By Our Reporter.
Fatmata Sudan Sesay, wife of Independent Observer
Editor, Sorie Sudan Sesay, has complained of a
telephone threat against her husband.
The call came yesterday evening on Sudan’s telephone
which she is currently using while her husband is in
Grahamstown, South Africa on a week-long course at
Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
"Hello, who’s speaking?" Fatmata asked a caller
who said he wanted to talk to Sudan.
"Since he is the one campaigning for Ernest Koroma,
tell him to get ready for us," the unidentified caller
said after he was told that Sudan was out of the
country.
This is not the first time that threats have
been hurled at the newspaper editor, commonly
known as ’Di Sudanese’.
At Grahamstown university campus where we spoke to
him, Sudan(photo), who is also correspondent for The
Patriotic Vanguard, revealed that two weeks ago, he received
threats by text messages in which the texter
threatened to "deal with" him and David Tam Bayoh,
the Executive Director of the controversial Citizen FM
104.7 Radio Station based at Kissy, eastern Freetown.
The text messages came a day after Sudan wrote a
highly acclaimed article titled: Ernest Koroma and The
Presidency,’ published by The Patriotic Vanguard
online.
The article generated interest not only within
Sierra Leone, as it was an accurate and interesting profile
of APC leader Ernest Koroma that covers his debut
in politics to the present.
Sudan says he never feels threatened since he
knows he is only doing his job adding, "if that’s a
crime, then I’m prepared to face it."
Sudan returns home early next week.
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