Ramsey N Singbeh Jr
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Liberia-February 25, 2025: The Margibi County Detachment of the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency or LDEA has reported members of the Margibi County Detachment of the Liberia National Police or LNP in a drugs related case in which the LDEA also expresses disappointment in the manner and form in which the police handled the case.
The situation involves a half bag of marijuana caught in the possession of a 33 years old Liberian, Samuel Sannie, a resident of Kakaka under the auspices of a 38 years old Sierra Leonean National, Aisha Kamara, also a resident of Kakaka.
They were caught on the night of Saturday February 22, 2025 in the main streets of Kakaka around LoneStar Cell MTN’s Kakata Sub-office by the head of operations of the police in Margibi, Brutus Joe Korboi.
He told Throngtalk News Bureau that he detained the suspects after their arrest and turned them over in the presence of the media to the Crime Services Department or CSD of the police in the county on Monday February 24, 2025.
Following that, the police released one of the suspects, Samuel Sannie and reported the Sierra Leonean, Aisha Kamara to the LDEA in Margibi. The Officer In Charge or OIC of the LDEA in Margibi, Alex Flomo made follow up with the police raising serious concern about the release of one of the suspects before the issue got to the LDEA.
How be it, the police told our reporter that they exempted the Liberian National because the lady’s statement exonerated him.
To this, the LDEA says he was supposed to be reported as part of the case and be used as a state’s witness when the matter goes to court. Alex Flomo also explained that it is not in the purview of the police to investigate drugs cases. He further laments that ignorance of the law excuses no man.
According to a copy of Aisha’s statement, she got a call from one of her village brothers only identified as Jebro in Sierra Leone to take delivery of his goods. Following that, she received a call from a driver, unidentified who told her to go to Parker Paint Junction for the goods. She got the goods and made her way back to Kakaka, not knowing that it was drugs.
The statement also says when she got to Kakaka around LoneStar Cell MTN, she asked the 33 years old Samuel to help her take the goods at her house, promising to pay him. Aisha’s explanation notes that she, while in route with the goods at her house with the assistance of the man, they got arrested by the police before she realized that she has been carrying drugs.
She requested the police to allow her call Jebro, when she did at first, he responded and promised to call back but after a while, his phone was switched off.
Two conflicting statements came from the CSD office, one says that Brutus Joe Korboi claimed to have had a written statement made by Samuel but he did not give the CSD the statement. Another one says there is no statement from him because the lady’s explanation did not implicate him and there was also no need for that.
In the report made to the head office of the LDEA, Alex said he is surprised that only one of the suspects was reported and all his efforts with the police to understand what happened to the other suspect did not yield result.
He however called on the authority of LDEA to intervene in helping the LDEA Command in Margibi to know what happened to the male suspect who was caught with the drugs but released before the case was reported to the LDEA for investigation.
The LDEA says suspect Aisha Kamara is undergoing investigation pending court trial and the street value of the half bag of marijuana is placed at US$1,500 or its equivalent to Liberian Dollars (L$292,500) at the exchange rate of 195 and the quantity is 15.5 grams.
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