By Karifa Kello Thoronka
Twenty-five years old Margret Mani a young Sierra Leonean has vowed never to return to Sierra Leone to avoid death from political intimidations, Margret revealed this during phone conversations with one of the family friend who informed her that police are searching for her.
However, according to a reliable source a group of police and military officers attacked Margret with her parents in June 2018, in order to forcefully kick them out of the house. They arrested four family members including Margret for putting up resistance and took them to the Lumley Police station for questioning, after spending fourteen (14) nights at the station they was released with the condition to report every morning at the station till further notice. Margret’s Uncle late Brig. Gabriel S.T Mani was implicated being a member of the opposition party APC until his death, During this period she travelled to Lungi thinking that she will be safe from further intimidations.
Whiles narrating the story to the press in tears, one Aminata Mani says that in the early hour of Friday 12 August 2022 full loaded truck of police appeared in Margret father’s house in Lungi harassing the family to produce their father (Kowah Albert Mani). Noting that he was part of the August 10 unrest in the Country as one of the sponsored.
In the last six years Government officers at both the national and local levels deployed an array of tactics to intimidate and obstruct the opposition political party members noting that they are undermining the good work of the running Government.
Some relatives of Margret think that the return of Margret Mani in Sierra Leone is a big risk, she might lost her life or she stays in prison forever.
