{"id":23669,"date":"2011-05-11T00:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T04:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=23669"},"modified":"2011-05-11T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T04:59:23","slug":"president-koroma-sets-murderers-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=23669","title":{"rendered":"President Koroma sets murderers free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Convicts awaiting the death penalty enjoyed a Presidential pardon on Independence Day April 27<sup>th, <\/sup>2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ritual murderers Michael Josiah and Mustapha Bojon have had their names on the list of persons granted Presidential mercy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two were convicted at the high court of Sierra Leone for ritually pioneering the murder of one George Squire formerly of Ngalahun Village in the Bo district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael, Mustapha and four others caught the deceased as he made his way to the bushes around Ngalahun Village to tap palm wine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His hands, penis and other parts were removed. And his corpse was later conveyed to a nearby female society bush and abandoned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Findings have it that the perpetrators had used charm to overcome the deceased before killing him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is revealed that the deceased was made speechless, butchered and parts taken from him for ritual purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police in Bo arrested Michael, Mustapha and four others owing to revelation from an old woman, who was by the alleged female cultural bush and saw all that happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unconfirmed sources articulate that the inclusion of the names of hard core murderers (Michael and Mustapha) came due to a lady (daughter of Michael), who on countless occasions paid money to secure the release of her father.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Questions as to criteria used by the office of the President in granting pardon to convicted criminals have been raised by concerned citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been told to this press that the selection of names for Presidential pardon is done not by the office of the President but handful of Prison officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credible information states that most, who now enjoys Presidential pardon, bribed Prison officials or politicians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A source in Bo has told this press that indigenes of Ngalahun Village and it surroundings are unhappy over the release of Michael and Mustapha by President Koroma.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicts awaiting the death penalty enjoyed a Presidential pardon on Independence Day April 27th, 2011. Ritual murderers Michael Josiah and Mustapha Bojon have had their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,673,1],"tags":[8284,8285,8286,8287],"class_list":["post-23669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-michael-josiah","tag-murderers-set-free","tag-mustapha-bojon","tag-presidential-pardon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}