As ACC Whitewashes Le147B Revenue Corruption… WHO SUPERVISES ABU KAMARA?

On Thursday 14 August, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) said that they have filed an indictment against Abu Kamara, former Finance Manager of National Revenue Authority (NRA) at the Customs Department of 9 counts of possession of unexplained wealth contrary to section 27(1b) of the ACC Act No 12 of 2008 as amended by ACC Amendment Act of 2019.

The indictment listed couple of properties allegedly owned by Abu Kamara as against his Le152,790 annual salary.

This has sparked debate amongst Sierra Leoneans as to whether Abu Kamara who is just finance manager does not have a supervisor or supervisors who supervised him and may have been complicit in his brazen corruption.

Others believed that this is a way in which ACC has always been whitewashing corruption by deflecting attention from the real issues, noting that this issue of Abu Kamara was sparked by over Le147B missing revenue in just a year.

That ACC is presenting a case as if Abu Kamara is the only one that may have been involved in this grand thievery.

That such could not have happened without the other staff and the commercial banks in the country.

“There is no way one man can be involved in such grand corruption and I urge the ACC to come out clean on this. On the issue of unexplained wealth, its good the ACC has started to investigate it because it will bring a lot out,” a former ACC Investigator said on anonymity for fear of reprisal.

It could be recalled that in April this year a grand corruption was uncovered at NRA for which Abu Kamara the finance Manager is on the run.

The whole issue was sparked by Wadi Aboud who made a Le500M import GST payment through the transit account at one of the commerical banks but the money could not be traced.

Upon investigation it was discovered that this revenue corruption has been going for some time and that in just 2024 over Le147B got missing. While the Criminal Investigation Department was investigating, the ACC decided to take up the investigation.

Earlier the Director of Finance denied to SALONE TIMES that he was invited to the CID for investigation.