As his homosexual partner is beaten to death…… Papu Jalloh declared wanted

By Abdul Karim Bundu
This newspaper has been reliably informed that thirty-five years old Mr. Papu Jalloh, formerly of Number 22 Jones Street in Kissy in the eastern part of Freetown, is now on the run, fearing for the safety of his life after he was declared wanted by the Sierra Leone Police for the death of twenty five years old Mr. Lamin Bangura believed to have been his homosexual partner.
The reports further stated that Papu Jalloh and Lamin Bangura were for a very long time suspected to be engaged in homosexual practices, a sexual activity that is not accepted in this country and which the community people regard as an abomination, insisting that those men who are caught engaged in such unnatural and ungodly sexual practices must be killed in order to cleanse the land of such an unforgivable curse.
A source who lives in the community explained to this Reporter that for a very long time, the people had been looking for an opportunity to catch Papu and Lamin in the sexual act so that they will have reason to attack them and beat them to death in order to cleanse the land of what they described as “this unforgivable abomination.”
He explained that late on the night of 20 August, 2025, as Papu and Lamin were returning home, some young men are reported to have attacked them, subjected them to serious beatings and tortures which resulted in Lamin sustaining very serious injuries while Papu managed to escape. Lamin is reported to have been abandoned on the roadside where some people are reported to have found him and taken him to the hospital where he died from his injuries three days later.
He also disclosed that on that same night, Papu’s house was attacked, vandalised, and set on fire in which his younger sister, Miss Mariama Jalloh, reportedly died, while the rest of his family members fled from the community.
The man further explained that the Police made a few arrests and issued a warrant of arrest for Papu as the prime suspect in the deaths of Lamin and Mariama and the burning of the house.
When this Reporter requested for him to lead him to Mr. Papu Jalloh, for an interview, he told him that he did not know his whereabouts as, since the night of the attacks, Papu had disappeared from the community and he had neither been seen nor heard from.
He also stated that unidentified young men continue to visit the community, mostly during late in the night, asking for Papu and making threatening remarks that they will kill Papu the day they see him.
When this Reporter contacted the Kissy Police Station on the matter, a Police Officer told him that they were looking for one Mr. Papu Jalloh for the alleged murder of one Mr. Lamin Bangura and the burning of a house in which a young woman named Mariama Jalloh is reported to have died.
He revealed that while they were investigating the matter, they were offering a reward of twenty thousand New Leones (NLe 20,000.00) to anybody who will give them information that will lead to the arrest of Mr. Papu Jalloh.