By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
Lawyer Pa Momoh Fofanah has dismissed a statement by the Ministry of Lands accusing him of involvement in plot against the minister as “misleading”.
On Wednesday the ministry released a statement alleging that the minister was attacked by a group of youths in Masimbo Village, Regent. In the same statement, Lawyer Fofanah was singled out as interfering in land disputes that are believed to have provoked the attack on the minister.
“The Ministry frowns upon the actions of Pa Momoh Fofanah regarding state land management in the Western Area and is warning him forthwith to desist from interfering into the mandate of the ministry,” it stated.
Fofana in a four-page letter addressed to the ministry said not only is the allegation against him misleading, but that it was also intended to intimidate and frighten him from defending his clients and defenceless Sierra Leoneans.
The press release “is born out of malice and frivolous vexation in the view of the fact that, I have on a number of occasions - acting for myself and my clients, brought to your minister and ministry’s attention various conducts which I consider under our laws as sovereign democratic nation to be unlawful, violent, intimidating and out of tune with the decorum expected of the high office that the Lands Minister, Dr Denise Sandi occupies,” he wrote.
Fofanah indicated that the Ministry’s release was also an illustration of a personal vendetta harboured by the Minister against him stemming several years ago when he defended a client against Sandi.
His statement comes barely 24 hours after the Ministry’s statement.
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