{{Military investigators in Sierra Leone have detained a senior opposition politician over an alleged attempted mutiny.}}<\/p>\n
A short statement read Monday evening on state broadcaster, SLBC, said the mayor of the southern city of Bo, Harold Tucker, was \u201cinvited\u201d to help in the investigations.<\/p>\n
Mr Tucker is a member of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) whose secretary-general, Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie, said their colleague was detained for \u201csubversive activities,” according to the Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n
Bo, an opposition stronghold, is the second largest city and second capital of the country.<\/p>\n
The mayor was reportedly arrested together with a renowned businessman in the city.<\/p>\n
The two become the first civilians to be linked to the incident that has shaken the West African country’s security apparatus.<\/p>\n
According to one media report on Monday, two more arrests were made earlier bringing to eleven the total number of military men now in custody.<\/p>\n
The daily Independent Observer newspaper added that an army captain was the highest ranking of the military suspects.<\/p>\n
Last week, government spokesman and Information Minister Alhaji Alpha Kanu said only one senior ranking official was in detention.<\/p>\n
President Ernest Bai Koroma Friday broke his silence on the matter promising a no-compromise stance in dealing with whoever was found guilty.<\/p>\n
He told a group of tribal leaders that there was no need for alarm as the government was in control.<\/p>\n
But, he added, there would be no compromise and anyone found guilty would be dealt with according to law, SLBC reported.<\/p>\n
The President also made a surprise visit Saturday to the military barracks in the northern city of Makeni where the mutiny was supposedly hatched earlier this month.<\/p>\n
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