Sierra Leone: Sam-Sumana Petition Adjourned Again

The Supreme Court hearing of the Sam-Sumana petition was last Friday adjourned for another two weeks after lawyers for the first and second respondents, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, and Victor Bockarie Foh, respectively, told the court the plaintiff lawyers had failed to serve them a supplementary affidavit.

In attendance at the jam-packed courtroom was the sacked Vice President, Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana, who was hoping to see a commencement of the constitutional case at the apex court, nearly two months after his lawyers filed an originating motion challenging his "purported sacking" by President Ernest Bai Koroma.

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