Monrovia – Some members of the Unity Party in Lofa County have reportedly carried out vandalization of the newly erected street lights and have made attempts to carry out the destruction of the newly constructed town by Rep. Thomas Fallah, FrontPageAfrica has gathered.
Report by Lennart Dodoo with contribution from Garmah Lomo in Foya, Lofa County
However, the Unity Party campaign spokesman, Mo Ali, says the incident was triggered by supporters of Rep. Fallah who began throwing stones at members of the Unity Party from his fence.
Two people are believed to have died from the violence and several were injured, including a law enforcement officer.
Ernest Duku Jallah, a supporter of the ruling CDC currently in Foya told FrontPageAfrica that Rep. Fallah had advised his supporters in Foya to stay off the streets and avoid wearing the party’s T-shirt in order to give way for the Unity Party campaign launch in the District.
However, he said to his surprise, he saw members of the opposition Unity Party on the rampage, destroying street lights and attacking people whom they knew to be supporters of the CDC.
A video posted by Rep. Fallah on Facebook shows a graphic picture of the people of the area running helter-skelter with some men holding sticks in their hands.
Speaking to FrontPageAfrica from Foya, Journalist Garmah Lomo explained that she was on her way from Kolahun when she saw people believed to be supporters of the Unity Party in area where Rep. Fallah’s compound is located and began engaging in stone-throwing into his fence.
According to her, they were chanting “Thomas Fallah da rogue, we’ll not vote for him”.
She said she witnessed the destruction of the street lights in the area and further explained that a motorcyclist who had a CDC campaign sticker on his bike was brutally mobbed and is believed to have died at their hands.
In retaliation, she said members of the CDC also set up a roadblock and threatened to harm and any Unity Party member that crossed their line. This, according to Journalist Lomo led to the beating of an older believed to be a member of the opposition Unity Party.
She said Police in their area said they were not equipped to adequately respond to such riots.
Unity Party campaign spokesman, Mo Ali, who is currently in Monrovia said he gathered that members of his party had gathered at a major intersection which isn’t far from Rep. Fallah’s compound to welcome other members who were coming from nearby towns for a major program being hosted by the party in the Foya.
He explained that while they were at the intersection, members of the CDC in Rep. Fallah’s compound began throwing stones at them. They, too, according to him, responded with stone-throwing.
“And in the process, while they were exchanging the throwing of stones, one of our supporters was collected by the Thomas Fallah people and was dragged into his headquarters’ fence. We don’t know the status of that person,” he said.
He emphasized that it was well known Foya that Unity Party was having its program today in the District and therefore did not expect interference from the ruling CDC.
