BY SANTIGIE KANDEH SESAY
News report filtering into this medium has intimated that the parents ‘Poro’ and Bondo secret society stakeholders in Makeni Bombali District Northern Province of the republic of Sierra Leone have unanimously resolved together with the Chiefdom police authority to declare Musa Bangura and his wife Martha Bangura wanted.
According to sources, the wanted declaration was made as direct response to what they referred to as disorderly and violent conduct displayed by Musa against society stakeholders in January, 2022.
The said incident occurred following Musa’s rejection to a proposal made to him in order to replace his aged father as head of Poro Society and his teenage wife Martha Bangura forcefully conscription by “Bondo” woman to also succeed his mother as Sowei idea championed by Musa Bangura mother, it could be recalled that in 2021 December1st a meeting was conveyed by Musa’s parents, society stakeholders and community people in Makeni where it was proposed to him to succeed his aged father, Pa. Sampha Bangura as “Poro” Chief. This medium learnt that Musa stoutly turned down their proposal.
Another meeting was further conveyed, this time around between Musa and Parents. So as to persuade their son to comply with tradition based on the fact that he was the only son and possible successor to his father as head of “Poro” Society similarly he also rejected an act his parents deemed as insult.
At that particular meeting, Musa stated crystal clear that he was not obliged to add other names to the ones he already had. Continuing he emphasized that he doesn’t intend to get tied up with any crude traditional or cultural mentality and later informed them of his plans to move to the city, Freetown.
Accordingly, laws of the Poro Society dictates that, when your father as head presented you to Poro Stakeholders whilst still alive as the eldest and only son, you automatically becomes his successor in the society bush (Banika), failure to abide with such traditional rites leads to severe consequences or death.
Traditional leaders including his parents became apparently outrageous with him a situation that posed his life under immense pressure as he was humiliated among his peers and elderly in Makeni, Bonbali District.
Teenage boys who were captured into the “Banika” against their wish for a whole year were given traditional means despite their opposition to these names. One day in a desperate mood to lure Musa, “Poro” Stakeholders ordered his father to forcefully conscript him to the “Banika” sacred bush and anything contrary is termed as disowning a tradition and customs. That had existed for generations.
Reports stated that on January, 2022, there was an open battle between Musa’s approvals. The absurd reason given by Musa mother is for the teenage girl to replace her as Sowei head of the Bondo secret society because she had no girl child.
Following Musa’s reaction to enter the Bondo bush to rescue his wife, he was attached by an army of outrageous secret societies operatives who overpowered him. He was mercilessly beaten up and in the process sustained severe injuries.
However, Musa and his wife Martha managed to escape to a village called “Makoth” where he and his wife briefly sought refuge his wife information indicated was arrested by chiefdom police officers whilst Musa was declared wanted. This medium later realized that Musa’s wife Martha escaped from the chiefdom police.
Musa Bangura and his wife Martha Bangura whereabouts are unknown after a search partly went to Makeni village to apprehend or possible strangulate him and his wife Martha to death but was nowhere to be found. This medium gathered that their life is in danger as operatives of these secretly vowed to eliminate him wherever he and his write Martha may be hiding.