The people of Makneh village in Bombali-Sharray Chiefdom in Bombali District were awoken by a very vicious attack from scores of  people who descended on the community at night, breaking into homes and carting away every properties they could lay hands on.

The attack, reports say, was led by the Paramount Chief-elect of Bombal-Sharray, PC Othoraneh formerly Daniel Raymond Kamara aka Opinto.

According to our sources, the students of the village had staged a disco dance at night after a successful sports meet.

Allegedly, whilst the dance was in progress, PC Othoraneh came to the scene with his men and called for its abrupt halt, arguing that he was not informed about the show.

After the altercation and people had gone to sleep, the Chief returned to the village that same night, with large number of hooligans from Kontha armed with sticks, stones, machetes, etc and put the entire village under siege amidst obscene languages.

During the quarrel, several buildings including schools, clinics, etc were destroyed.

The attackers did not even spare mosques, churches,  and clinics as all windows and doors of those edifices were destroyed. The house of the only blacksmith in the village was burnt down to ashes.

“Makneh village children are presently not attending school,” our sources said noting that, every chair, desk and table in the school has been destroyed, whilst education materials carted away.

“Some of the attackers whom we could identify as civilians were dressed in police uniform during the raid,” sources say.

Reportedly, all those who were identified and arrested for the incident by the police had all been released on the order of AIG North-East, Monfred Williams who is reported to have handled the matter with sheer levity.

It further alleged that, the vehicle of the Regent Chief of Bombali Sebora, Foday Conteh was used to transport the attackers at night.

When contacted, PC Othoraneh declined to comment but later stated that a paramount chief cannot lead an attack.

He said they are working to resolve the matter amicably.