Early Wednesday’s morning, April 12, mass shooting was reportedly heard in the Mano River town of Kongbo Town, Porkpa District in Grand Cape Mount County.
Up to press time last night, no report has confirmed any death but several locals among whom is a man only identified as Thomasalleged that a single barrel gun was shot many times by some masked wearers who are yet to be identified but are on the run.
Grand Cape Mount County’s Senator, Simeon Boima Taylor, made the confirmation to the media when he appeared on the state-owned ELBC radio station program, the Super Morning Show, yesterday in Monrovia.
He claimed that no death has been reported from the early hour incident yesterday in Kongbo but many are said to be wounded with cutlasses and other machetes, though the state security are yet to make any arrest.
Taylor claimed to have spoken many times of what allegedly happened during the dawn of midweek but the government continues to play deaf ears and if the situation is not arrested, it could exacerbate into something else.
“What happen in Kongbo of Mano River Township, is serious therefore the state must step in because it is bordered on the security of the country,” he noted.
He then reflected how vehicles in his convoy was attacked and smashed by some residents whom he accused of having links to the defeated Senator, Victor Watson, during the November, 2020, midterm senatorial elections which was held nationwide.
“My vehicles got damaged; many of those who were with me on that day got wounded and the matter was reported to the police but until now, no arrest has been made; for what I do not know,” Taylor recounts.
About the just ended Biometric Voter’s Registration exercise in the county, he accused foreigners mainly Sierra Leoneans of infiltration or melding in Liberia’s politics which he claimed does not augur well as such could stir up confusion between the two countries.
Taylor stated that besides those eight Sierra Leoneans arrested for multiple registrations during the exercise, there were others who did registerbut pointed finger at the opposition bloc mostly the Unity Party’s Standard-Bearer, Joseph NyumahBoakai, on grounds that he speaks the Mende language well.
But his allegation against the opposition bloc is yet to be independently verified by this paper. However, Taylor’s statement of reported shooting in Kongbo Town could also not be independently confirmed.
Notwithstanding, what is reportedly happening in Grand cape Mount is not a strange as that could be linked to electoral violence involving voters trucking in the ongoing BVR exercise ahead of the pending of Tuesday, October Presidential and Legislative Elections in the country.