SLPP Launches Another Attack on Women…
The Only Female District Chairperson in Sierra Leone May Spend the Night at CID on Flimsy Charges
Tonkolili District Council Chairperson, Madam Yambom Sesay, may spend the night at CID Headquarters in Freetown. She will be the second high profiled woman to be detained in less than two weeks after Femi Claudius Cole, Leader of the Unity Party was removed from her house and detained for morethan four days.
The attack and suppression of women by the current regime is reaching dangerous levels and if nothing is done sooner, Sierra Leone will cease to be a safe space for women.
We are calling on the attention of the international community especially the UN and the European Union to help protect the rights of these women whose only crime is to belong to other political parties. We believe someone out there is not happy over the recent victory of a certain political in the just concluded by – elections at Constituency 056. But if this how to show supremacy after you have been defeated, then it is a faux pas…an exercise in futility. The women of Sierra Leone are stronger than ever.
Yabom is the Chairperson of a very important District in Sierra Leone. His uneccessary arrest and detention will not augur well for the peace and national cohesion of Sierra Leone.
