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Anti Corruption Commission Squeeze NRA , Sierra Leone Airports Authority Bosses And Education Ministry’s Permanent Secretary
Posted by on Jun 24, 2009, 16:08
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The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has released its shot on three national institutions that have failed in their state functions. The Commission has taken to task heads of these institutions and subpoenaed them to explain to the National Anti Corruption Strategy why they failed to submit to the Commission their institution’s performance tracking or feedback on the implementation of their respective Action Plans for the first quarter of 2009. The heads are Mr. Sheku A.Tamu, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Mr. John Brima, Ag.General Manager, Sierra Leone Airport Authority and Mr. Alieu Sesay, Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority. They were frog-marched to the ACC office on last Friday, 19th June 2009.
Mr. Shollay Davis, the Director of the NACS Coordinating Secretariat, read out to each Public Officer the consequences of non-compliance as stipulated in Section 8(4) and (5) of the Anti Corruption Act 2008 as amended which states that..
“Sec,8(4) The head of a public body which fails to comply with instruction of the Commission or variation thereof commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not less than five million leones” Sec. 8(5) In addition to the penalty prescribed in subsection(4), the head of the public body shall be subject to disciplinary measures including dismissal or removal from office by the appropriate authority notwithstanding the provision of their letter of appointment or any enactment to the contrary”
The Chairman of the Steering Committee, Mr. Emil Carr, further asked each Public Officer to give reasons why the stipulations of the sections quoted from the Anti Corruption Act 2008 should not be invoked against them. The three Public Officers on behalf of their institutions acquiesce to the charge of non compliance levied by the Steering Committee and pleaded for pardon. The three officers also tabled their institutions’ responses to the NACS Action Plan and promised to be more pro-active in the future on the implementation of their Action Plans and their reporting responsibilities.
The Steering Committee dismissed all the three men and promised to communicate to them in writing the decision of the committee. It would be recalled that the implementation of the National Anti Corruption Strategy (NACS), which is the national plan in the fight against corruption commenced in January this year after it was adopted by Government in May 2008. Entities under the various pillars of pillars of integrity bear the greatest responsibility for the implementation of the NACS
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