By Edward Vamboi
In a Press Release dated the 10th May, 2021,the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) stated that on the 6th May, 2021 it filed an indictment against Idrissa Alimamy Patience Kargbo, Legal Officer and Regional Manager of the Office of the Ombudsman, and of No. 23 Kambia Highway, Port Loko City, on Six (6) counts of corruption offences; Two (2) counts bordering on Soliciting an Advantage, Contrary to Section 28 (2)(a), and Four (4) counts of Accepting an Advantage, Contrary to Section 28 (2) (a), of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008 as amended by the Anti-Corruption Act No.9 of 2019.
It further stated that Idrissa Alimamy Patience Kargbo, on various dates between 1st April 2019 and 31st January 2020, in Port Loko City, in the North-West Region of Sierra Leone, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, solicited and accepted an Advantage in the total sum of Five Million, One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Leones (Le5, 150,000), from two complainants, ostensibly as payment for his upkeep and transportation in assisting them to recover their six months backlog salary.
According to the ACC, Idrissa Alimamy Patience Kargbo, is expected to make his first appearance in the High Court of Sierra Leone Holden at Makeni on 20th May, 2021.
