By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman
Documents on the finances and expenditure details of the Office of the First Lady of Sierra Leone show clearly how Madam Fatima Jabbe Bio spent more than Le7.89 billion (over US$780,000) of public funds on personal shopping needs, and paying the travel costs and hotel accommodation expenses for foreign guests she invited to Sierra Leone to witness the launch of her flagship program, the
Hands Off Our Girls Campaign, launched in mid-December of 2018. Sierra Leone’s finance laws do not authorize the wife of a sitting president to directly receive or use any public funds to undertake a social activity or public campaign. In a video broadcast on Monday January 18, 2021, First Lady Fatima Bio admitted to receiving state funds, but she argued that the said public funds allocated to her organization were used for, what she described as, “the intended purpose.”
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman
Bank statements and other official documents on financial operations of the Government of Sierra Leone obtained by the
Africanist Press show precisely how the wife of the president of Sierra Leone, Madam Fatima Jabbe Bio received nearly Le30 billion Leones (almost US$3 million) of government funds in less than three years after the inauguration of her husband, Julius Maada Bio as president of the country in May 2018.
The records on the finances and expenditures of the First Lady’s Office, uncovered by the
Africanist Press, revealed that the organization’s operations received regular budgetary allocations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) and the Finance Ministry despite the fact that the organization is a non-state institution and, according to the country’s public finance regulations, is not authorized to use state funds in its activities.