Who Pays Philip Conteh’s Le 30M fine – APC?
It has reached the desks of Sierra Express Media that corrupt high court convict, Philip Conteh (in photo) has had friends (APC party members) toe line to help him pay a court fine of Le 30 million.
Philip Conteh, who was Sierra Leone’s director of Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC), was at the well of the high court to answer to a number of corruption charges slammed on him and two others.
Philip however, convicted alongside Allieu Kamara, and Janto Kamara, was ordered to pay a fine of Le 30 million, or languish in the cells of the Central Maximum prison as an alternative.
Unconfirmed disclosures have it that core APC members hurriedly raised money for their colleague Philip Conteh to enable him to pay the court fine.
Credible information reaching this press states that Philip Conteh and cohort patrols night clubs on extravaganza activities on a daily basis.
It could be recalled that Philip and Allieu were marched to the high court for misappropriation of money to the tune of US $100,000 +.
Two of the convicts used to carry big titles at the ABC secretariat, but fell short owing to their involvement in corruption.
Facts have it that Philip was in the United States, but returned to Sierra Leone shortly after APC’s Presidential victory in 2007. He was compensated and made to occupy the office of the director of ABC.
Just last year 2010, he was, together with well-known AFRC Allieu Kamara aka Territorial Integrity, arraigned before the high court to answer to criminal charges on counts of corruption.
Comments gathered from a variety of speakers indicate that President Koroma’s professed attitudinal change has made no impact to the lives of society. That Philip Conteh had chopped hundreds of millions Leones but fined a pittance by the high court.
It is also revealed that persons convicted for corruption, especially so, loyalists of the ruling APC party, enjoy straightforward payment of court fines due to offers given them.
A civil servant was spotted as saying that “clandestine support given corrupt state officials will make no good to government’s fights against corruption in society at all.”
Public’s opinion states that the courts have never jailed corruption convicts, but rather fines them small money.
“Who pays the fines – APC?” a group of youths asked.
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