{"id":33751,"date":"2012-01-11T00:56:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=33751"},"modified":"2012-01-11T00:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:56:30","slug":"appropriation-musa-tarawallys-le-1bn-contract-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=33751","title":{"rendered":"Appropriation\u2026 Musa Tarawally\u2019s Le 1Bn contract exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Reports are that the Minister of Internal Affairs, Musa Tarawally\u00a0may possibly explain to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) how a sum totaling Le1,000,000,000 meant for the rehabilitation of Lungi Police Barracks was misappropriated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Musa Tarawally (then Member of Parliament for the Sierra Leone People\u2019s Party Member), was awarded a contract to rehabilitate and construct structures at the Lungi Police Barracks during periods of Sierra Leone People\u2019s Party (SLPP) governance control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Findings have it that Musa Tarawally disregarded rehabilitating and constructing quarters at Lungi police as required by the contract, but rather collected an amount of Le 1,000,000,000 being money paid for the work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Disclosures are that Musa Tarawally may also be compelled to account for another Le10,000,000 given him by government (the ruling APC) for the transformation of the \u2018Kamajor militias\u2019 into a civil society organization as he once acted as Resident Minister south.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">It could be recalled that, in 2011, this press published a story notifying officials of the ACC with regard Musa Tarawally\u2019s alleged appropriation of public\u2019s money &#8211; amounting to one billion Leones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The media, on a number of times, has asserted that Musa Tarawally has been busily lobbying bigwigs of the governing APC party, to make them possibly blow his horn to President Koroma for the position of running mate come the 2012 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">At some point in 2011 Musa Tarawally paid an unannounced visit to Kono district (the home town of the current Sierra Leone Vice President) and was accused of perpetrating disturbances against vulnerable Kono residents. His bodyguards (armed police officers) allegedly discharged live bullets at hundreds of Kono youths for, as they put it: \u201cthe visit was clandestine.\u201d<\/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<div align=\"center\"><strong><\/strong><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are that the Minister of Internal Affairs, Musa Tarawally\u00a0may possibly explain to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) how a sum totaling Le1,000,000,000 meant for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,692,1],"tags":[7049],"class_list":["post-33751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-musa-tarawally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33751","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=33751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}