According to reports reaching this medium, Esther Smith (D.O.B: 17 February, 1988) and her siblings Ruth Francess Kongoma-Sinnah (D.O.B: 09 December, 2006) and brother Joseph Mark Kongoma-Sinnah (D.O.B: 15 September, 2009) escaped death during the August 10th, 2022 protest, whilst Ruth’s father a former civil servant working for the Ministry of Lands and active supporter of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party was shot dead.

Sources say during the August 10th, 2022 protest, Ruth’s father and Esther’s husband together with youth went out on the street of Freetown to protest against the crunching economic hardship due to bad economic policies of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) government.

Reports further stated that that the late man at one time in his community gathered the youth and engaged them about the current trending economic hardship and its impacts on their lives and told them that the country is really hard for them to survive.

Sources indicated that he told the youth that if they are planning to demonstrate, they must do it peacefully without causing any harm and they must galvanized themselves in order to come out in large numbers during the day scheduled for the protest.

During the demonstration live rounds bullet shot led to the death of Ruth and Joseph father while Esther’s husband sustained serious injuries from gun shots, the source went on that Esther’s  husband was fortunate to have escaped the live firing of guns shots and immediately ran home to his wife and children and explained to them the current happenings and advised her to pick up her siblings and escape  whist he escaped with the children (Grace Smith, David Smith and Miracle Sesay) despite sustaining severe injuries.

Following their escape from Freetown for their dear lives not to be snuffed out by orders from above, Esther and her husband missed their way and could not locate each other and Esther had to run with her younger sister all the way to Magburaka and resided with her maternal aunty.

Confirmed report stated that Esther Smith and Ruth Francess Kongoma-Sinnah were forced into the female circumcision known as ‘Bondo’ by one of their maternal aunty in Magburaka, North of Sierra Leone which they stoutly rejected.

In Magburaka, sources say Esther’s aunt requested that her younger sister Ruth should go through the female circumcision initiation rite but Esther frowned at the idea because she lost her younger sister during the process of female circumcision and was afraid that same will happen to her youngest sister.

Reliable sources said that Esther’s aunt went further to request that the former become a member of the female society to carry the title known as ‘Sowei’ to replace her as head of the society. However,this situation forced Esther to escape again from Magburaka to an unknown destination where she ran into one of her late father’s friend who helped with some money as transport fare which facilitated their movement and until now their current destination is yet unknown.

The female ‘Bondo’ secret society is believed by reliable sources to be exclusively controlled by its members who are in all walks of life and the government does not in any way interfere into their activities.

Since the escape of Esther and her younger sister and brother from Magburaka their lives have been placed under constant threat by their aunt who has searched in all the nearby towns and villages for the duos.

Due to Esther’s constant defiance and resistance against her aunt for her younger sister to be circumcised, this medium can authoritatively say that plans are underway to eliminate the lives of both sisters and brother.

As we went to press, credible sources have confirmed that, hired and trained killers have been assigned to kill them if seen.

The decision to eliminate the duos is largely connected to Esther’s rejection of her aunt’s idea for her younger sister to go through the female circumcision initiation rite and eventually become her aunt’s successor.