KaDSA Mourns EBK-University, Makeni Student killed during Citizens Protest

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson 

​The Kambia District Students Association-(KaDSA) is mourning the death of one of their members named Mahmoud Osman Kamara, a final year student that was studying Accounting and Finance at the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, Makeni Campus who lost his life during the Wednesday Citizens Protest in Makeni in the Northern part of Sierra Leone.

He’s alleged to have been hit by a stray bullet along Rogbaneh Road in the metropolitan city's central business area on his way from the campus. He was rushed to the Makeni Regional Hospital where he was eventually confirmed dead, one of his friends Fenti Conteh told AWE-Media.SL.

Since his death was confirmed on Wednesday evening, his college mates and close friends have been pouring tributes for him on social media “calling for his death to be thoroughly investigated by state actors and perpetrators be brought to book.

In a presser, Mohamed Lamin Kamara, the KaDSA National Secretary notified fellow countrymen that the upheaval had left the Association in limbo, if not to say “in a pitiful and mournful moment,” indeed we’ve suffered from the implications of the just ended riot in the country,” he stated.

Adding the incident saddens his heart to inform the public that “KaDSA have lost one of theirs named Mahmoud Osman Kamara who was a final year student of the Accounting and Finance department at the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology (EBKUST) in Makeni, KaDSA is touched and shocked by the aforesaid “We will join the investigation team to unearth justice for our brother. 

Notwithstanding, “we’re relatively admonishing colleagues to deter themselves from issues that will result in destroying their well being as bonafide citizens of this country,” he maintained.

On his part, the Association’s President Lansana Lamin Kamara urges everyone to remember their late colleague in our open and secret prayers.