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Court of Appeal Judges, Hon. Justice Ivan Sesay, presiding, Hon. Justice Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens, and Hon. Justice Adrian Fisher have ordered the former Minister of Finance, Samura Kamara to pay about the sum of USD 70,000.00 to the state.
This came after the court upheld the investigative decision of the country’s Commission of Inquiry (COI), which was tasked with scrutinizing the activities of past government officials.
The COI was established in 2018 by President Julius Maada Bio to investigate allegations of corruption and mismanagement under the previous All People’s Congress (APC) administration, which ruled Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2018. The COI’s findings implicated several high-level officials, including Samura Kamara.
After the government released a White Paper summarizing the COI’s findings, several former officials, including Kamara, challenged the report in court.
In the case of Kamara, the Court of Appeal also upheld the COI’s finding that former Finance Minister abused his office in relation to the Sierra Rutile Company, a mining company with significant assets in Sierra Leone. The Court ordered Kamara to pay about seventy thousand dollars and to bear the cost of Le250 million (old Leones).
The Court also directed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to investigate the former Minister concerning the Sierra Rutile Company dealings.
Representing the Appellants were Lawyers Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Africanus Sorie Sesay, and Brima Koroma, while Abigail Suwu Kendor and two other counsels represented the State.
It’s a good thing,but I hope this will set the nation to successive government to accountability moving forward.
Bio your own time will end remember a proverbs which says what goes around will surely comes around
D true shall prevail 🌚
Obviously my brother!
I hope this thing will continue, and I hope that money will be utilized well.
Bio is continuing to dig his grave!
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Because the government has lark of money to pay civil servant that’s why they are running against Samura and Earnest for them to able pay civil servant everyone knows that Samura kamara has served this country for over twenty five years without any mismanagement or abuse of office
Shame to the poupa SLPP government
Instead for to beg Earnest and Samura to fund them to pay civil servant
What is the meaning of this?
Even this current administration will not be left out when the time comes
Wow
I’m impressed,it took a long period on this matter between the state and the. defendants
Indeed it’s a very good president
People should always get this in mind that, the COI is going to be a continuous process which means it’s not only meant for only the past government officials. If another government gets into power,they too can continue the same thing if only the present government is found guilty of those offences
i will be only happy if maada bio is using that country money well i did not like to see you go through the same thing but i gat love for samura and i know if he rules he will not disturb you guy the way did to him
This would have been a very good Presedence for the development of the nation. But when it comes to the S LPP party, they would begin to give excuses and make it TRIBAL.
Besides, there were some SLPP members working within the APC regime. Why were they excluded in the COI investigation? This is a TRIBALLY motivated COI.
Maada Bio would have been praised,if the COI were approved by the parliament. Furthermore, Maada Bio would have involved all the political parties in forming the COI or at least got their approval, if indeed he is not making a Witch-Hunt. As far as the COI was concerned , Maada Bio formed it to get an opportunity to arrest, kill, intimidate the former rulling party, the APC. . Maada Bio has forgotten to understand that after the APC party, comes the SLPP. These are the two political parties exchanging leadership in this country.
Maada Bio has completely destroyed the SLPP party by killing many people, by intimidatingly the opposition party and by devising evil means to suppress the opposition party by forming a FAKE coup plot in which he tries to implicate the strong members of the opposition party.
Maada Bio cannot rule for ever. He has to leave power and be an ordinary person in this country.
Maada Bio is a KILLER president, who has destroyed himself and his political party. Maada Bio, as a killer will have to face the ICC Prosecutor for Crimes against Humanity. Maada Bio does not love the country. He is a criminal, a lier a Thief and a non democratic leader.