By Thomas Dixon
FREETOWN, May 27 (SALONE TIMES) –The Anti-Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone over the weekend concluded investigations of ‘Bribe” statement made by the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone Professor Kelfala Morana Kallon to Parliament. Professor Kallon made the remarks at a pre-legislature to parliament on the 22nd November, 2021 in which he said he bribed people who were hoarding the Leones to bring it back into the banking system. The bribe he said was to the tune of $60m (Sixty Million US Dollars).
The ACC in a press release dated 22nd May 2022, six months after the Bank governor made the statement, said that based on their findings even though the Governor himself openly said that he bribed, yet the statement was what they called ‘MISCHARACTERIZATION’ of what transpired and the use of the word ‘bribe’ in that context was in error.
Most Sierra Leoneans who read the release are left wondering whether the bank Governor, who is also a professor admitted that he bribed only for ACC to say that he had not meant what he had said. Some even jokingly colored the whole affair with a Dominion brush.
