The people of Sierra Leone are clamouring for the return of  former Inspector General of Police, Ambrose Sovula and the disgraced former Bank of Sierra Leone Governor, Professor Kelfala Kallon.

Both men are now seeking refuge in the U.S after committing acts of political malfeasance and corruption in Sierra Leone and both men are regarded by Sierra Leoneans as fugitives.

We will be launching a media campaign for both men to be arrested and sent back to Sierra Leone to face justice.

HERE ARE 2 ARTICLES ON THE MALFEASANCE OF THE TWO DISGRACED OFFICIALS

Why President Bio Sacked Former IGP Sovula

There has been widespread speculation that the former Inspector-General of Police, Ambrose Sovula, was sacked for negligence with regards to the alleged cocaine container which was reportedly switched under his supervision.

This 40ft Container was arrested on Friday 22, July, 2022 at Kingtom, on suspicion it contained some Contraband items.

The police took custody of the said container and later opened it in public view only to find in it un-stashed of frozen chicken and frozen sausages, with no arms, or drugs uncovered.

But soon after, Dr Sylvia Blyden and the Awareness Times mounted series of Investigations from which they found out that a Maersk Line shipping container (containing frozen chicken) identical to the suspected Cocaine container was switched with the suspected container behind closed gates of Senior Police Officers Mess at Kingtom

Awareness Times Newspaper’s reports had evidence of a photo showing the process of the switch during which a very senior Police officer violently chased them out of the premises for the crime of “staying behind to kongosah” after other journalists had left.

The same report revealed an official data from Brazil Police which showed a history of the movement of Cocaine between Brazil to Freetown in sea containers.

That report aroused a controversy among Sierra Leoneans after which was followed by the announcement of the dismissal of the former Inspector-General of Police, Ambrose Sovula.

In the fake degree whistle blower’s revelations, Ambrose Sovula was revealed to be a recipient of a fake PHDs from African Graduates University and Dominion Christian University.

The Whistle blower Dr John Idriss Lahai also disclosed that the IG of Police, Ambrose Sovula’s first degree,  Masters and  PhD are all fake.

Some Sierra Leoneans are saying it could be that the President have accepted that the former IG is not and was never competent to serve in that position and that is why he has taken the decision to sack him.

However, the other set of  Sierra Leoneans are saying that it is nemesis that has caught up with him for all crimes committed against human rights under his leadership.

It was under his watchful gaze  injustices was done to poor and innocent Sierra Leoneans in the likes of popular musician, Alhaji Amadu Bah popularly known as LAJ who was detained, tortured, injected with harmful substance and forcefully cut off his dreadlocks.

His two brothers, Ishmael Bah and Mohamed S. Bah, and nine others were sentenced to 36 months imprisonment for riotous conduct and disorderly behavior, when in actual sense their only crimes was to go to the OSD HQ on the 15^th  June demanding to see LAJ who was being held in custody.

Fellow musicians, politicians, civil servants, lawyers, activists and Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora have all condemned his arrest and advocated for his release but yet still the rapper is behind bars.

The New Leone is Dead on Arrival

One of Sierra Leone’s shrewd, seasoned and prolific Economists, Prince Jacob Macauley, prior to the introduction of the redenomination of the Leone, cautioned the Bank Governor and the Government that such a policy, if implemented, will be counter-productive, adding that the “new currency is dead on arrival”, mainly because the conditions for the redenomination of the Leone were not available.

However, the Governor did not heed to his caution and today the Leone continues to plummet in value to the dollar with the redenomination boomeranging creating a situation where currently the Old and the New Leones are in circulation.

In an exclusive interview with this medium, Prince Macauley noted that one of the conditions that must exist for a redenomination of the currency to be effective is that there should be a low inflation rate, with the tendency of it decreasing. In other words, the inflation rate in the country must be low and there must be the possibility of it reducing further.

 

Macauley argued vehemently that one of the prevailing conditions during which the Bank Governor proposed the redenomination was such that there was high inflation, heavy taxation and failure of several economic policies to revamp the economy.

It must be recalled that the Bank Governor had, prior to the redenomination, embarked on the printing of the old notes some three time, auctioned the dollar some three time, placed ban on the amount of foreign exchange one could have in on one’s possession or the banks could give out etc. All those were signs, he pointed out at that time, to reaffirm that the economy was not growing and inflation was rising, and that as such it was not the best time for a redenomination of the Leone to take place.

The erudite Economist maintained how the Bank Governor failed to look at the determining factors that give values to a country’s currency which are the factors that influence the successful outcome of any currency redenomination and these must involve affordable prices of goods and services, living wages, salaries, pensions, debts, reasonable rents, low exchange rates and taxes.

He furthered that in times of inflation the purchasing power of a country’s currency is weak reiterating that inflation adversely affects purchasing power and daily transactions. Macauley intimated that the Bank Governor failed to look at the challenges and impact on the Economy that the redenomination will cause.

Macauley maintained that it is not a surprise that the redenomination has faced difficulties, which has led people to go for the dollar, adding that as the value of the Leone continues to depreciate on a daily basis, many people are changing their Leones for dollar.

He made mention of a scenario, where a customer has some Le200 million in his account when the dollar rate was at Leone 1,000,000 (one million); his account in dollars will be $20,000, but now, with the recent increase in the dollar to about Leone 2 million, the customer’s account will deteriorate to $10,000. This situation, Macauley argued that such will lead people to lose confidence in the Leone, hence the current rise in the rate of the dollar against the Leone.