By Saio Marrah
Magistrate Solomon Christian Kekurah of the York Court in the Freetown Peninsula has sentenced one Fatmata Kamara to two months’ imprisonment after she pleaded guilty to one count of public insult and provocation and another count of insulting conduct towards Aaron Bangura, a magistrate.
She was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each count, with the sentences running consecutively.
Pronouncing the sentence on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, Magistrate Kekurah told the convict that, “I have heard you… you are pleading for mercy. However, your conduct was disrespectful, insulting and provocative. These acts were directed to a high-level citizen of this country in the capacity of a magistrate.”
The particulars in count one are that on Thursday, March 5, 2026, Fatmata Kamara, at New Jersey Junction, second welding shop, Goderich, in view of the public and in the presence of Magistrate Aaron Bangura, the complainant, did insult him with intent to provoke him to commit a breach of the peace.
In count two, the prosecution alleged that on the same date and at the same place, the convict did make use of abusive language against Magistrate Aaron Bangura with intent to provoke him to commit a breach of the peace.
According to records, the complainant had gone to buy food from the woman (convict). After waiting for a while and the woman not attending to him, the complainant urged her to attend to him because he was in a rush. The woman then spoke to the complainant in a rough manner and used abusive language on him, upon which the complainant cautioned her to mind her words, but the woman pressed on.
Other people around also cautioned the woman to stop speaking to the complainant in such an abusive and rough manner because she didn’t know who she was dealing with, but she ignored them.
The complainant left the place without being attended to, saying he was ridiculed.
When Magistrate Kekurah asked Fatmata Kamara why she disrespected the complainant (magistrate), the convict said she was not aware that the complainant was a magistrate. The magistrate then asked her whether she needed to know an individual’s capacity before according them respect.
Lawyer Quadic Bangura represented the complainant, while the convict did not have a lawyer.
(Credit: Politico)
