Africa 24 news
A young nurse, aged 31, home was ransacked on Monday by some police army officers and her money which amounts to the tune of Le 9 million got missing in the process.
The Operation Support Division (OSD) army police raided Salamatu house at lower Kanikay, Kulbot community in the east of Freetown.
That was on Monday 5, February this year when the private community helping nurse, Salamatu, was briefly not home.
The law officers claimed that Salamatu was housing Tramadol drugs for which she has been using to treat out patients in the small impoverished community, Kulbot.
Tramadol drugs sale are not allowed by private clinics and persons either in small or in bulk quantities in Sierra Leone.
But the allegations on its sale have been denied by the young certified private nurse.
She said it was just a trick or ‘master plan’ that was cooked against her.
Adding that it is also meant to foil the case she had raised against the very police who raided her home, while she was not around, and had her money stolen away.
Alimamy Morlai Kamara knows the nurse as one of her patient and a friend.
He told Africa 24 that the matter had been dropped by the police where the other confiscated drugs had been taken to but it had left Salamatu bruise in the heart.
“She had to spend some money at the police station to get her drugs released and she could not get back the Le 9 million stolen.
“She was wrongly accused of having tramadol drugs at her home clinic,” he explained.
“It was a mere plot by the police guys being sponsored by probably by some ‘area men or women’.”
“How can a young lady be helping his neighbours around on health recovery and she is hated for that; that tells you who typical Sierra Leoneans are.”
On planning to take the matter further, Salamatu’s friend, Alimamy and others had advised her that she might not get justice since police are believed by many people that during such ‘police raiding’’ cases, these cases are sometimes treated with levity by colleague police authorities.
On this, Alimamy raised the question: “How then will a poor person like the young nurse seeks justice on this ‘fake-raid-plot’ by some police that got her money missing?”