By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Chairman of the Pujehun District Council Sheik Suhibu Sowa has confirmed the withdrawal of a case he filed against ruling Sierra Leone’s Peoples Party’s Pujehun District Public Relations Officer, Alpha Kamara, following a report Politico published last week.
According to court papers seen by Politico, councilor Kamara was to have appeared before a Magistrate yesterday, 7th December 2021 to answer a six count charge in a case brought against him by Sheikh Sowa.
The councilor who twice represented Gobaru chiefdom was accused of threatening to kill the District Council Chairman at the party’s office in Pujehun. The other charges include ‘public insult and provocation, insulting conduct, common assault, abusive language, and riotous conduct’.
Councilor Kamara was in addition accused of ‘insulting and using provocative words’ against the district council chairman, ‘in such a manner as would be likely to provoke him to commit a breach of the peace'.
Responding to the charges, councilor Kamara earlier told Politico that he was surprised to have been issued a court summons over an altercation that occurred during a party meeting. He said he was the campaign chairman for Sheik Sowa when he vied for the council chairmanship, a role he said gave him more enemies than friends.
However, Kamara during the initial report told Politico that some relatives of the plaintiff, Sowa, and other party members had approached him for the matter to be resolved at party level instead of going to court.
Chairman Sowa and councilor Kamara had an altercation during a meeting called to galvanize support for Alex Bhonapha who is vying for the party’s national chairman position, which led to court summon.
However, the chairman could not say why he withdrew the case from court except saying it was solely his discretion.
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