By Politico Staff writer
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on the 20th May 2021 announced the indictment of Prince Amara who is a lab assistant at the United Brethren –in-Christ Hospital (UBC) at Mattru Jong in the Bonthe District.
He was indicted on two counts of corruption offences bordering on the misappropriation of public property “contrary to Section 36(1) and Conspiracy to Commit a Corruption Offence contrary to Section 128(1) of the Anti-Corruption Act No.12 of 2008, as amended by the Anti-Corruption Act No.9 of 2019”.
The ACC statement said Amara was alleged to have between 1st October to the 31st October 2018 misappropriated public property and also conspired with unknown persons to misappropriate public property which included “twenty-two packets of clotrimazole syrup containing one hundred and fifty bottles, meant for Free Health Care Initiative”
The statement added that Section 36(1) of the ACC Act states that
“a person who misappropriates public revenue, funds or property commits an offence and section 128(1) states that any attempt or conspiracy to commit a corruption case offence or aiding, abetting, counseling, commanding or procuring the commission of a corruption offence shall be punishable as if the offence had been completed and any rules of evidence which apply with respect to proof of any such offence shall apply in like manner to the proof of conspiracy to such offence, ”.
The indictee will appear in the High Court of Sierra Leone in Bo on the 10th June 2021.
The Commission went on to reassure Sierra Leoneans of its commitment and determination to limit corruption in all spheres in the country, especially the Free Health Care programme that provides medical facility for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five.
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