{"id":516,"date":"2020-01-06T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/sierra-leone\/?p=516"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:44:17","slug":"reverend-dr-shyllon-retired-senior-police-officer-released-from-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/community\/reverend-dr-shyllon-retired-senior-police-officer-released-from-detention","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Dr. Shyllon \u2013 retired senior police officer released from detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The retired ADC of former president Ernest Bai Koroma \u2013 Reverend Dr. Reuben Shyllon, has this afternoon been released from detention by the police. His two daughters were released yesterday without charge. (Photo above: Reverend Shyllon \u2013 right, his wife \u2013 centre, on his release this afternoon, with Dr Sylvia Blyden on the left).<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made yesterday, after a dispute in Hamilton, Freetown, involving the bodyguard of the SLPP parliamentary aspirant- Josephine Jackson of constituency 110 and Reverend Shyllon, degenerated into violence \u2013 with gunshots fired by the bodyguard. No one was injured or killed.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, 1pm Sunday January 5th 2020, Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (OOR) said: \u201cThank God for the release of Reverend Dr. Reuben Shyllon, the retired senior Police Officer, former ADC to Former President Koroma and former Head of the CDIID at Police Headquarters. He is now on his way home to his house at Hamilton Village.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to all who made the release possible. Special thanks to UK-based Journalist \u2013 Mr. Abdul Rashid Thomas of the SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH for the awareness raising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good reverend will report again to the C.I.D. tomorrow morning for further investigations.<br \/>\nHe has however been released on his own cognizance without any request for him to have someone sign for Bail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is good and a big boost to our democratic credentials that he can be released on his own cognizance. I am driving him home now. Thanks again to all.\u201d (Photo: Reverend Shyllon on his release this afternoon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retired ADC of former president Ernest Bai Koroma \u2013 Reverend Dr. Reuben Shyllon, has this afternoon been released from detention by the police. His two daughters were released yesterday without charge. (Photo above: Reverend Shyllon \u2013 right, his wife \u2013 centre, on his release this afternoon, with Dr Sylvia Blyden on the left). 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