July 19, 2021
Albert Baron Ansu
It is a plus to the Sierra Leone Police detailed at Jendema to have intercepted the trafficking of five Sierra Leone youths that were bound to be trafficked into Liberia for apparent mining purpose.
The act was masterminded by one Sierra Leonean youth who works for a Liberian in the Gold Mines of King George in Cape Mount County of Liberia.
The five youths had no documentation to clear them of the human trafficking suspicion.
During the interrogation by Inspector Turay, Crime Officer at the Jendema Police station, it emerged that there was fellow from faking as a Police Officer, who had purposively crossed the border to Sierra Leone to plead with the Sierra Leone Police to allow the five youths to cross and work in the Liberian Goldmines.
Police Boss at Bo Waterside in Cape Mount County from across the Mano River Bridge, was contacted and he denied knowing the fellow who gave his name as Marvelous as being a Liberian Police.
“I only knew him as a Police Informer sometime back, but he is not a Police Officer,” Cape Mount Police Boss Ansu Koroma told A-Z Newspaper.
Sierra Leone Police had in the circumstance insisted on charging the Liberian for impersonation.
The five youth who were to be trafficked were reportedly transferred to Bo to be screened in terms of authentic Ministry of Labor requirement.
A-Z gathered that many Sierra Leoneans have been trafficked into the Goldmines of Liberia from time to time, a practice that has been ongoing for a long period of time.