As a way of preventing incidences of corruption in public institutions, the Public Education and Outreach Department of the Anti-Corruption North-West Regional Office has on Wednesday 4th November 2020 held a sensitization meeting with the District Health Management Team (DHMT) in Port Loko. Addressing staff of the team, the Regional Manager Al-Hassan Sesay recognized and acknowledged the importance of the DHMT in providing and managing the delivery of primary health...Read More
The Legal Aid Board has on Monday November 9, 2020, paid out Le 80 million owed to 21 former casual workers of GTIEX Company in salary arrears and benefits. This was achieved after a long drawn battle in the industrial court before settling for an out of court settlement and a then consent judgment in which GITEX (the Defendant) agreed to pay Le 80,000,000 to the former workers of the...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice, His Lordship Ambassador Desmond Babatunde Edwards has strongly warned Judicial staff against corruption and other related offences which he said will undermine sustainable reforms and growth of the institution. Hon. Justice Edwards was speaking on Tuesday November 10, 2020, at Court No. 1, Law Courts building in Freetown on the occasion of the official commencement of the training for court registrars, baliffs, administrative and other support...Read More
Acting on behalf of the Honourable Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu Saffa, the Iron Lady of the Finance Ministry who also happens to be the Deputy Minister of Finance, Honourable Patricia N. Laverley, on Friday November 6, 2020 delivered what many described as a memorable speech. In her opening statement at the new Freetown City Council Administrative Building, but now called City Hall Complex, the eloquent Deputy Minister started out...Read More
Sierra Leone has again, in three consecutive years, increased its score in the ‘Control of Corruption’ indicator in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard, moving from 79% in the 2019 Scorecard, to 81% in 2020, thereby adding 2 percentage points upwards. According to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), between 2017 and 2020, Sierra Leone has made a total of 32 % upwards. They continued, “in this year’s Scorecard, Sierra Leone made...Read More
