Mysterious Baboon killed in Pujehun in Sierra Leone

[From “Crypto Journal”. February, 3/ 2006.]

Awareness Times has been authoritatively informed at a usual police weekly press briefing that a fierce looking baboon which has been terrorizing some parts of Pujehun has been killed in a joint operation of the police and youths in the township, on 29th January 2006.

It could be noted that a few weeks ago, there were reports that a mysterious baboon was causing havoc in the Kpanga Kabonde chiefdom in the Pujehun district. According to police sources, the mysterious animal was notorious for terrorizing women and children, thus making the entire population to live in perpetual fear.

Accordingly, the strange beast attacked and inflicted serious bodily harm on a number of people, some of whom taken for emergency treatment.

The killing of the said animal came as welcomed news to the entire inhabitants of the chiefdom.

Amidst jubilation, some of the inhabitants expressed the view that they can now sleep in peace as their tormentor had been killed.

Some even had the view that the animal was not ordinary.

It could be noted that only three months ago, a similar strange animal was reported to have been killed in the Koinadugu district, after killing a number of people and cows.

WCSRO, 2006.