By Foday Moriba Conteh
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has revealed that the High Court of Sierra Leone, Holden in Freetown, presided over by the Justice Alusine Sesay JSC on 2nd July, 2020, convicted Aiah Momodu, Customs Broker and of 26 Newcastle Street and Abdul S. Kabba, Delivery Clerk of Kollenten Shipping Services on the offence of Fraudulent failure to make payment of Custom levy, contrary to Section 48(1)(d) of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008.
The anti-graft institution furthered that Justice Alusine Sesay JSC convicted Aiah Momodu and Abdul S. Kabba and ruled that they pay a fine of Thirty Million Leones (Le: 30,000.000/00) each, within the period of thirty days, effective the date of the Judgment or each serves a three- year imprisonment term.
It was stated by the ACC that between the 1st and 31st March, 2014, Aiah Momodu and Abdul S. Kabba fraudulently failed to pay customs levy payable on a 40 Feet Container to the National Revenue Authority in the sum of Twenty Three Million, Four Hundred and Sixty Six Thousand, Two Hundred and Twenty Two Leones, Forty Four Cents (Le23, 466,222.44).
The ACC maintained that on the other hand, Ahmed Kamara, an Officer of the Prevention Services and Special Duties Department of the National Revenue Authority, was acquitted and discharged, on the charge of Abuse of Office. It revealed that also, during the trial, the Judge had on the 28th October, 2019, ruled in favour of Ahmed Tambawa, Documentation Supervisor at the Freetown Terminal Ltd (Bollore), on a No Case Submission.
The Commission wished to reassure the general public of its relentless commitment to controlling corruption at all levels in Sierra Leone.
