Anti-Corruption Commissioner Francis Ben Kaifala has said that according to ACC investigations, the 2018 flagbearer of the All Peoples Congress party, Samura Mathiew Wilson Kamara, SLPP’s Alie Kabba, Nabila Tunis and others will be charged to court in connection with a missing one million United States dollar meant for the construction of the Sierra Leone Permanent Mission House or Chancery in New York, USA.
The commissioner made these remarks yesterday at a press conference held at the ACC office, Cathedral House in Freetown.
According to Ben Kaifala, preliminary investigations had been done and interview conducted with various persons of interest including past and current high-profile government officials, which resulted in the ACC charging the above-mentioned persons to court.
The ACC boss said that the investigations revealed that the original contract for the renovation was two million five hundred and sixty thousand US Dollars, but for one reason or another two million US dollars in approximation was added to the contract, which is equivalent to over 100% addition to the original contract price without following due procedure.
He said the investigations pointed out that over 90% of the payment had been given to the contractor but only 47% of the work had been completed.
He stated that the investigation revealed that no proper procurement procedures were followed from the bidding process of the contract to making payment.
The ACC commissioner also said that through the investigations, it was discovered that “the contractor who is an American citizen does not even have a licence to operate a construction company”.
He further said that the investigations highlighted that in the process of transferring monies from Sierra Leone to New York, some monies went to the account of the said Sierra Leone Chancery in the US while “some monies went into private hands”
