OPINION > Something To Think About How Late Justice Taju Deen Lands In Jail.....The Plotter Bockarie Kakay is Back Posted by on Apr 2, 2008, 02:13

His colleagues used to call him “the legal brain”, but he ended his profession not abruptly but in shame and disgrace and when he was whisked to the Pademba Road Maximum Prison for an alleged offence of corruption. He was welcomed and greeted with thunderous approach. “The Judge who used to send us to prison is here with us. He is our quest”

Prisoners who were serving sentence ranging from one to an unimaginable number of years were quoted to have said. He never imagined or predicted during his life-time that the dungeon he used to deposit human beings would be his place for few days, weeks and months until he went on hunger strike. One could imagine how tormented, frustrated and humiliated he felt at the time for a high court judge of such caliber to find himself in the midst of hard core criminals, making mockery of him.

It was a sad spectacle, but a lesson for others to learn that there are times and moments in one’s life that the unexpected happens and one has to stay with it. Justice Taju Deen is dead and gone, but records at the Law Court has his name as a one time convict who was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to certain number of years until he was granted presidential pardon. The stigma, he was not able to wash himself of until death put an end to his existence on earth. He may not be happy with death, but it was necessary at the time that it became a solution to his problem, the shame and disgrace he either knowingly or unknowingly found himself.

The individual who fast-tracked the death of the late Justice Taju Deen is around, perhaps putting plans together to send another Justices of the Peace, High Court Judge, Magistrate, Appellate Court Judge or Supreme Court Judge to the Pademba Road Maximum Prison for them to learn that not every accused person or complainant they should do business with behind close door.

Bockarie Kakay, sat down and said to himself I must not be the only victim of corruption, and looked into the eyes of the late Justice Taju Deen; he must come with me he concluded. Indeed, he packaged attractive stimulants, a Jeep, Satellite dish with decoder, and physical cash to the tune of Five Million Leones, which he skillfully and craftily used to darken the reasoning ability and patriotic spirit of one of the most feared judges. Walked into his residence and presented the items to him and asked to change white to black for him to be set free from the rice seedling case which was presided over by him. The late Justice Taju Deen was over-whelmed, excited and intoxicated with what was presented to him for assistance without knowing that it was a trap, masterminded a business pharaoh. Cleverly, Kakay had documented the serial numbers of the jeep, satellite, decoder and the money which he later handed over to the Anti- Corruption Commission and disappeared out of the borders of Sierra Leone. In Guinea, he presented a Guinean Passport claiming the citizenship of the country. In it, he secured a five-year United States visa and went away while the Anti Corruption Commission was using the information supplied by him against the late Taju Deen until they obtained each and every item that marched with the evidence. The over 70- year-old man was astonished, shaky and downcast when he was finally apprehended and in the he was asked by his colleague, the presiding judge Justice Patricia Macauley to respond the Jeep, Satellite and money.

Unfortunately, there was no convincing defence he could advanced to set him free as he did for Bockarie Kakay who by then was munching harm burger, Kentucky Fried Chicken and soda in Virginia, laughing at the demise of a High Court Judge whose reputation and future he has skillfully and craftily destroyed.

To some Sierra Leoneans, and those new practicing Magistrates, Judges and Justices of the Peace who have not been told how one of their colleagues lost his fame, reputation that resulted to his death; this is the true story and they should keep their distances from Bockarie Kakay who is currently in town trying to destroy another creation of God. At State House he contacted somebody very closed to President Koroma and requested for a contract to import over fifteen tons of rice. He was not only rebuffed but was told that the APC government is not contracting individuals to import rice to this country. With trade liberalization every individual, businessmen or companies have the right to import commodities that and needed, consumed and sellable. With these words, he has still not relented, trying to access those he thinks can make things happen with ulterior motive and clandestine intention of how to dupe the new government and flee to the United States of America.

The late justice Taju Deen in his grave would say here comes again to Sierra Leone, the monster who plotted my downfall. He is here again to make history against my colleagues for he succeeded with me because of greed, lack of contentment, unpatriotism and selfishness, but may Allah strike if he attempts to do it again.

Just few days back, the Appellate Court restored the dignity of Dr. Harry Will and Lamin Feika whose reputations were messed up and tarnished as a result of their interaction with Bockarie Kakay, the wheeler dealer who is always out to make the homes of others unhappy.