The Sierra Leone Police have conducted a joint operation headed by the Regional Commander Freetown-East, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Dr. John Martin Senesie, to enforce the ban on street trading along the Abacha Street in Freetown.
In what has been described as a cat-and-mouse game between the police and street traders, owners of various stalls, tables, or ‘baffers’ were stunned to see that Abacha Street is cleared of such, and replaced with a high police presence to maintain law and order.
This saw few aggrieved traders took to the rampage by blocking the street with old tyres, sticks and stones thereby obstructing the free flow of traffic.
The police swiftly and smartly dispersed the crowd and firmly deployed police personnel along the entire Sani Abacha Street to enforce the no-street trading ban.
In a similar development, the Operations Team of the Waterloo Police Station acting on intelligence in a mid-night raid, arrested one Ali Kamara, Mahmoud Jalloh, and Ibrahim Sesay all of Susan’s Bay, Freetown, with their locally made dig-out canoes at Matainkay Wharf, Waterloo, with huge quantum of timber-boards heading to the Republic of Guinea through the River Rokel.
The leader of the smuggling network, Pa Koroma is in hiding. A water-pumping machine (bailing machine) used in the smuggling operation and several other canoes have been apprehended by the Waterloo Police.
