According to reliable sources, Madam Jeneba Kabba who is an orphan formerly of Seydu village in the Nimikore Chiefdom in the Kono District in the Eastern Region of Sierra Leone is now on the run fearing for the safety of her dear life after she was declared wanted by women of the dreaded Bondo Secret Society because she refused to be initiated as a Sowe of the influential Bondo secret society and succeed her dead grandmother, Yaa Na Soko, as the head initiator of the society.
It is common knowledge that among other barbaric practices, the women of the Bondo Society normally circumcise young women and girls by circumcising their clitoris, as they put it, “cleanse the women and reduce their sexual desires.”
Jeneba is also accused of being engaged in the campaign against the female genital mutilation that the Bondo Society women practice on young girls and women.
According to a female relative of Jeneba Kabba who does not want us to state her name for fear of reprisals, Jeneba Kabba’s troubles started around August 2023 when her grandmother who was the Sowe of the Bondo secret society died. There was a need to initiate another woman, mostly a daughter or granddaughter to succeed the deceased Sowe.
She further explained that as the only granddaughter to her late grandmother, Jeneba was automatically expected to be initiated as the next Sowe.
The woman disclosed that since Jeneba was forcefully initiated into the Bondo Society, she had been complaining of vaginal and stomach pains. She has refused to have anything to do with the Bondo Society, noting that Jeneba was very unhappy that she was chosen to succeed her grandmother, a decision she refused to accept which, according to tradition, is an abomination that can lead to the death of Jeneba.
When this Reporter requested for her to lead him to Madam Jeneba Kabba for an interview, she stated that she did not know her whereabouts after she was tortured by the Bondo society which led to her having a stillbirth which forced her to flee the village for her life, she was declared wanted by the Bondo secret society in late August 2023 she disappeared from the community and has neither been seen nor heard from since.
She also disclosed that she has information that unidentified people continue to visit Jeneba’s house in the late night hours, making threatening remarks that they will kill her the day they see her, due to persistent threats from society members her husband, and her adopted child where not spared as they where threatened by the society they also fled to an unknown destination to save their lives.
She concluded that the Bondo secret society women have a very organized network all over the country and that they have all been alerted about the abomination committed by Jeneba against the society and they will not rest until they find her and kill her to cleanse the society of the abomination.
When this Reporter attempted to get an interview with the Bondo Society women, he was informed that nobody would talk to him and that if he continued to pursue the matter, he would not be happy with what would befall him.
