A Case of an Injustice: Radio Talk Show Female Journalist terrorized
Mrs. Manjia Belama-Samba, radio talk show female journalist was judicially terrorized by a pitiless anti-APC government resident magistrate, Mr. Komba Kamanda of the Kenema District Court. (Photo: Eddie Stanley)
There has been a very long silence since Mrs. Belama-Samba complained against the unethical behavior of a sitting district resident magistrate, Komba Kamanda, which resembles as if there is no sound coming back to sympathize with the victim. It appears as if no reverberation has been made to stop such immoral quandary by Magistrate Komba Kamanda in Sierra Leone’s criminal justice system. However, many of us believe that many voices are crying in sympathy of the victim as the result of the judicial terrorism inflicted on a female journalist by a proudly obsessive oppositional magistrate Komba Kamanda of the Kenema district.
The APC government ought to investigate this uncouth and excruciatingly confrontational miscarriage of justice by a court magistrate who took oath to be behaving professionally, while adjudicating cases. It seems as if Magistrate Komba Kamanda is every now and then miserably repudiating to honor his oath of office. By nature of his functions as a responsible court magistrate he is bound to be constitutionally observing the laws of our nation that he is now meddling with as the result of his desire to defame the APC government of H.E. Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma.
Magistrate Komba Kamanda has made the criminal justice system in Kenema look like a nightmare of public safety for the vulnerable population. Therefore, APC leaders are to act now to redirect this snooty Magistrate from misusing his borrowed government authority to demonstrating legally responsible behavior. Mrs. Balema-Samba’s letter requesting for justice was initially published by the most articulate female journalist in Sierra Leone who happens to be the Editor-in-Chief of the Awareness times, Dr. Sylvia Blyden. For ease of communication, details of such publication could be read from the Awareness Times’ February 02, 2010 edition.
Sierra Leone’s Bar Association, the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, SLAJ, the Director of Public Prosecution, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice all have very important roles in redesigning Sierra Leone’s Criminal justice System. Therefore, they should be empowered by State House to team up with the ministries of the Interior, Justice, Defense and the office of the Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone in an effort to restructure the nation’s CJS. If concerted efforts are not met to address the shamelessness and lawlessness of Magistrate Komba Kamanda, there is nothing to prevent the vulnerable citizens of Kenema district from suffering injustice, intimidation and judicial terrorism in the hands of Magistrate Kamanda like what he has done and continues to do to Mrs. Manjia Balema-Samba.
This undomesticated Kenema district’s Resident Magistrate Komba Kamanda must be disciplined for his lawlessness and obliteration of the good image of Sierra Leone’s Criminal Justice System based on his tyranny and unlawful detention of Mrs. Belama-Samba. Besides, the ministries of Justice and the Interior should make sure that justice must prevail for Mrs. Belama-Samba who suffered from the actions of an anarchistic and callous bureaucrat such as the Kenema District Resident Magistrate, Mr. Komba Kamanda. Magistrate Komba Kamanda’s superciliousness and rebellious manners in one of the nation’s constitutional legal courts unlawfully dragged Mrs. Balema-Samba to spend time in jail for no reason, which should be a cause for Magistrate Kamanda to be put on an administrative leave until his actions including his forcibly taking over Mrs. Belama-Samba’s case from the Local Court as mentioned by the victim.
His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and his APC Administration have done well in redesigning Sierra Leone’s Criminal Justice System but the APC government has got more to do to eradicate lawlessness and ruthless conduct from those who are supposed to be interpreting and or enforcing the laws of our country such as the open challenge that Magistrate Komba Kamada has thrown to our nation’s judicial system. His futile actions demonstrate no respect for His Excellency President Koroma, the Attorney General, the Minister of Justice even his boss the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone who also happens to be a woman. If it is true that Magistrate Komba Kamanda has no respect for the APC government and intends to be decrying the APC administration through illegal court performances, then why shouldn’t he be chastised, reassigned to the city of Freetown as an office registrar so that he will stay away from intimidating the public or fire him after he is found culpable? There is no reason for the APC government to continue working with undesirable characters like Magistrate Komba Kamanda who is masterminding the down fall of the APC government.
We have to thank the President for his speedy action in the direction of bringing justice for the victimized journalist, Mrs. Manjia Balema-Samba by instructing the Minister of Information, Hon. Ben Kargbo to make sure that there was fair trial for the Radio Talk Show female Journalist, Mrs. Manjia Balema-Samba. Actually, the Minister of Information took the matter very serious after President Koroma told him to intervene immediately, according to sources close to State House. Regardless of the Minister of Information’s meeting with the arrogant and disparaging judicial menace, the Kenema district resident Magistrate, Komba Kamanda, reliable sources said that Magistrate Kamada has been arrogantly defiant from adhering to an admonishment by the minister of information. Although Hon. I.B. Kargbo was said to have delivered a strong message from the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the nuisance magistrate Komba Kamanda, yet he categorically demonstrated no respect for His Excellency’s message. It is a disgrace to the APC administration, especially the ministry of the interior that supervises the judiciary if this lawless magistrate of Kenema district Komba Kamanda is allowed to be bullying his community residents. More stories will follow this one until justice prevails for one of Sierra Leone’s most famous and popular Radio Talk Show female Journalist, Mrs. Manjia Belama-Samba. Magistrate Komba Kamanda should be investigated for misusing his official authority, being nasty in court, intimidation and unlawful imprisonment of Mrs. Manjia Belama-Samba.Â
You don’t need to know this victim to stand up for her right because she has a very credible and sorrowful story. And her letter requesting for justice is enough for any related government institution or authority to intervene into this prejudicial delinquency of magistrate Komba Kamanda who rebuffs to acknowledge that he is paid out of public funds obtained from tax payers’ money. In recuperating a war ravaged community such as Sierra Leone, justice for all must be a practical slogan of rehabilitation, healing of victims and therapy for offenders, which will restore community trust in the criminal justice system of a nation in need.
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