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A review of corruption in Sierra Leone
15 May 2021 at 20:47 |
Commentary
Sierra Leoneâs Corruption: A Strategic Review of Corruption under the SLPP vs the Unchecked corruption in the Past (APC) administration
By Edie P Vandy, on behalf of the SLPPNA Communications Committee
Sierra Leoneâs development efforts have been stifled because of corruption, until now with real progress matched by political commitment made by President Bio upon assumption of office on 12 May 2018.
The 18 monthsâ stewardship of the current administration has done much more in tackling corruption than the 11 years (2007-2018) management of the past APC government led by former President Koroma, which saw corruption thrive despite granting of independent prosecutorial powers in 2008 to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
President Ernest Bai Koroma
Appeal Court Judges presiding over findings and recommendations into the Commissions of Inquiry have ordered former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, 2018 APC Presidential Flagbearer Dr. Samura Kamara, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, and other Appellants to file and serve their written synopsis within twenty-one days for oral arguments and submissions on the 23rd June 2021.
The order was delivered by way of directive through Appellants’ legal counsels including Lawyer Ady Macauley representing Appellants Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara and Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara, and Lawyer Africanus Sorie Sesay together with Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara and Ady Macauley representing former President Koroma as Appellant.
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2021:
Discourse and controversy surrounding the functions and independence of the Office of the Auditor-General of Sierra Leone are not new.
(Photo above: Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, former Attorney General of Sierra Leone).
As Attorney-General in 2016, our offices issued a Legal Opinion on the subject matter: that the Auditor-General’s Office is a creature of the Constitution, and any other law inconsistent with that mandate under the Constitution is ultra vires.
The Fiscal Management Control Act (“FMCA”) was drafted and prepared during my tenure, and it did not amend nor intended to affect the provisions relative to the Audit Service.
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