In this episode, we analyze the explosive allegations by Edwina Hawa Jamiru, the 21-year-old girlfriend of High Court Justice Momoh Jah Stevens, who accuses him of blocking her court appearance, abandoning their child, and misusing the Domestic Violence Act against her.
We unpack the case with critical analysis, Africa-wide comparisons, and a forward-looking approach:
• What does this mean for Sierra Leone’s judiciary?
• How do other African countries handle similar scandals?
• Can digital activism force accountability where courts fall short?
This is more than a lovers’ quarrel—it’s a continental lesson on power, gender, and justice in Africa.
๐ Stay tuned till the end for a call to action to African leaders—and to you, the people, who hold the real gavel of accountability.
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Keywords: Sierra Leone judiciary scandal, Justice Momoh Jah Stevens, Edwina Hawa Jamiru, domestic violence in Africa, gender justice, judicial misconduct, Africa politics, Bold African Voice
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Tagline: “When justice becomes personal, the people must make it public.”
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#BoldAfricanVoice #SierraLeone #JusticeStevens #EdwinaJamiru #DomesticViolence #GenderJustice #AfricaPolitics #JudicialReform
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In this explosive episode of BAV Inside Salone, host Isatu Kamara-Kargbo investigates the unfolding scandal at Fourah Bay College, where Justice Momoh Jah-Stevens faces serious allegations of sexual harassment and corruption made by student Edwina Jamiru.
We unpack how the University of Sierra Leone is handling the investigation, analyze the deeper implications for academic integrity, gender rights, and judicial ethics in Sierra Leone, and draw powerful comparisons with similar crises across Africa—from Ghana’s Sex for Grades exposรฉ to South Africa’s university reform movement.
Join The Bold African Voice (BAV) as we deliver critical analysis, Africa-wide perspective, and a forward-looking approach—examining how institutions can rebuild public trust and protect the powerless.
Key discussion points:
• The Fourah Bay College press statement and the internal probe.
• The balance between institutional reputation and victim protection.
• The role of social media and public pressure in accountability.
• Lessons from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.
• The road ahead for justice, transparency, and reform in African academia.
๐ข Presented by: Isatu Kamara-Kargbo
๐️ Channel: The Bold African Voice (BAV)
๐ฅ Segment: Inside Salone – Investigating Sierra Leone’s Stories with a Pan-African Lens
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๐ฌ Tagline: “Where Courage Meets Truth – The Bold African Voice.”
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๐ KEYWORDS
Fourah Bay College | Justice Momoh Jah-Stevens | Edwina Jamiru | University of Sierra Leone | sexual harassment in universities | Sierra Leone judiciary | FBC investigation | academic misconduct Africa | gender justice Africa | African universities accountability | student rights Sierra Leone | Inside Salone BAV | Isatu Kamara-Kargbo | The Bold African Voice
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#TheBoldAfricanVoice #BAVInsideSalone #JusticeMomohJahStevens #FourahBayCollege #SierraLeoneNews #GenderJustice #AcademicIntegrity #UniversityAccountability #AfricaNews #CorruptionInAfrica #InsideSalone #IsatuKamaraKargbo #BAVReports #BoldVoiceForAfrica
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Comment: Lielalay News: CULLED
*WHEN JUSTICE MOMOH JAH STEVENS WAS LIVING RECKLESSLY AND FEELING INVINCIBLE, WE WERE NOT HEARING ALL THIS NOISE*
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When the fever of his extramarital affairs caught up with him and struck him down, suddenly this man who wore his arrogance like a scarf, this man who conducted a witch hunt against his child’s mother, his side lover, now he catches cold and begins to tremble like a drenched cat. Now he tries to compensate the lady and begins to take care of his baby. What a foolish boy.
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Good afternoon , everyone. From what we have witnessed and heard regarding Lady Edwina’s case, it appears that many SLPP supporters were backing this profoundly foolish Justice Momoh Jah Stevens in his power play battle against the mother of his child from an affair.
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When Momoh Jah Stevens was playing the role of the reformed man to please his wife after being caught, in Lady Edwina’s previous videos, the lady told the public that when Justice Momoh Jah Stevens was living recklessly and engaging intimately with her until she became pregnant, he was enjoying the relationship thoroughly and had no complaints. But when the time came to care for the baby, the brother ran away.
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Obviously, the lady knew that she had erred when she embarrassed Momoh Jah Stevens on social media. That is why she made a secret video pleading with this same Justice Momoh Jah Stevens, saying she would be the number two wife in the shadows and would always respect the legitimate wife. He should have accepted the lady’s apology quietly.
