Police Declare Mohamed Alpha Jalloh Wanted

According to Police sources, one Mohamed Alpha Jalloh, a business man and known member of the main opposition party (APC), has been declared wanted in connection with the attempted coup of 26th November 2023.
Police sources say that his activities over the years have been monitored and is believed to be a collaborator in the attempted coup, aiding the escape of wanted Coupists, and his phone number discovered among numbers in the phone of an arrested suspect, who is also a known APC sympathizer. The police refused to be drawn on the specifics of Mohamed Alpha Jalloh ‘s involvement in the said coup attempt.

However, sources say that Mohamed Alpha Jalloh has had infractions with the police on several occasions since 2018, allegedly over involvement in protests against the government. They disclosed that since the APC lost the election in 2018, Mohamed Alpha Jalloh has been in and out of police custody and had spent several months in detention undergoing the inhumane treatment.
He is said to have been arrested for displaying posters and canvasing support for the main opposition party during the said 2018 elections and the June 2023 election. It was further disclosed that he has been under constant threats from ruling party operatives, who have been sending anonymous threats to him, and at some point, he had gone undergoing in fear for his life.

Family sources also confirmed that Mohamed Alpha Jalloh had been a target of the ruling party due to his unwavering commitment to his party’s drive to return to power, and had been very vocal in his condemnation of the ruling party’s failure to make the lives of citizens better, proposing as an alternative, the main opposition party (APC).
According to them, Mohamed Alpha Jalloh was nearly killed shortly after the announcement of the June 24th 2023 election results, where the ruling party was declared winner. They disclosed that he narrowly escaped death at the party headquarters of the APC, during a raid by security forces on the building where a press conference was being held to highlight the irregularities associated with the results. On that fateful day, Nurse Dumbuya, a popular opposition party member and nurse, was shot dead just next to Mohamed Alpha Jalloh, and all the members and reporters were only rescued after 11:00pm by some party members through an exit door used in cases of emergencies.
Family sources furthered that since that fateful day, Mohamed had not slept at his house, and that his house and that of his grandmother in Kono had been raided by armed security forces, who had threatened to kill him. Mohamed, it was recalled, had once taken refuge at his grandmother’s house in Kono, eastern Sierra Leone, but left there when news of his presence there was leaked.
According to the family, security forces have raided their house in search of Mohamed and have issued threats against them to produce him or face severe consequences.
Family members say that since his disappearance after the said allegations and search for him, his whereabouts are unknown.