Sierra Leone’s former Vice President Victor Foh on Wednesday appeared in court relating to charges of corruption.
He appeared in court together with former Mines Minister Minkailu Mansaray also arrested on charges of corruption.
The two appeared before a high court as they stand accused for misappropriating public funds during the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca last year.
They all plead not guilty and have been released on bail.
Corruption allegations
President Julius Maada Bio’s government set up a commission to investigate the previous government over corrupt acts.
The commission claimed there was massive act of corruption under the previous government.
There were also reports of theft of state property and the award of contracts to relatives of government officials.
Julius Maada Bio who became President this year earlier announced the sacking of all political appointees at the country’s foreign missions.
Those sacked included ambassadors and information attachés. Bio went further to ask all public sector workers who have attained the age of 60 to retire.
Sierra Leone witnessed a brutal, diamond-fuelled civil war in the 1990s and the new president faces a huge task of trying to fix the West African country’s economy, still recovering from the war and recent Ebola epidemic.
Source: Africafeeds.com