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Instead of accepting this lady’s quiet apology, this foolish man deliberately released the lady’s apology video on social media to tarnish her name. He did not know that it was a trap the lady had set for him, because we heard that the same lady had already gone to do a quiet DNA test and already knew that Justice Momoh was indeed the biological father.
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Justice “I Live Recklessly” Momoh made the biggest mistake of his life when he tried to destroy the lady’s good name on social media. He thought that his child’s mother, his side lover, would feel the pressure and back off.
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By doing so, he thought he would silence the lady. Even his rowdy boys, the SLPP supporters, went so far as to embarrass and ask the side lover to go do a DNA test to know if this foolish Justice Momoh Jah Stevens was the biological father. We had already heard that this was exactly what the lady wanted: to disgrace the foolish man in public.
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When the positive DNA test result came out, all those cockroaches who had been supporting this reckless justice disappeared and left him to fight his own reckless battle.
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Some men say the side lover went too far to disgrace this justice, but if it were their own daughter being treated this way, some men would have drawn machetes to settle the matter.
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We are concerned for this lady’s mental wellbeing. It appears that nobody is looking to help the lady because anywhere she tries to go for help, this reckless Justice Momoh Jah Stevens has friends who are always trying to shut this lady down.
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We all know that our Sierra Leone judiciary is rotten and corrupt. If they do not take time, this lady must begin to dismantle them, because as the Chinese proverb teaches us, a thousand miles starts with a single step. This is how other people must go after our corrupt judiciary.
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This Lady Edwina’s story has given much wisdom and counsel to all those brokenhearted side lovers: if a man fathers a child with you and refuses to take care of your child, forget about the courts and police complaints. Use social media to bring them down to their knees.
HANDS OFF OUR GIRLS AND WOMEN WHO YOU SAY ARE COPYING THE LONDON FIRST LADY
@lielaylaynews.com *THE RECKONING OF JUSTICE: When Power Meets Its Match in a Mother’s Courage*
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An Editorial
There exists, in the shadowed corridors of power, a particular species of man who believes himself untouchable. He drapes himself in the robes of authority, speaks in the measured tones of jurisprudence, and moves through society with the confidence of one who has never known consequence. Justice Momoh Jah Stevens was such a man. Until he wasn’t.
Picture, if you will, the scene: A man of the law, sworn to uphold truth and fairness, living a double life with the casualness of one changing shirts. In the intoxicating darkness of secrecy, he pulled down his trousers not just literally, but metaphorically, shedding every shred of dignity that his position demanded. He enjoyed his pleasures. He took what he wanted. And when the inevitable fruit of his indiscretion began to grow in Lady Edwina’s womb, this champion of justice did what cowards have done since time immemorial: he ran.
But here is where our story transforms from tragedy into testament.
Lady Edwina did not wither. She did not disappear into the convenient silence that men like Stevens depend upon. Instead, she did something revolutionary in a nation where the judiciary has become a fortress of corruption, where justice is a commodity purchased by the powerful and denied to the poor: she became her own advocate, her own army, her own avenging angel.
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When Stevens thought he could humiliate her into submission by releasing her private apology on social media, when he believed his network of influence could crush her spirit, when his supporters descended upon her like vultures demanding DNA tests to question her truth, she was already three steps ahead. She had the evidence. She had the proof. She had the DNA results that would transform his arrogance into ash.
Can you see it? Can you feel the moment when that positive DNA test emerged into the light? It was not merely paper and science. It was a mirror held up to the face of hypocrisy. It was the sound of a gavel coming down, not in Stevens’ courtroom, but in the court of public opinion, where no amount of legal maneuvering could save him.
Those cockroaches who had scurried alongside him in the daylight of his power vanished the moment darkness fell. The SLPP supporters who had cheered his cruelty suddenly remembered urgent appointments elsewhere. The “respectable” friends who had helped him silence this woman discovered, too late, that they had backed the wrong horse in a race that the entire nation was watching.
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But this story is larger than one foolish justice and one courageous woman. It is a parable for our time, a roadmap for revolution.
How many Lady Edwinas walk among us? How many women carry the weight of abandoned children and broken promises while the men who fathered those children sit in positions of honor, their reputations intact, their consciences apparently untroubled? How many times have we watched the powerful exploit the powerless, confident that the systems designed to protect us have been thoroughly corrupted to protect them instead?
