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From Standard Times Press News Paper NEWS Port Loko township, a very notorious place for political vendetta, fanfare, gossips and where the impossibility can be made possible is again on the spot light. This time round the Port Loko township and its precinct was a Mecca when news of the well-talked about well-armed drug cartels numbered seven were arrested and whisked to the Port Loko Police Station under the command of the Support Officer, Emmanuel Kargbo and his Force-For-Good Boys.
It all started when strange foreign nationals hibernating in Port Loko under the guise of NGO workers decided to hire one Alimamy, aka Rambo, a transporter to ferry them from their Sheriffa Street Office to a destination in Freetown. They negotiated for a fee of One Million Leones according to Rambo who explained to Standard Times Northern Province Correspondent, and to also buy fuel at a cost of Le100, 000 per gallon. As they are not too aufait with the different routes in the community, Rambo; being suspicious of them, demonstrated patriotism when he decided to drive them to the Drivers’ Union Office in Port Loko, who without wasting time informed the police.
At the Police Station, it became clear that the NGO workers were in fact drug traders and had been engaged in this illegal trade since their arrival in Port Loko without the least suspicion of members of the public. Among them were Mexicans and Cubans.
According to sources, these nationals had been using Port Loko as the distributing centre for drugs. Drugs from the Lungi International Airport were conveyed to Port Loko, kept at their residence at Sheriff Street and later distributed to agents in Guinea, Liberia, Banjul, The Gambia and shipped to Europe. “This trade has been going on for sometime now” A neighbour of the NGO office remarked.
The fake NGO office building at Sheriffa Street office is owned by a Dr. Alhassan Sesay, who according to investigation rented out the building to them in foreign currency. When this reporter visited the scene there were traces of burnt local currency notes and documents. Police now have in their custody a Land Rover with registration number ADQ 067, another vehicle that looked like an Ambulance with registration number ADQ 212 and a Guinean number plate. These vehicles are mostly seen according to residents of Lungi-Port Loko highway plying the routes during odd hours, and also seen sometimes heading to Guinea with that country’s number plate.
On Tuesday 15th July 2008 police nabbed one Alex Lebbie of the Port Loko Government Hospital who it is reported was the caretaker of the Sheriffa Street office in a bid to help the police in their investigation. As we go to press a team of Forensic experts accompanied by OSD Dumbuya paid another visit to the office.
In another related development, at around 8.30 PM yesterday; plain clothes police officers arrested three foreign nationals carrying Venezuelan passports as they were about to board a Helicopter at the WFP Helipad in Aberdeen-Lumley. The three people are an Israeli, Syrian and a Belgian. Eye witness states that they were taken to the nearest police Station for safe custody
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