A woman, Baby Francis allegedly stabbed a man Abdul Ensah to death yesterday morning following an argument over charcoal in Kenema city has been arrested and detained at the Kenema Police station.
Mohamed Ensah elder brother of the deceased told Awoko that his younger brother was a businessman selling what he called yum yum in the city. The murder suspect Baby Francis a cassava and bulgur trader was taken to the house by her husband Mr. Mohamed Bangura two years ago but Mr. Bangura hardly stays in Kenema as he is a miner working at Konia Kpendima village in the Nongowa chiefdom Kenema district. He said Baby Francis and her sisters’ two children stayed in the parlour room while Abdul Ensah occupied the back veranda room. Ensah further explained that Baby and the deceased were very close friends and even exchange food. Mohamed said he was in bed on Monday morning at about 8 am when one Sisi Banta reported that Baby had stabbed his younger brother following an argument over charcoal and he was lying dead in a pool of blood. According to other tenants the alleged murderer stabbed the deceased when an argument ensued between them over who had used charcoal that she wanted to use that morning to prepare her cassava for business. Baby ran away towards the Bundo bush but was chased and apprehended by a young man. She was then taken to the Kenema police station while the corpse of the deceased is now at the mortuary at the Kenema government hospital.
By Saffa Moriba in Kenema