Citizens Call For Investigation Of Hisham Mackie Over $13.5 Million TELTAC Deal

Report from the World Bank has indicated that Teltac Africa Ltd, owes the government and people of Sierra Leone $13,578,934.99.

The report exposed the huge financial gaps in the gateway contract between the government of Sierra Leone represented by SIERRATEL and TELTAC, a telecoms service provider.

It would be recalled that TELTAC, owned by Hisham Mackie, got the contract for the control of the country’s international gateway, which regulates the traffic into and out of the country in terms of calls and other telecoms services.

The Report highlighted the difference between what the service regulator TELTAC claimed to have paid to government of Sierra Leone as proceeds from the international gateway, and what SIERRATEL claimed to have received. According to the Report, TELTAC paid $71,957,755.14 to SIERRATEL for the period June 2007 to June 2016. But SIERRATEL’s records indicate TELTAC paid $58,378,820.15 for the period June 2007 to June 2016, leaving a difference of $13,578,934.99.