Alie Kabba charged with Bigamy
It's not the run of the mill every day type of news, even from a man's world in Africa. I can't imagine it happening in e.g. Nigeria, but it's the kind of news item devoid of any salacious details that one would half expect to read in The African Sun Times. It's the subject of an ongoing heated debate, how a Muslim like him, living in a basically polygamous society like Sierra Leone, could be charged with bigamy.
At this point he has been refused bail and been incarcerated at a maximum security prison. The story is embedded in political intrigue and victimisation politics of a Machiavellian level. The plot thickens: Dr. Alie Kabba married a minster in the current Sierra Leone Government and shortly thereafter threw in his hat to contest for the flagbearer position of the opposition party (the SLPP) with the aim of dethroning the current president at the 2017 Presidential elections. Of course, it's precisely the sort of unbridled ambition that must partly account for his current circumstances of his being denied his liberty in the " land of the free" and the unexpected sufferings under Sierra Leone's special dispensation of law and order as applicable to this presidential aspirant.
The matter is still under discussion in this Sierra Leone forum under the theme title
Government puts a gag order on Alie Kabba
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