{"id":38034,"date":"2012-04-03T21:18:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=38034"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:18:45","slug":"as-acc-extradites-sorious-and-others-vp-sumana-to-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=38034","title":{"rendered":"As ACC extradites Sorious and others &#8211; VP Sumana to testify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suspects of the Al-Jazeera \u2018Timbergate\u2019 documentary footage, Alex Mansaray, Momoh Conteh, Sorious Samura and the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Chief Samuel Sam Sumana, have been under the watchful eyes of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) who are still investigating elements of corruption and bribery claims exposed by the television cable network sometime in November of last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sorious Samura, a BBC journalist hired by Al-Jazeera to uncover corruption in Sierra Leone, his country of birth, under its popular broadcasting program: \u201cAfrica Investigates Corruption\u201d, is being critiqued by the ACC to ascertain the relevance of crime in relation to corruption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ACC sources have tipped Sierra Express Media that the ACC have taken testimonies of Alex Mansaray, Momoh Conteh, and Sorious Samura having being brought home by Interpol to face extradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ACC, according to our source, considers the case a menace and a serious offence that is likely to dampen the image of Sierra Leone, especially the office of the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Public opinion has held a strong view ever since the release of the video footage for ACC to take a critical look into the matter.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Mohamed Turay<\/em><\/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>Suspects of the Al-Jazeera \u2018Timbergate\u2019 documentary footage, Alex Mansaray, Momoh Conteh, Sorious Samura and the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Chief Samuel Sam Sumana, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,1],"tags":[7368,11770,10950,10896,11699,11771],"class_list":["post-38034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-al-jazeera","tag-alex-mansaray","tag-momoh-conteh","tag-sorious-samura","tag-timbergate","tag-vice-president-samuel-sam-sumana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38034","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=38034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38034\/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=38034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}