By Alim Jalloh
It is believed that the right of association and to belong is fundamental things that affecting members who are associated with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex.
(LGBTI) in Sierra Leone, many young people both male and female has being discriminated, denied medical attention, rape, threatening and sometimes physically assaulted by family and community members, this has resulted to lost of their life’s in some cases.
A gay Activist Ibrahim Aziz Bangura is the latest victim who narrowly escaped an attacked from his community people and fear of been killed.
On the 15th November, 2016 report reached this media that a an in-debt investigation was conducted by this media to know the level of discrimination and violation inflicted on the victim. An activist Ibrahim Aziz Bangura volunteer staff of Dignity Association was attacked and threatened to be killed, because of his LGBTI identity.
On the 10th November, 2016 as part of his assigned job designated by the Dignity Association to organize a training for the LGBTI people at Allen Town Eastern part of Freetown. On that very morning of the preparation of the program information reached the Allen communities that one gay activist (Ibrahim Aziz Bangura) a well-known household person in that particular community was about to organized a workshop for LGBTI people on this community. As soon as they received the information set of homophobic youths galvanized themselves and went directly to the known location were the program supposed be held.
Fortunately, the victim got a called from an individual that a group of people are mobilizing to unleash an attack on you. Few minutes later he saw a group of people entering the compound and started throwing stones at the building and used hate speeches like evil doers, nasty men, batty boys coming out. We are going to kill you.
Immediately as he saw them he used the back exit point as an escaped root to save his life. The same day the victim reported the matter to the complaint desk officer after which the matter was also reported to the nearest Calaba Town police station, no action was taken. Report also reached us that if not for the intervention of some family members the victim house was nearly set ablaze by the youths.
Until this time his immediate family rejected him and the community people threatened to kill him if he ever surfaced.
