Sierra Leone: Kemoh Sesay Sacked for Police to Arrest

Sacked minister of transport and aviation Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay could be arrested and charged as the twentieth accused for offences directly related to the July 12 cocaine bust at the Lungi international airport.

Like the nineteen others standing trial for similar offences the new anti drugs law may not affect his case, but if it does, in which case it would have contravened section 23 (7) of the 1991 constitution, Kemoh Sesay may be liable on conviction to a fine not less than thirty million leones or to a term of imprisonment not less than ten years.

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