“Deputy Minister of Lands Abused Me” – Waterloo LUC

Local Unit Commander, Damon T. Conteh of the Water Division has told Sierra Express Media through this Reporter that he had an ugly experience with the Deputy Minister of Lands and Country Planning, Ahmed Kanu. He said the DM went to his office on the 26^th, of last month bluing at him following an aftermath of express demolition order to certain illegal structures in Waterloo two days earlier, February 23 that went with huge confrontations.

LUC Conteh said the DM accused him of being complacent by not providing support forces to provide maximum security while the demolition order was being executed. We’ve never met before that day, the LUC says, and had not prior information about the demolition order exercise in question, the LUC states.

The Deputy Minister, on the other hand claims he did not received a fair welcome in Waterloo and blamed it on the police for not making his visit known.

Earlier, on the 15th, of February the head of legal justice under-sheriffs of the Law Court of Sierra Leone wrote to request enough security personnel to enable the operations team carry out an execution order in the land lying situated at Borlima Lompa Waterloo, in the outskirts of Freetown.

The demolition exercise took place on Thursday February 23, following a High Court ruling earlier which ordered the plaintiffs: Pa Foday Kamara, Gibril Conteh, Rugiatu Kamara Alimamy Kamara and others to take possession of a said land of hundred and fifty acres. The under-sheriff wrote the Inspector General of Police, Francis Munu, and copied the AIG Western Area, the AIG Eastern Area and LUCs of other Division to backup a total of a 150 Operational Support Delta officers.

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