IPNEWS: On April 13, 2024, the authoritative Independent Probe Newspaper reported about ongoing investigation by the Liberia National Police over the discovery of a lifeless body of an inmate at the Salem Police Depot located on the Airfield Sinkor.
According to IPNEWS investigation, the lifeless body of Prince Wlehju, a resident of 18 Street Sinkor was found hanging in the cell along with five other inmates.
Police preliminary investigation of the five other inmates told police investigators that they were at sleep to get up to the lifeless body of their fellow inmate Prince Wlehju.
IPNEWS further investigation gathered that the deceased was taken to the Salem Police Depot by an unnamed Lawyer who alleged that the deceased who is said to be a mechanic had been on the run with his Two Hundred United States dollars (200.00) to repair his damaged vehicle until he was spotted at a entertainment place on 11thย Street Sinkor which led to his arrest.
Now, the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INHCR) says it is setting up an independent Civil Society Organizations to conduct an independent investigation into the death of Prince Wlehju.
On April 13, 2024 the lifeless body ofย Prince Wlehju, a resident of 18 Street in Monroviaโs Sinkor suburbs believed to be in his 30s, was found hanging in the cell along with five other inmates at the Salem Police Depot near the Spriggs Payne Airport in Sinkor.
According to family sources, Prince Wlehju was taken to the police station by Commissioner Mohammed Fahnbulleh, a commissioner at the NCHR in his official vehicle belonging to INHCR marked LB-3609.
Report said the deceased was taken to the Police Depot by Commissioner Mohammed Fahnbulleh who alleged that the deceased who is said to be a mechanic had been on the run with his Two Hundred United States dollars to repair his damaged vehicle until he was spotted at a local entertainment center that led to his arrest.
But Speaking Monday at a news conference in Sinkor, the Commission Chairperson, Dempster Brown said the Institution will the death seriously and will make sure all those who committed the crimes are brought to book.
Against this backdrop,ย Cllr. Brown saidย that the Commission have asked Commissioner Mohammed Fahnbulleh to step aside from the Commission until an independent investigation is conducted.
He said the INHCR will also not get involve in the investigation to avoid conflict of interest and to safe the image of the Commission as an integrity institution.
Cllr. Brown however called on the Ministry of Justice to promptly investigate the matter from the inception to the circumstances that resulted in the death of Princeย Wlehju and to call for questioning all actors involved from the arrest, detention and subsequent death of Prince Wlehju.
โIn view of the above, the Commission is calling on the government of Liberia through the Ministry of Justice to assure the bereaved family on every step leading to the investigation of a fair justiceโ. He noted.
Meanwhile, Cllr. Brown want government to conduct an autopsy on the body of Prince Wlehju to ensure Justice nothing that they believe it is the derelict of duty in the circumstance where someone died at the Police station where life is supposed to be protected.
