{"id":87294,"date":"2019-03-31T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=87294"},"modified":"2019-03-31T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:47:26","slug":"sierra-leone-military-officer-shot-dead-by-bodyguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=87294","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Military Officer Shot Dead by Bodyguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergeant Major Issa Kamara of the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces (RSLMF) has been shot dead in a shower of bullets by his bodyguard Private Jalloh (in photo), after a short exchange in their deployment in Sierra Rutile yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier, Private Jalloh after receiving instructions from his boss, rushed into his room for his rifle which he released on the major with 28 rounds of bullets.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit has been arrested and detained at the military headquarters in Freetown.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87296\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/?attachment_id=87296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87296\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87296\" src=\"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-deceased-Sergeant-Major-Issa-Kamara-303x539.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-deceased-Sergeant-Major-Issa-Kamara-303x539.jpg 303w, https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-deceased-Sergeant-Major-Issa-Kamara-406x722.jpg 406w, https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-deceased-Sergeant-Major-Issa-Kamara.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The deceased Sergeant Major Issa Kamara<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Private Jalloh was reportedly annoyed with his deployment, which could be the cause of his reaction. He was quoted as saying that his new deployment had no tips!<\/p>\n<p>According to military sources, the culprit will be court marshaled shortly. He faces the risk of being executed by firing squad.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergeant Major Issa Kamara of the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces (RSLMF) has been shot dead in a shower of bullets by his bodyguard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[699,11448],"tags":[21497,23762,23763,21512],"class_list":["post-87294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-local-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-private-jalloh","tag-sergeant-major-issa-kamara","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87294","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87297,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87294\/revisions\/87297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}