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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman A special internal audit into the financial status and operational activities of Sierra Leone’s National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), the country’s social security agency, has discovered that officials in charge of managing retirement pensions and issuing social security benefits to workers and their […]

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In our first report on the Office of the Chief Minister of Sierra Leone published on February 14, 2021, we showed how the Office of the Chief Minister spent over Le34.2 billion Leones (more than US$3.4 million) in less than three years without following the

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Financial records obtained by the Africanist Press show how the Office of the Chief Minister of Sierra Leone spent over Le34.2 billion Leones (more than US$3.4 million) in less than three years despite the fact that President Maada Bio was elected into office under the

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In two previous reports published on January 18 and 25 2021, we showed how the wife of the president of Sierra Leone, Madam Fatima Jabbe Bio, received nearly Le30 billion Leones (almost US$3 million) of government funds in less than three years after the inauguration

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Documents on the finances and expenditure details of the Office of the First Lady of Sierra Leone show clearly how Madam Fatima Jabbe Bio spent more than Le7.89 billion (over US$780,000) of public funds on personal shopping needs, and paying the travel costs and hotel

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Bank statements and other official documents on financial operations of the Government of Sierra Leone obtained by the Africanist Press show precisely how the wife of the president of Sierra Leone, Madam Fatima Jabbe Bio received nearly Le30 billion Leones (almost US$3 million) of government

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In our January 5th article on travel expenditures by the President of Sierra Leone, we reported how the country’s president Julius Maada Bio, and his wife Fatima Bio, spent more than Le5.2 billion (over US$520,000) on travel costs and per diems in December 2020. We

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Official correspondences and bank statements on travel expenditures from the Office of the President of Sierra Leone uncovered by Africanist Press reveals shocking details on how the country’s president Julius Maada Bio, and his wife Fatima Bio, spent more than Le5.2 billion (over US$520,000) on