Police Declares Alhassan Tarawally Wanted

According to Police sources, one Alhassan Tarawally and others have been declared wanted after they were freed from the central prison on Pademba Road, on 26th November 2023, when a group of military and police officers stormed the prison during their attempt to overthrow the government of President Bio.

The police said that out of over 2,600 inmates in the facility prior to the incident, only about 1,300 have been rearrested, with the others still at large, some of them being among the priority list of wanted persons.
According to police sources, Alhassan Tarawally and others were arrested during the bloody riot that took place on 10th August 2022, during which he and the others are said to have attacked security forces trying to quell the violence that claimed the lives of 6 police officers and some 32 civilians. Alhassan Tarawally is said to have been among those who pelted the police with stones, leading to the death of some of those officers, and after his arrest, he and others arrested that day were kept at the central prison awaiting completion of the investigation and subsequent trial.

However, family sources of Alhassan Tarawally interviewed by this medium say that he was innocently imprisoned and that he was simply protesting against the hardship faced by everyone, and that the government saw all those arrested as members or supporters of the main opposition party (APC), and even accused the party of being behind the protest. The President branded the protesters as terrorists, hence their incarceration at the central prison.
In respect of his escape from prison, family members stated that live video footage was seen over social media of the storming of the prison by the coupists, and that they broke open the facility to free some of their colleagues kept there by the government, and all inmates took the opportunity to flee the facility, amidst heavy firing.

Family sources maintained that after the prison break and statements by the government of tough actions, coupled with the cordoning of some areas by armed security forces, Alhassan Tarawally simply touched briefly at the house and left without telling anyone where he was going. They furthered that shortly after he left, armed security forces in the company of ruling party youths, stormed their house looking for him. They beat and threatened them to show them where he had gone to. And after failing to get any further information, the team left, but had since continued to harass them, with random raids that have resulted in beating and taking away of their belongings.
They maintained that since leaving the house in that brief visit after his escape from prison, the whereabouts of Alhassan Tarawally are still unknown, and the police have continued to raid their house.