective educational tools.
The event that led to her forceful migration from Kono to an unknown place came at a time when she had open confrontation with secret society elders and openly told them that their society had no place in modern society, referring to their activities as evil.
The aforementioned statement did not go down well with the elders and she was declared wanted. After being declared wanted, members within the society started searching for her all over the place and she was advised by some human rights based groups and close friends to swiftly migrate from Kono for her safety.
She was known by many as one who was very vocal on rights issues and would never keep sealed lips whenever the rights of people, more especially the vulnerable are trampled upon or blatantly violated. Before the event that led to her forceful migration to an unknown place, she championed the fight of a group of people who belonged to the opposition All People’s Congress political party.
It was alleged that those people were restricted from some key basic rights especially the right to freedom of movement and expression just because they were criticising the principle of non-political tolerance and segregation which the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) was projecting during and after elections.
Supporters of the ruling party were not happy with what was described by many as affirmative utterances to stop political segregation. Hence, they were fears that she could face mob justice. It became very clear at that time that her life would have ended if she would have been caught.
An octogenarian man that spoke to this medium revealed that advocating for the rights of venerable people is something you can always be found in the traditions of the Lamah family in Kono. Her father was not educated but can always stand against the violations of rights of vulnerable people. “She has all the attributes of her late father,” the old woman revealed.
It is worth noting that Sierra Leone is a signatory to most of the international human rights treaties and conventions and a member state to most of the international organisations including the United Nations, Africa Union, Commonwealth, etc.
It is therefore bound on Sierra Leone to uphold these right based principles.