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Former Attorney General Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK) has criticised the 2015 removal of Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana, saying he personally disagreed with the decision and believed the Supreme Court failed to deliver justice.
Kamara, now an All People’s Congress flagbearer aspirant, made the comments during an interview on AYV’s State of the Nation programme. He clarified he was not Attorney General at the time of Sam-Sumana’s removal by former President Ernest Bai Koroma but was serving as Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission.
“Personally, I don’t think I liked it, and I thought that the judges did not do justice to that decision,” Kamara said, according to the interview.
Sam-Sumana was removed from office in 2015 after he was accused by the APC of abandoning his party and seeking to run as an independent candidate in that year’s presidential election. The Supreme Court upheld his removal, ruling that he had forfeited his position by resigning from the party .
In 2017, the ECOWAS Court ruled that Sam-Sumana’s removal violated his rights and ordered Sierra Leone to pay his outstanding salary and benefits. The Government of Sierra Leone, with Kamara serving as Attorney General at that time, rejected the ECOWAS ruling, maintaining that the regional court lacked jurisdiction after the matter had already been determined by the Supreme Court.
Kamara said that had he been president, he would have approached the matter differently.
Sam-Sumana has consistently maintained that his removal was unconstitutional. In a press briefing, he stated, “I didn’t sue the APC; I sued the Government of Sierra Leone because when the Constitution is violated, it is the nation that suffers, not just an individual”.
Kamara’s comments could reignite debate within the APC over one of the most controversial episodes of the Ernest Bai Koroma administration, particularly as the party prepares for its next leadership contest and the 2028 presidential election.
