SOLOMON KATTA AND OTHERS, YES. 50TH ANNIVERSARY.STILL THINKING As usual ACC prosecutors have been celebrating and speaking up again about their "commitment" to ending corruption by taking the corrupt guys off the streets and having them thrown into jail. We understand that, because Justice M A Paul has just locked up Katta and others after finding them guilty of corruption.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie One of the health officials indicted by the Sierra Leone Anti Corruption Commission for alleged misappropriation of donor funds who was convicted in September this year has been sent to prison to serve a 3-year jail term. Dr. Michael Mathew Amara was tried on 27 counts of misappropriation of donor funds from the GAVI Alliance international. He stood a
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The long awaited hearing in the high court of Sierra Leone has come to an end. A Freetown high court has sentenced this today 10th April 2014 five bankers and taxmen (including a husband and wife) to a mandatory jail term of between three and six years for corruption.
According to the sentence delivered by Justice MA Paul, a Nigerian Judge, they are also to each pay between US$ 10,000 and US$ 500,000 as fine and restitution to the government of Sierra Leone.
This is the longest ever sentence for corruption related activities in Sierra Leone and the second time a mandatory custodial sentence has ever been handed down in over five years in the country.