EXCLUSIVE: Top Nigeria Customs officers enmeshed in multi-billion naira corruption scandalFood security: The Bago challenge, By Dakuku PetersideEXCLUSIVE: Top Nigeria Customs officers enmeshed in multi-billion naira corruption scandalFood security: The Bago challenge, By Dakuku PetersideKamara looks on to his lawyers from his protective glass box in 2022 trial. Credit: Leslie Lumeh/New Narratives
He said Kamara took one brother a short distance away, and the witness heard a gunshot. He then saw his brother’s dead body. There was a moment of levity in the court when the witness said he was one of his father’s 150 children, prompting some laughter. But the heavy mood returned when he said Ulimo killed 15 of his uncles.
“If you look at the stories of what Ulimo did in Foya you will see no end,” the witness told the court.One witness described a day known as “Black Monday” when Ulimo commanders “Major Fofana” and Kosiah called all the men of the town together. He said they chose 16 young men that they believed were working with their rivals, the NPFL, who were in the bush after Ulimo had driven them out of Foya. Everyone but the 16 men were told to go home. The witness said the 16 young men were slaughtered.
The man was asked if he recognised Mr Kamara, sitting in a protective glass case, as the man he saw in 1993. Without looking at Mr Kamara, the man confirmed that Mr Kamara was the same man. The labour was extreme and exhausting, and some men could not keep up. Witnesses said several men who could not go on were shot along the way.