Musa is caught in wedge
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Musa Tarawally (in photo) recently distributed audio of information he hacked from telephone conversations with different persons. Plenty justifications came handy to explain Musa’s criminal abilities and tendencies in the way he familiarised himself with the act. He exhibits an insider mentality similar to how a gang mobster would get primed in missions and come home sharing tales of their prowess with opponents.
For example he had a telephone conversation with somebody alleged to be JJ Saffa who he accused of plotting his execution at Jendema.
Voice in the audio: “JJ, bo na u go send u bobor dem for kill me na Jendema?” –interprets: “JJ, why it has to be you who should send boys to behead me at Jendema?”
This one point is a stop point to pick some bones. We have conflict and contrast in Musa’s testimonies on his presence at Jendema. In the first place he denied earlier that he didn’t go to Jendema. Why must he be targeted there in the first place?
This was time when there was an upsurge in the country’s southern border gate to neighbouring Liberia where opposition members claimed to have been facing persecution and forced into cell by the police Musa Tarawally is heading as Internal Affairs Minister. Later we are made to understand that he went to organize an anti-violence movement campaign with chaos as the outcome. It did not only end in ostracizing the opposition, we end up hearing that an influx of Liberians stormed the southern towns of Jendema, Pujehun and Sulima to register as ordinarily residents. Musa did not only stop there, he lifted scores of persons to the southern headquarters of Bo to register in the midst of protest of such actions.
On the other hand Musa implicated President Koroma when he said his number one is aware of his mission in Jendema which speaks volume of violence at a time when Koroma has just implored the International Criminal Court (ICC) to focus its radar on Sierra Leone to handpick perpetrators of violence in the event marking the November polls.
Musa seems to be in natural conflict with President Koroma and he is trying to implicate him in a multitude of ways. (1) He sees President Koroma as a spent force, so he is calculating plans to lure SLPP loyalists to the core into declaring their membership into the APC and make rejoice out of their defections. And these are members who would never quit the SLPP into any other political party. But the deal is Musa will be making money out of such purporting defections. (2) President Koroma fails to understand that Musa has always been a key strategist. By that he is plotting spies around President Koroma and he is here rejoicing that he has garnered a wholesome membership from the opposition. One instance is made clear on the hacked audio, when he was conversing with an anonymous caller who told him he is a feared man in Sierra Leone, he said:
“Den nor fraid President Koroma, na mi den dae fraid?” meaning the people should be more afraid of President Koroma who sees a good minister in him upon knowing the fact that he is a deadly strategist.
Only President Koroma would be the one who will appoint a minister of illusionary ideas with a dastard image. Musa was in the SLPP and all he could be compromised with was a youth coordinator post and he machinated lots of happenings whose ghosts are now hunting him.
He went and stage-managed a press conference of a spoon fed confession to exonerate his records as if he is the trouble-shutter who is refining these boys.
Let me say one thing right, the press conference was organised to give a blind spot to the public that he (Musa) is not prone to violent and differs from the Shears Moses report which ascribed his personality to that. So even when the report recommended that he should be relieved of his responsibilities as minister and ban him together with others, established of the same crime from holding public offices for the next five years, President Koroma has done nothing to effect such recommendations.
At this junction, readers will be entreated in this series with details of Musa’s antagonism.
Watch out for Part 2
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