Rapper Boss LAJ has allegedly being injected and his hair cut off in cell by the Police, according to his brother

Freetown | 15th June 2022 | Vertex Media

Popular Sierra Leone rapper Alhaji Amadu Bah, better known as Boss LAJ has allegedly being, tortured, injected with red liquid and his hair was forcefully cut off by the Sierra Leone Police, as narrated by his brother Ishmail Bah in a live Facebook interview with Nino Brown last night.

LAJ who was arrested on Sunday 12th June on his way to witness the Sierra Leone vs Guinea Bissau match in Guinea, was taken into custody by the police for alleged ‘robbery’ of about Le 450,000 at a fuel station in Freetown.

According to Ishmail, Boss LA was making his statement at the Congo Cross Police station on Sunday when a pickup vehicle with OSD Police officers entered the station, tore LAJ’s statement and forcefully took him to an unknown location, which he (Ishmail) later confirmed as the popular torture detention center known as ‘Bengazi‘. His whereabout was hidden from his family and the public, until when Ishmail insisted on seeing him. He was then rushed to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday, where his lawyer and brother met him.

Ishmail furthered that he saw, touched and spoke with his brother LAJ at the CID where he explained to him how he was treated by the Police. Laj explained to him that on Sunday midnight, 3 Police Officers came to his cell to cut his hair, he refused and resisted them. The reinforced with other 7 officers (10 officers in total) who forcefully injected him with red liquids and cut off his hair. He said LAJ told him he overheard the Police Officers saying they had orders from their boss to carry-out the exercise. When they eventually cut off his hair, LAJ requested the Police to give him back his hair, but they refused and burnt it in front of him.

From what Ishmail narrated, LAJ’s detention is political. His initial statements at the Congo Cross Police Station were completely destroyed by the other officers who invaded the station and took him away. He is now being charged with an offence of robbery.

The details of Ishmail’s narrations are yet to be verified and the Sierra Leone Police have not yet responded to these allegations.

Entertainers have took to social in solidarity with their colleague, Boss LAJ, calling for justice.