IPNEWS: Intense fear has gripped residents of the Mining town of John Logan, over the reported disappearance of a diamond boy identified as Sando Johnson.
According to eyewitnesses who spoke to our roving reporter on Monday, August 15, the 29-year-old man left the house early Wednesday morning, the 10th of August 2022 along with his colleagues to go to work as usual. They further narrated that when they got to the work site, Sando began to complain about his stomach and was therefore asked to go back home and take medicine.
The eyewitnesses also informed our reporter that while on his way home, he apparently got missing.
John Logan Town is a diamond mining area located in Worr Administrative District, electoral District #1 B in Grand Bassa County. Speaking to IPNEWS on the disappearance of the Diamond Boy, the Commissioner of the Worr Administrative District, Daniel Yekeh Johnson, indicated that the incident happened in Duahyu Village about forty-five minutes away from John Logan Town by foot and miners usually walk that path to work.
Commissioner Yekeh Johnson disclosed that upon hearing the information, he immediately ordered a manhunt by deploying one hundred men while at the same time contacting the Liberia National Police to assist with the search and investigation.
Police Officers of the District #1 Detachment have since arrived in the area and according to IPNEWS reporter, they have begun conducting a preliminary investigation. Up to Press time, the missing man had not been found but Duahyu Village Elder Chief and the diamond boys with whom the missing man work, are being held as suspects.
It can be recalled in June of this year, a similar situation occurred in another town, thirty-five miles south of John Logan Town where an elderly man, 82 years old went missing and was found dead nearly two months after in a nearby Creek beyond recognition. The 82 years old man’s disappearance caused residents of Monden Town and surrounding villages to panic because they alleged that the local government authorities did not involve the police and no investigation was done to establish the disappearance and death of the elderly man.
It is a known fact that there is no presence of police officers in the entire Worr Administrative District since it was created as part of the Diahn-Statutory District during the erstwhile National Transitional Government under Chairman Charles Gyude Bryant (deceased).
As a result, crimes are commonplace for criminals who constantly harass village dwellers and sometimes make away with their belongings.
Observers believe, that where there are no law enforcement agencies, there can be no rule of law, and survival of the fittest becomes the order of the day. Seykajipo Amegashie writes; 0777594750/0880554136; seykajipobatekwa@gmail.com
