Sierra Leone Police brutalize protesting Njala University students

Protesting students of Njala University were brutally manhandled and beaten mercilessly  by riot squad of the Sierra Leone Police Force yesterday, raising the troubling spectre that  police highhandedness and brutality of the bad, old days  may be returning.

Since this new SLPP Government came to power last year, the Police has reverted to its old style of enforcement, using violence and brutality –A menace that Sierra Leoneans thought they had said goodbye to since the end of the war when a new police force was trained.

For over 15 years before last year, Sierra Leoneans rejoiced at what they thought was a new dispensation, the era of police restraint and professional handling of protests by citizens . But things have changed . We are back to the dark days of the 1960s through the 1990s. The Police has committed many atrocities since last year.

Yesterday, concerned citizens took to the social media to express concern and share photos of police brutalizing the Njala students.

CHAOS BROKE out on the  Njala University Bo campus when students went on the rampage because the college authorities stopped  them from taking their exams. The university authorities said that  all students must pay their  fees 100℅ before they take their exams. That  sparked the tension.

Abdul Rahim Kamara is with Abdulai Bayraytay and 31 others.

When you have thugs masquerading as police officers. Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone, are you listening? Time to start putting an end to this thuggish behavior in the guise of policing. And they have the obscene hypocrisy to call the SLP “A Force for Good”

Abdul Rahim Kamara Hope the Human Rights Commission will take up this matter. There is enough video evidence to go after the police ” officers” on the clip. Time to start putting an end to police brutality and thuggish unprofessional behavior.