April 23, 2021
By our Bo Correspondent
A judgment order dated 31 March 2021, by Magistrate Isata Susan Sellu- Tucker and delivered by Magistrate Santigie Bangura, at the Bo Magistrate Court No. 1, granted immediate vacant possession of the premises at 9&10 Kowama Road, Bo city to Ms. Bintu Soya-Bongay, the legally adjudged owner of the said premises. However, since the court judgement, the Bailiff of the court in Bo, Mr. Bangura has sought to employ delaying tactics calculated to illegally forestall the execution of the court-order for the immediate repossession of the property. The Court Order provided for the immediate eviction of Mr. Ali Aloysius Foh from the premises; and ordered payment of court fees by Mr. Foh to Ms. Bintu Soya-Bongay; for the illegal and fraudulent conversion of the said property and land situated at Kowama in the city of Bo.
Evidence adduced during this long drawn-out land and property trial, which this press has seen copies of, brought by Ms. Patience Bintu Soya-Bongay against him proved beyond any reasonable doubt that Mr. Foh had no legally credible attachment or ownership rights on both the land and the massive three-story building, exclusively built and legally adjudged to be the sole property of Ms. Soya-Bongay, a Registered Nurse in the United States. Mr. Foh on the other hand had engaged in an elaborate web of deceit, forgeries of official documents, land and property title documents all designed to perpetuate the fraudulent conversion of the land and property.
The genesis of this court case, according to documents produced in court and statements from friends and family members familiar with the relationship between Ms. Soya-Bongay and Ali Foh, started from a brief period of marriage between the two in 1994; which by 1997 had ended in a separation and a subsequent divorce judgement by the California Superior Court in 1999. The judgement of dissolution of marriage and the property settlement agreement dated April 2, 1999 clearly found that no community property and no unpaid community obligations existed between Ms. Soya-Bongay and Mr. Foh. Ms. Soya-Bongay proved that she started construction of her building in 2003, nearly 4 years following dissolution of their short-lived marriage. Reliable information produced in court and made available to this press also shows that Mr. Foh has had a propensity of engaging and prying on vulnerable professional Sierra Leone women during his 40 years stay in the United States. This is evidenced by the several Sierra Leone women with whom he has had children and sought abode from.
The court found out that Mr Foh’s claims of joint fee simple title ownership of my land is not only spurious but totally unfounded and criminal. Again, having divorced and recently being married in Bo, the court established that Mr. Foh’s claims of a continual marital relationship was not only false but a calumny contrived to deceive the judicial system. The land that the house was built on by Ms. Bintu Soya-Bongay was willed by her late father, Pa Soya-Bongay to his children. As a matter of fact, Ms. Bintu Soya-Bongay’s sister house stands next to hers. Mr. Foh’s name is not listed on any of the title deeds, court and chiefdom documents and property plans”. For having been adjudged to be in illegal possession of the house and land of Ms. It has been learnt that Mr. Foh’s tactics is to thwart the Eviction Order; to allow him to continue to stay illegally in the house, while filing for an appeal.