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Dr. Dennis Bright, NGC Chairman, exposes Anti-Corruption Commission : They only go after small fishes – Cocorioko

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 judgment or serve a five-year imprisonment term. According to the particulars of offence, between 1st and 3rd June, 2020, in Bo, Mattia, while on a verification exercise for the World Bank-supported Social Safety Net program, meant to alleviate poverty from the poorest of Sierra Leoneans, solicited the sum of One Hundred Thousand Leones from a potential beneficiary of the scheme. ....

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First Lady at centre of graft allegations rocking Sierra Leone presidency

First Lady at centre of graft allegations rocking Sierra Leone presidency
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Julius Maada Bio and his wife Fatima on election day, Freetown, 31 March 2018. © AFP - Issouf Sanogo
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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.
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Africanist Press claim that First Lady Fatima Bio spent more than $US780,000 of public funds for personal shopping, as well as travel and accommodation for foreign guests during the launch of her Hands Off Our Girls campaign in mid-2018. ....

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ACC commences action on the Auditor General's reports

 22 December 2020 at 19:17 |
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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 government was not in power.
However, in his usual cool manner, the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Francis Ben Kaifala (photo) has launched an investigation into the reports. See below the ACC press release to the effect: ....

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