{"id":34429,"date":"2012-01-28T04:49:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T04:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=34429"},"modified":"2012-01-28T04:49:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T04:49:57","slug":"minister-sacked-for-marrying-slpp-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=34429","title":{"rendered":"Minister sacked for marrying SLPP woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Disclosures are that the sacking of the Minister of Energy and Power, Prof. Ogunlade Davidson was due to leaks that he\u00a0has pitched fence with a tough SLPP woman; underhandedly saying &#8220;I do&#8221; to her matrimonial reunion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It is told that the sacked Minister surreptitiously had a wedding get-together with an opposition Sierra Leone People\u2019s Party (SLPP) strong female follower &#8211; one time Minister of Health in the redundant regime, Madam Abathur Thomas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Throughout the wedding, our source revealed, not a single executive, Minister or strong member of the governing APC was present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The wedding was allegedly dominated by strong SLPP bigwigs, and a number of friends of the wedded wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A state house source has nevertheless told this press that the information regarding Prof. Ogunlade\u2019s wedding of the SLPP bigwig reached ears of the APC days prior to his dismissal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Revelations are that senior APC members have accused the sacked Minister for betraying the trust of the APC party; and said he is a suspect of an \u2018information sell out.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It could be recalled that the media, on a number of occasions, has accused the sacked Energy Minister of corruption, in particular, the awarding of contracts and other related issues to allies of his.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He was also accused of bending procurement rules thus single handedly giving a contract for the purchase of a generator for the Lungi community to a business organization, which up until now is unfulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As at going to press, efforts to get comments from the sacked Minister or his alleged wife, the Minister of Information, or his deputy, proved futile. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclosures are that the sacking of the Minister of Energy and Power, Prof. Ogunlade Davidson was due to leaks that he\u00a0has pitched fence with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,692,1],"tags":[11236,7302],"class_list":["post-34429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-madam-abathur-thomas","tag-prof-ogunlade-davidson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429","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=34429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}