RURAL MONTSERRADO – State Radio has reported that a land dispute has left two persons critically wounded to the point of being hospitalized.
The incident, which took place early this week, was triggered by the alleged sale of a family plot of land.
The fracas was occasioned by the use of machetes and other weapons, leading to several individuals being severely injured, according to State Radio, ELBC correspondent in the area.
Two victims rushed to the Bensonville Hospital, in Bentol City, explaining their ordeal to State Radio, revealed that they were attacked and wounded with machetes by some family members after they demanded their share of proceeds from the recent sale of four acres of family land believed to belong to the Kanneh’s.
On numerous occasions, some unnamed members of the Kanneh family have persistently threatened to harm two of their brothers, Abu Kanneh and Yaya Kanneh, should the pair continue to demand their share of the sale of land.
Abu told ELBC radio he was stabbed several times, leading to him being hospitalized.
Another wounded brother, Yaya Kanneh, narrated that the incident occurred when his brothers allegedly sold four acres of their family land in Gborkolleh Town and left them out of the distribution of the money.
Yaya, who explained that he was chopped with a cutlass multiple times by family members including Yaba, Tokpah, Papay, Samukai, and Samuel, who all he said are currently on the run, disclosed that the Kanneh family has over six hundred acres of land in Gborkolleh Town, but that the property has over four administrators, which he believes is why tension is always mounting in the family.
The Liberia National Police (LNP) has arrested two individuals in connection with the bloody incident in Gborkolleh Town. Those detained are Momo Passaway and Momo Bility.
A police investigation has revealed that Morris Gibson, the town chief of Gborkolleh Town, Augustine Femah Domue, Papay Sunday, and Momo Bility are among those linked to the Monday bloody riot.
Meanwhile one of the wounded persons, Abu Kanneh is calling on the Government of Liberia to promptly intervene in the Kanneh’s land dispute to avoid reoccurrence of the recent gory incident in Rural Montserrado.
Edited by Olando Testimony Zeongar.