Our judiciary, that sacred institution meant to be the last refuge of the oppressed, has become a marketplace where verdicts are sold to the highest bidder. We know this. We whisper about it in our homes. We shake our heads and shrug our shoulders, as if corruption were weather, something to be endured but never changed.
Lady Edwina has shown us another way.
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When the courts fail you, when the police ignore you, when every door closes because the man who wronged you has friends in high places, there remains one courtroom that cannot be bought: the court of public opinion, amplified by the democratizing power of social media. This is not mob justice. This is accountability when all other avenues of accountability have been deliberately destroyed.
The Chinese proverb whispers its wisdom across centuries: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lady Edwina has taken that step. Her courage has illuminated a path that others must now follow.
But let us be clear about what is at stake. This woman stands alone, her mental wellbeing threatened, her support systems systematically dismantled by a man who uses his connections as weapons. Where are we in this moment? Are we the silent witnesses who watch injustice and do nothing? Are we the cockroaches who scatter when the light gets too bright?
Or are we the ones who stand in solidarity, who refuse to let another woman be crushed by the machinery of corrupt power?
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To every young woman who has been used and discarded, to every mother who has been abandoned to raise a child alone while the father lives comfortably in respectability, to every person who has ever felt the weight of a system designed to protect the powerful at the expense of the powerless: take note. Document everything. Speak your truth loudly. The walls that seemed impenetrable can crumble when exposed to sustained public scrutiny.
To Justice Momoh Jah Stevens and every man like him: your days of consequence-free exploitation are ending. The women you thought you could silence are finding their voices. The systems you thought you controlled are being exposed. The arrogance that made you feel invincible will be the very thing that ensures your fall.
And to our broken, corrupted judiciary: Lady Edwina is coming for you. Not with lawyers you can bribe or judges you can influence, but with something far more powerful—the truth, spoken plainly, witnessed publicly, impossible to ignore.
This is how revolutions begin. Not with armies or manifestos, but with one person refusing to be silent, one story that becomes a thousand stories, one act of courage that inspires a movement.
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HANDS OFF OUR GIRLS AND WOMEN.
The fever that caught Justice Stevens is spreading. Let it burn through every corridor of power where men have behaved badly and gotten away with it. Let it consume every institution that has protected predators instead of victims. Let it transform our nation from one where justice is a cruel joke into one where accountability is guaranteed, not by corrupt courts, but by an awakened people who refuse to look away.
Lady Edwina did not set out to be a revolutionary. She simply wanted a man to take care of his child. But in that simple demand, in her refusal to be silenced, she has lit a fire that may yet burn down the rotten structures that have oppressed us all.
The question now is not whether we support her. The question is whether we have the courage to follow where she has led.
The answer will define us.
@lielaylaynews.com
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My comments in another post
๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ -สทแตแตแตโฟ แตแถ แตแถ สณโฑแถแตโฟ โฟแตแตโฑแตโฟหข สทแตสณหกแตสทโฑแตแต. She [EDWINA], constantly said he did "BAD THINGS" TO HER. But she is too ashamed to state the "BAD THINGS" pondering all in deep pain, and angry and dissapointed.
Read between the lines: "BAD THINGS"! He is over 55 strong and she 18 (or 15) now 21 and small. "BAD THINGS"! Is this one of those cases of " JUS GI AM BELE, E GO SIDOM SAFUL" Syndrum? She could not fight him off physically, and too ashamed now to spell out the "BAD THINGS", hence her bitterness, anger following the outcome, risk to her education and responsibility to her child which he denied initially but confirmrd by the DNA RESULT- 99.999%. What a shame!
Was it wise for the judge to take her to Court for DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (a crminal offence) in the first place? She got vexed at his leaking the personal audio just between the two of them apologisung for her wrongs and asking for his forgiveness as in any relationship break down: one party can beg the other even if he/she knows the wrong was on the other foot. But he leaked the audio on Social media: was that a reasonable and wise action by a well educated, senior judge and a married man with three (now4) children? Was it wise to allegedly influenced her being prevented from attending the hearing in Court on the call of the case, resulting in the presiding Judge issuing a BENCH WARRENT OF ARREST, GOT ARRESTED AND LOCKED UP AT THE POLICE CELL? Bitterly crying , begging and mocked, disgraced and, he judge Stevens was at the police retorting to her pleas in tears! Yet you want to call her mental *KRAS in our palance)!
