By Alpha Kamara
Aftermath of the 2018 election petition has forced one of the strong members of the opposition APC to run away to an unknown destination. Information reaching this medium have it that, one Abdulai Patty Kargbo, a strong supporter of former Honourable member of Parliament for Constituency 130 in the Western Area has been reportedly chased out by irate youth of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party.
According to eye witnesses accounts, before the election of the petitioned MP, Abdulai patty Kargbo has been an astute supporter of the former MP who won the 2012 parliamentary seat for that Constituency.
Unfortunately, during the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, the incumbent MP by then was not given the symbol to contest for that seat, it was later given to Osman Timbo who won with a landslide victory.
Hon. Timbo was petitioned by the ruling SLPP for allege election violence, unfortunately, Hon Osman Timbo lost his seat following a High Court decision on Friday 31st May, 2019 which disqualified 10 APC Members of Parliament; with 9 of these seats going directly to the SLPP, this decision created a kind of confusion between supporters of the two main political parties in the country.
Sources within the Constituency revealed that, after the court ruling, supporters of the candidate who won the petition went on the rampage chased supporters of the losing side.
According to our sources, Abdulai Patty Kargbo was one of the SLPP supporters’ main targets, but fortunately for Kargbo the day he was to be leached, one of his friends alerted him that the SLPP supporters were on their way to his house to ransack the house and eventually leach him.
Upon hearing the unpleasant news, Kargbo allegedly escaped and sought refuge to one of his relatives outside the capital of Sierra Leone.
According to our sources, Kargbo, the threats of killing him do not only stopped at the capital, the irate supporters were said to have tracing where he was hiding, an ugly development that made him to flee the country to neighboring Guinea.
After Kargbo had left the country, his family was put under serious harassment and intimidation and some of his younger brothers were even sent to jail for a spent a considerable number of months, and during that period one of his brothers met his demise during the attempt prison break saga occurred in the country.
Our investigation revealed that, Kargbo is said to have nurse plans to also stay in Guinea but that, some SLPP supporters residing in Guinea were said to have put him under serious pressure threatening to expose his whereabouts back home, this prompted him to quit the Guinean capital, Conakry and flee to an unknown destination.
As at time of us going to press last night, the whereabouts of Abdulai Patty Kargbo is still unknown and sketchy.
We are closely monitoring the situation.
