By Crispina Cummings
A resident of Waterloo has been arrested for telling the community, through a radio broadcast, that a certain Alhassan Kargbo is behind the many deaths believed to have been caused by the Ebola virus disease.
Head of media, Inspector Edward Senesie at the 555 Police station in the Western Rural district, said Mohamed Cham had reported that he had caught a man in his early twenties “poisoning his soup”.
He said they understood that the complainant had spread “the rumour through Viasity Radio that the man had been the cause of the many deaths believed to have been caused by Ebola”.
The police investigator said after the broadcast a crowd of protesters stormed the station and demanded that the alleged “multiple killer” be released to them because “they now believed that it was the boy and not Ebola that had killed their relatives”. He added that they then arrested Cham for questioning while investigations into his allegations against Kargbo continued.
Community Headman, Mohamed Shimra Kamara, lamented the happening, saying that “the rumour is a false alarm from wicked people who want to distract people’s attentions and make them careless about Ebola”.
(C) Politico 02/10/14