I just wish and hooe a few good and brave Lawyers, will come to her aid and assist her PRO BONO! Even the Legal Aid Board and the FEMALE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION -
L.A.W.YE.R.S. shoud have stepped in by now. Even the Minister of Gender abd Childrens Affairs is neglecting her responsibility not leaving out the Minister of Justice in this sordid scandal and messy affair! But she believe in God, as a Christian, her faith will surely uphold her.
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Forcibly Testing Children for DNA in Paternity Disputes - A Human Rights Concern
On 6 October 2025, the High Court of Sierra Leone issued an order in the case of Mohamed Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens v. Edwina Hawa Jamiru (Misc. App. 233/25; 2025 S. No. 17), directing that a DNA test be conducted on a six-month-old child to determine paternity. The ruling, delivered by Justice Augustine K. Musa, (in the photo below) authorises samples to be collected from the child and the defendant “voluntarily or by force” to confirm whether the plaintiff, a sitting Court of Appeal judge, is the biological father. While the court’s intent to clarify parentage and secure the child’s rights is understandable, the inclusion of “by force” raises serious ethical and human rights concerns. Under both international law and Sierra Leone’s legal tradition, forcibly testing a child for DNA should remain an absolute last resort.
The High Court’s order requires DNA testing by reputable local and foreign laboratories, supervised by the Master and Registrar of the High Court. Representatives from the Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs and the Human Rights Commission are permitted to observe the process. The testing aims to resolve whether Justice Stevens is the father of a child born in April 2025, which could determine the child’s entitlement to maintenance, inheritance, and identity. Yet the directive that samples be taken “voluntarily or by force” implies that if the defendant, Ms Jamiru, resists, the court may enforce compliance through state authority. While the test itself, a cheek swab, is physically harmless, the idea of forced collection raises questions about bodily autonomy, dignity, and the emotional security of both mother and child.
Sierra Leone is a signatory to several human rights treaties, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC). These instruments establish that the best interests of the child must guide all judicial actions. Determining paternity can indeed serve a child’s best interests by clarifying identity and securing support. However, coercive enforcement risks undermining those same interests by creating distress and damaging family bonds. The child’s right to privacy under CRC Article 16 and ICCPR Article 17, and protection from inhuman or degrading treatment under ICCPR Article 7 and ACRWC Article 16, must be considered carefully. Even minimal physical compulsion can become psychologically harmful when imposed through authority.
International law demands proportionality and necessity when a state interferes with personal rights. Any intrusion on bodily integrity must be justified by a compelling public aim and carried out in the least intrusive way possible. Justice Musa’s order includes safeguards, court supervision, clear laboratory protocols, and oversight by neutral bodies, but the express authorisation of force goes beyond what most human rights frameworks consider proportionate. Less coercive options should be exhausted before enforcement is contemplated.
Beyond legality, there are cultural and ethical dimensions specific to Sierra Leone. Paternity disputes are deeply personal and often carry social stigma. In many communities, public disclosure of such cases can lead to ostracism or harm to family reputation. Forcing a DNA test could inflame community tensions or stigmatise the child. The mother’s resistance may reflect distrust of the process or fear of social exposure rather than an intent to obstruct justice. The term “force” in the order therefore needs careful interpretation. If it refers to procedural enforcement, such as sanctions or supervised collection under judicial authority, it may be defensible. But any physical coercion would violate the child’s dignity and the mother’s autonomy.
There are alternatives that respect both legal objectives and human rights. Mediation or counselling could help address the mother’s concerns and achieve voluntary consent. The court could also apply adverse inferences, as in the United Kingdom’s Family Law Act 1986, where refusal to test allows judges to draw conclusions without coercion. Legal presumptions of paternity, if the alleged father has provided care or acknowledgment, can also resolve disputes without invasive testing. These approaches uphold the principle of minimal interference under ICCPR Article 17 while maintaining focus on the child’s welfare.
The High Court’s intention, to determine truth and secure a child’s legal rights, is legitimate. But the power to compel DNA testing must be exercised with restraint. Coercion risks eroding public trust in the judiciary and undermines Sierra Leone’s commitment to child-centred justice. The court should clarify that “force” refers only to procedural enforcement, never physical compulsion, and ensure that independent observers actively monitor for potential harm. This case stands as a reminder that legal certainty should not come at the expense of human dignity. Upholding children’s rights requires not only scientific truth but compassion, sensitivity, and respect for the family’s emotional and cultural context. @followers #sierraleonenews #highlightseveryonefollowers
