Who chopped the Le 300M Afsatu is convicted of?
High Court #2 on Tuesday 12th October, 2010 convicted Afsatu Kabba (in photo), former Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources on 5 out of 7 count charges of corruption and other related offences.
The ruling also compelled convicted Afsatu Kabba to pay a fine of Le150 million or serve a sentence of a considerable number of years.
She was ordered to pay an additional Le 300 million for money withdrawn from the Fines Fund account of Fisheries and Marine Resources at the Bank of Sierra Leone.
Citations as told above, questioned who among the two, APC/Afsatu Kabba should rightfully refund the Le 300 million alleged to have been unscrupulously withdrawn from the account of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources.
Exposed: according evidence of credible Fisheries Ministry personnel, it was told before the High Court that withdrawals of money from the Fines Fund of the Ministry came due to the Instruction of the then Minister-Afsatu Kabba.
It was also revealed that the withdrawn money was choked into a ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag and taken to State House to help in the ‘augmentation of then APC convention’ proposals.
Of course, mouths of Sierra Leoneans went busy when witnesses related Afsatu’s corruption overindulgences to that of APC’s compellable financial contributions of Ministers and their Ministries on issues bordering on the ancient times Makeni convention plan.
To society, it was unbelievable that the APC which supports the Anti Corruption into having Afsatu face corruption trial, has been the party named in relation to monies unlawfully withdrawn from a public fund.
No matter what APC may say in defense of revelations as told in the well of High Court #2, facts, as brought out, and acknowledgement of a whole Justice of the High Court; ordering Afsatu pay Le 300 million in refund of money unlawfully withdrawn from a public fund, legalizes testimonies of personnel of Fisheries Ministry that the amount was meant to support funding for the past APC Makeni convention.
Was not Afsatu Kabba used as scapegoat or was it that monies withdrawn bears not, anything bordering on the past AP C Makeni gathering?
Those who witnessed court hearings on the trial of Afsatu, will say unfailingly, that Le 300 million confirmed withdrawn from the forenamed account has the true bearings of APC’s uncalled for and stressful financial request in meeting to plans the past Makeni convention.
Of course, of the 7 counts against Afsatu, 5 were proved real and 2 fake.
She was ordered to pay Le 150 million or go to jail for 3 years.
To public’s opinion, Afsatu’s 5 counts conviction is being looked at as court’s decision period; Uncontested or detested.
But again, the ruling has been looked at as not matching up to the expectations of sympathizers of Afsatu and officers of ACC respectively.
To the sympathizers, the ruling was seen as unfair and has deep political bearings. But to the ACC, punishment imposed seemed too mild.
Justice Samuel Ade-Musun’s ruling has been viewed with displeasure by persons in solidarity of Afsatu Kabba.
The amazement, as observed on the lips of many, relates to mandate in the verdict of Justice Ade-Musun, which eventually compels Afsatu to pay Le 300 million allegedly withdrawn from Fisheries fines fund; monies assumed to have been delivered to State House as the Ministry’s contribution to then APC Makeni convention.
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yankay seisay
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I think you should have join in the prosecution so that you would have just implicate the APC party . Because it seems as if Afsatu who SLPP was showing some hyprocrite sympathy is now becoming dumb as well . Some political stunt lack substance .
14th October 2010