By Politico staff writer
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), has in a press statement announced the indictment of the legal officer and Regional Manager attached to the office of Sierra Leone’s Ombudsman.
According to the statement, the anti-graft agency on the 6th May, 2021, filed an indictment against the Legal Officer Idrissa Alimamy Patience Kargbo on Six (6) counts of corruption offences; Two (2) counts bordering on Soliciting an Advantage, contrary to Section 28 (2) (a), and Four (4) counts of Accepting an Advantage, contrary to Section 28 (2) (a), of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008 as amended by the Anti-Corruption Act No.9 of 2019.
The statement alleged that the indictee on various dates between 1st April 2019 and 31st January 2020, in Port Loko City, in the North-West Region of Sierra Leone, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, solicited and accepted an advantage in the total sum of Le5, 150,000 (Five Million, One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Leones), from two complainants, ostensibly as payment for his upkeep and transportation in assisting them to recover their six months backlog salary.
Mr. Kargbo is expected to make his first appearance in the High Court of Sierra Leone in Makeni, northern Sierra Leone on 20th May, 2021.
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