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By Francis H. Murray Sierra Leone has moved ten places upwards in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI), according to the latest [2019] report. This is the most drastic improvement the country has ever made in the last five years, indicating that the Bio administration’s clampdown on corruption maybe working.

Anti-Corruption Commission chief in Makeni has called on the Inter Religious Council gathering to include anti-corruption messages in their sermons when he recently addressed torchbearers at the Wesleyan Regional Headquarters in Makeni. Patrick Sandi noted that it was very important for them to take a strong position and stance in the fight against corruption by preaching

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

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Anti-Corruption Commission Cathedral House 3, Gloucester Street Freetown Sierra Leone, West Africa Ref: ACC/PR/21/034 (...)

As the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) updated the public that the High Court of Sierra Leone presided over by Hon. Justice A.T. Ganda on 25 February convicted Bockarie Sheku Mattia, a supervisor on contract with Statistics Sierra Leone’s Bo office on one count of soliciting an advantage of one hundred thousand leones, which is less than ten US dollars, Dr. Denis Bright has told Beyond Borders that corruption does not only belong to yesterday. The convicted Mattia was ordered to pay a fine o...

First Lady at centre of graft allegations rocking Sierra Leone presidency Issued on: 11/03/2021 - 10:37 Julius Maada Bio and his wife Fatima on election day, Freetown, 31 March 2018. © AFP - Issouf Sanogo 3 min Pressure is mounting on Sierra Leone’s President, Julius Maada Bio, following a series of corruption allegations in the media against the First Lady and a top government minister, undermining the president’s own vow to...

 22 December 2020 at 19:17 |  PV staff The recently published audit reports by the Auditor General of Sierra Leone, Lara Taylor-Pearce, have created a storm of controversy among Sierra Leoneans in and out of the country. The battlegrounds are mostly on social media (Facebook, Whatsapp and others). Many Sierra Leoneans applauded the Auditor General for what they considered a job well done, while others condemned her as having produced shoddy and unprofessional work. They pointed to the fac...