Operation Find: • Missing FCC Lowbed Vehicle • Six Allegedly Stolen Vehicles from Canada • Le300 Million from NRA’s ASYCUDA Department
He has always been the man for the big investigative cases, but he has been away from the limelight for a considerable while. At some point, he reportedly fell out with the current government, allegedly following his refusal to take up inquiries into a couple of “egregious” corruption cases from the controversial GTT Report in 2020, despite a mouth-watering offer.
Other reports claimed the ace detective was battling a strange skin disease, which prevented him from appearing in public and confined him to his remote residence somewhere undisclosed on the outskirts of the capital city. There was no iVerify platform at the time to verify those reports.
Now, our usual very unreliable (but sometimes very credible) sources say the Scotland Yard-trained detective is back for real, having just signed a lucrative tripartite contract with the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), and the Freetown City Council (FCC).
According to our source, Scorpion is expected to lead investigations into the missing FCC Lowbed vehicle; six impounded “luxurious vehicles” allegedly stolen from Canada into Sierra Leone; and the alleged misappropriation of NLe300 million (Le300 billion old Leones) at the ASYCUDA Department of the National Revenue Authority (NRA).
Our source said Detective Scorpion was approached last weekend by a high-powered delegation from the three institutions, not only to seek his wise counsel but also to persuade him to lead the investigations. One official reportedly shed tears in an attempt to inspire Scorpion to be patriotic and to see the matter as a call to national duty, despite the yummy pay.
“He listened to their pleas, showed some humanitarian emotions, and told them categorically that he would only get involved if they committed to providing the necessary support throughout the course of the investigations,” one highly placed source said.
Our source continued: “He gets easily excited by such cases, and you can sense that he’s itching to get back into the field and do what he loves, and does best.”
According to the Chief Administrator of the FCC, Rahman Tom Farma, the Council’s Lowbed vehicle has not been functional since he assumed office in 2023. From internal inquiries, he learned that the vehicle was first parked at the Kingtom dumping site and later at Blackhall Road due to difficulties in securing a suitable parking space. Subsequently, the Lowbed went missing.
The CA said he later discovered that the vehicle had been towed by the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA), to whose head he wrote seeking clarification. The vehicle was reportedly located at an undisclosed location, but with its body severed from the head. While the SLP has made several arrests to assist with investigations, the vehicle remains missing in many parts.
The SLP is also investigating the strange case of six impounded vehicles from Canada that allegedly vanished into thin air. The story, first broken by Global Times newspaper, reported that the vehicles, including a 2025 Land Cruiser Defender Jeep and five Lexus RX 350 SUVs, disappeared from TOCU Headquarters at Hastings, where they were parked for safekeeping. Although the SLP claims the vehicles are now in their custody, details regarding the alleged thieves and ownership remain unclear.
On the third case, the ACC is investigating a major financial scandal involving the alleged misappropriation of about Le300 billion old Leones (NLe300 million) at the ASYCUDA unit of the NRA. Three senior officials have been arrested and detained, with investigations pointing to a sophisticated, long-running scheme involving unauthorised container clearances and collusion between NRA staff, commercial bank tellers, and other accomplices. The fraudulent activities are believed to have occurred over six years, from 2019 to 2025.
The scandal comes against the backdrop of wider revenue losses reported by the Ministry of Finance, including a 2025 national revenue shortfall partly linked to weak collection systems and fraud at the NRA.
Agent Black Scorpion, according to our sources, will now take over investigations into the aforementioned cases, for an undisclosed fee.
It could be recalled that Agent Scorpion has, over the years, enjoyed a warm relationship with the Government of Sierra Leone and the Police Department. He was actively involved in investigations into the Al-Jazeera timber corruption report on Sierra Leone in 2011. He headed the crack squad that unravelled the mystery behind the cocaine aeroplane (‘Peppeh Bird’) that force-landed at Lungi International Airport in 2007.
Detective Scorpion was the main man behind the capture of the dreaded late Salone warlord Foday Saybana Sankoh and the smart former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor, to international acclaim. He also excelled at the international inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He stunned the Los Angeles Police Department when he attributed legendary pop star Michael Jackson’s death to the “hand of witchcraft.”
He chased runaway prisoners from Pademba Road Prisons (though they eluded him, he was praised for the bold attempt). He led the independent probe into the alleged rape of six women during a political clash at the SLPP headquarters in Freetown in 2009; findings that remain safely locked away.
He abandoned a treasure hunt in Germany to lead the search for his country’s original Presidential Staff. He was also the first Sierra Leonean to publicly declare his HIV-positive status in 2008.
Detective Scorpion has been acclaimed by Time Magazine as one of the best Black detectives to emerge from Scotland Yard in the last three decades. At one point, he was widely considered the most upright man to fill the void left by Abdul Tejan Cole at the ACC in 2010.
Black Scorpion was also the first African to win Best Actor at the prestigious Academy Awards for his detective role in three blockbuster Sierra Leonean films in the early 2000s: ‘The Forklift’, ‘The Lotto Mafia’, and ‘The Medical Inferno’. The trilogy, rated as the most popular detective films of the 21st century, reportedly grossed over $5 billion globally. He won Best Actor for all three roles.
Freshly released from prison in Nigeria at the time, the Scotland Yard-trained detective said he felt “deeply fulfilled” and thanked the British Government, especially the British High Commission in Sierra Leone, for helping him achieve his dreams.
That was the first time (and hopefully not the last) African films and filmmakers were honoured at the Oscars.
Meanwhile, Black Scorpion is expected to hold a press conference next week to update the media and solicit their usual cooperation in this very important matter.
Note: This work of fiction was inspired by actual events but is otherwise the product of the writer’s imagination.
A Ticha Lemp Lemp Production, 2026.
