An agent of the elite security guard, the Executive Protection Service (EPS), early Saturday Morning stabbed to death a car washer in Katata, Margibi County.
According to people who witnessed the incident at first hand, the EPS agent, Gabriel Kamara, had accused the victim of stealing his girlfriend’s phone.
Agent Kamara arbitrarily arrested and detained the car washer in his car for interrogation. While interrogating him, Agent Kamara tortured and stabbed the car washer in his stomach. As the car washer bled profusely, the EPS agent further threatened to cut the car washer’s intestines one by one till he produces his girlfriend’s phone.
While crying out for help, passersby got concerned and arrested the situation, but by the time they could rush the car washer to hospital he was already dead.
This prompted a protest action by angry residents of Katata, who set the EPS agent’s vehicle ablaze. However, the EPS Agent while he escaped the scene.
In a related development, the Executive Protection Service has disrobed, with immediate effect, two of its agents who were involved in a fracas that led to the death of one person in Kakata, Margibi County. Agents Gabriel S. Kamara and Carlay A. David have been turned over to the Liberia National Police (LNP) for investigation.
A commotion is reported to have ensued when the suspects, in pursuit of a man who reportedly had gotten away with a phone during a ceremony, were attacked by an angry mob. The ensuing altercation resulted into the death and burning of a vehicle belonging to one of the EPS agents.
The police have made some arrests, while investigating the circumstances leading to the violence. The authorities in the county have been authorized to leave no stone unturned in their push towards bringing to book all those involved in Saturday’s violence.
The EPS reiterated its commitment to the rule of law in the fulfillment of its responsibilities. However, while the EPS maintained that it will not shield any of its personnel involved in acts of transgression as has been demonstrated in the past, it also urged the general public to refrain from taking the law into their hands.
