Vice President Sam Sumana Running for His Life
March 14, 2015
Sierra Leone Telegraph
14 March 2015
Sierra Leone’s vice president Sam Sumana who last week was expelled from the ruling APC party is today seeking asylum at the American embassy in Freetown.
He is understood to have fled his home where he had spent two weeks in self-imposed quarantine following the death of one of his bodyguards from Ebola.
Sam Sumana is no longer running away from the clutches of Ebola, but president Koroma’s secret service who are believed to be hunting him down.
The home of the hounded vice president was this morning raided by heavily armed security forces. His security staff have been disarmed.
Sam Sumana’s fate seems to have been decided by the president, once the decision to expel him from the ruling party had been made last week.
But today he is fighting to secure his life and that of his wife, as they await the decision of the American embassy regarding his asylum request.
The President has established a new heavily armed personal paramilitary force that is now poised to crush any sign of opposition or dissent as he tightens his grip on power.
This worrying development comes in the wake of the sentencing of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo’s wife for the part she played in the violence that engulfed the country after her husband refused to give up power.
Sierra Leone Telegraph
14 March 2015
Sierra Leone’s vice president Sam Sumana who last week was expelled from the ruling APC party is today seeking asylum at the American embassy in Freetown.
He is understood to have fled his home where he had spent two weeks in self-imposed quarantine following the death of one of his bodyguards from Ebola.
Sam Sumana is no longer running away from the clutches of Ebola, but president Koroma’s secret service who are believed to be hunting him down.
The home of the hounded vice president was this morning raided by heavily armed security forces. His security staff have been disarmed.
Sam Sumana’s fate seems to have been decided by the president, once the decision to expel him from the ruling party had been made last week.
But today he is fighting to secure his life and that of his wife, as they await the decision of the American embassy regarding his asylum request.
The President has established a new heavily armed personal paramilitary force that is now poised to crush any sign of opposition or dissent as he tightens his grip on power.
This worrying development comes in the wake of the sentencing of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo’s wife for the part she played in the violence that engulfed the country after her husband refused to give up power.
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