Kenema CA Inherits Corrupt Council
The new Chief Administrator of the Kenema District Council, Tamba Musa, has informed this press that he inherited a highly corrupt and messed-up council from the out-gone chairman, Patrick Samu. (Photo: staff of Kenema District Council)
In an exclusive interview recently in his office in Kenema, Mr. Musa told our reporter that the out-gone chairman, Mr. Samu, left him an overstaffed and economically depleted council, with almost everything in disorder.
Mr. Musa revealed that instead of four finance clerks as mandated by the Local Council Act, the council has twenty eight finance clerks, most of them unilaterally recruited by the out-gone chairman. “Most of the clerks seldom come to work and when they come, they spend the whole day idling around” Mr. Musa stated, adding that the new finance officer, Patrick Kamara is upset by the excess number of idle finance clerks whose monthly salaries payment have been a serious headache to the impoverished council.
The CA noted the out-gone chairman, Mr. Samu had two secretaries one an Aide-de camp and the other an attaché describing them as unnecessary and a financial burden on the council. “I met the council without any attendance register, workers came to work and departed as and when they liked and there was nobody to query them as the former CA was a puppet to the out-gone chairman who was ruling the council like his personal property”, Mr. Musa informed, recalling that at one time the whole council work was grounded almost all the workers left their work just to follow the out-gone chairman to a funeral ceremony of one of his deceased relatives.
“Samu was like a god in the council, he was everything; he was the CA, the finance officer and a dictator dictating almost everything to the workers who obeyed him without question” Mr. Musa said.
Mr. Musa stated that he and his finance officer, Mr. Kamara, are now spending sleepless nights trying to repair the damage left by Mr. Samu. “It is because I am trying to correct the wrongs he did, that is why I am being accused of many things; including an accusation of sexually harassing a lady, many know as a close relative of Mr. Samu.
Up till press time, Mr. Samu could not be contacted to respond to the accusations.
By Joseph Milton Lebbie
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