{"id":33168,"date":"2011-12-13T04:25:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=33168"},"modified":"2011-12-13T04:25:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:25:26","slug":"teacher-of-makeni-comprehensive-academy-convicted-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=33168","title":{"rendered":"Teacher of Makeni Comprehensive Academy convicted for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Teacher of the Makeni Comprehensive Academy Makeni, Mr. Foday Khalil Sheriff, has been convicted for corruption offences under the ACC Act 2008 by the High Court of Sierra Leone.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Delivering his verdict at the High Court in Makeni on Saturday 10<sup>th<\/sup> December 2011, the Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Sam Margai, sentenced him to three years jail term or pay a fine of thirty million Leones after he pleaded guilty to the offence of soliciting and accepting an advantage for performing an act contrary to section 28 (2) of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Mr. Foday Khalil Sheriff was charged to court by the Anti-Corruption Commission on 13<sup>th<\/sup> October 2011 under the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008 for soliciting and accepting five thousand Leones (Le. 5,000) from pupils of Makeni Comprehensive Academy for the collection of their BECE results.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The State was represented by Abdul Rahman Mansaray, Imran Kanu, and Sariffou Harleston, while Mr. Foday Khalil Sheriff was represented by Alpha Fornah Esq.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher of the Makeni Comprehensive Academy Makeni, Mr. Foday Khalil Sheriff, has been convicted for corruption offences under the ACC Act 2008 by the High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,1],"tags":[694,2399,11049,11050],"class_list":["post-33168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-acc","tag-anti-corruption","tag-corrupt-teacher","tag-foday-kalil-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}