BY TICHA LEMP LEMP MEDIA PRODUCTION
“Mr. Sam Bockarie (i.e. Mosquito) reportedly died in a shootout, Sunday night (4th May 2003) with government security forces who got orders to arrest him for possible prosecution in Sierra Leone.
“Reports said when government security forces, who spotted Mr Bockarie, tried to arrest him, he refused to submit to the arrest and instead chose to engage them in a gun battle.
“During the fight that ensued, according to the report, Mr Bockarie’s bodyguards fired and killed a Liberian government soldier before he was himself shot and killed along with his backers.
“Mr Bockarie’s remains was brought to Monrovia and deposited at the Samuel Stryker Funeral Home in Sinkor, awaiting identification.”
-Rudolph M. Mulbah, News Editor of the Monrovia Guardian newspaper.
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO EVADE ARREST, SAM BOCKARIE FINALLY QUENCHED!
(Alex Dunn, Guest Writer Monrovian Guardian Wednesday 7th May 2003)
“Sam Bockarie has reportedly been killed by Liberian government troops while trying to forcefully re-enter Liberia from Cote d’Ivoire, where he had been involved in mercenary activities.”
PRESS STATEMENT FROM LURD SECRETARIAT, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, VOINJAMA, LOFA COUNTY, REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
“The leadership of LURD herein issues this clarification on events that led to the death of Sam ‘Mosquito’ Bockarie.
“LURD’s battle-hardened fighting forces have been in control of Ganta and its environs and are presently galvanizing and bolstering their war-fighting resources to extend their forward positions to the frontier of the Ivory Coast to inevitably get good riddance of Taylor’s mercenaries presently operating and causing havoc in the sister country.
“Since the capture of Ganta, Taylor’s RUF/NPFL mercenaries have been locked up behind our forward positions behind the Klay Po River axis relative to its proximity to our final assault point- Monrovia.
“Accordingly, fugitive Mosquito took the bait in compliance with Taylor’s plan in implementing Taylor’s express intents. Mosquito made a fatal tactical error in engaging our fighting forces in Ganta in a fierce three-pronged attack battle.
“In the process, Mosquito was mortally wounded and unfortunately died while en route to hospital.
“Taylor’s purpose and intent were to eliminate Mosquito and he has achieved his objective, knowingly fully well that a dead Mosquito cannot bite nor implicate him in any future UN inquiry that would lead to his prosecution.”
MADAM BOCKARIE DENIES SON’S CORPSE
(Ticha Lemp Lemp in Concord Times 14th May, 2004)
Madam Bockarie has said that the corpse which the Liberian government has claimed to be Mosquito’s could not be her son’s.
The frail-looking mother was invited to the Samuel Stryker Funeral home in Sinkor, Monrovia, where the alleged remains of her son was laid awaiting identification. But mother Bockarie emphatically said that the over-swollen corpse was not her dear son Sahr (not Sam) Bockarie.
“Please don’t kill my son before his time. Sahr has a long way to go in this life, and he’s all I’ve got,” she said weeping.
Also present at the funeral parlor was Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Liberia, Mr Patrick James Foya, who also could not confirm that the body belonged to Mosquito. However, he promised to contact his home government for advice.
General Sam Bockarie was allegedly killed less than a week after the Liberian government promised to cooperate with the Government of Sierra Leone and the Special Court for Sierra Leone in apprehending and deporting both he and fugitive AFRC leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, to Sierra Leone once they were spotted on Liberian soil.
Mosquito and Johhny Paul were amongst several persons, including RUF boss Foday Saybana Sankoh and Kamajor Chief Sam Hinga Norman, indicted by the UN-backed court for bearing the ‘greatest responsibility’ for heinous crimes committed against innocent civilians during Sierra Leone’s civil war.
MASKITA AND WIFE SPOTTED IN ZAMBIA
(Ticha Lemp Lemp in Concord Times 14th May 2004)
Supposedly dead Sam Maskita Bockarie is in Zambia with his wife Hawa where the couple plans to settle until the dust over them settles, we have authoritatively learned.
Our international investigations have confirmed that the corpse of Maskita, which is currently lying in our mortuary, is in fact the corpse of an Ivorian rebel who resembled the famous bush General.
The Ivorian rebel, whose name we have not yet been able to confirm, was amongst the company of men who accompanied Maskita from Ivory Coast to Liberia, reportedly with over five trucks full of ammunition that the General had planned to sell to President Charles Taylor.
Sources say Maskita and his men were given a 72-hour ultimatum to leave Ivory Coast when the Ivorian rebels decided he was getting too popular and “too big for his shoes.”
On arrival in Liberia, our source disclosed that Maskita had disappeared, leaving his men at the mercy of the Liberian government.
“Most of these men have been hunted down by the ATU (Anti-Terrorist Unit) in a desperate attempt to locate the whereabouts of Maskita,” our source in Liberia said.
Our source denied any shootout between Taylor’s forces and Maskita’s leading to the gunning down of the General.
“That was one of Taylor’s many games. It never happened,” he said.
Meanwhile, the so-called corpse of Maskita has undergone post-mortem examination and is awaiting a forensic operation to determine its authenticity.
NOTE: This work of fiction was inspired by actual events but is otherwise the product of the writer’s imagination.
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