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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 of Fifty Million Leones (Le: 50,000,000), within a period of one month, effective the date of the jud...

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 fight corruption in the West African country. Advertising Reports from the Africanist Pres...

 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 fact that the Auditor General included evidence of thieving from 2015 to 2017 when the current governme...