7-Suspended
1- on the run
Other heads to roll
Reports from the Criminal Investigation Department in Freetown have it that some workers of various Commercial Banks in the country are presently in detention, helping the police with investigation about stolen money amounting to billions of Leones of taxpayers’ money. The report furthered that Finance Manager at NRA, Abu Kamara, is presently on the run after allegedly bribed over One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars to aid his escape out of the country.
According to investigation, the big time corruption syndicate, report states, is a conspiracy theory aimed at depriving the state, with big names at NRA, Finance Ministry, Central Bank and some of the Commercial Banks have allegedly been involved in this syndicate, which started in 2019. There are growing concerns that the NRA’s top management is aware and that they have been playing games to have the issue covered under the carpet. Times SL Newspaper, being among the leading papers in the country, has got names of those already suspended which is seven number and will publish their names in our next edition.
The Anti-Corruption Commission Boss, Francis Ben Kaifala, report states, is allegedly aware of this development and that the Commission is presently putting strategies in place to protect and cover certain people as against those they might want to prosecute.
However, NRA Management in a Press Statement issued on Friday, 20th June 2023, acknowledged that there was indeed an investigation of missing tax payer’s money which started way back in 2019 and that the matter is currently being investigated at the Criminal Investigation Department
The release further stated that