{"id":53147,"date":"2013-02-19T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=53147"},"modified":"2013-02-19T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:40:45","slug":"corrupt-sierra-leone-perm-sec-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=53147","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt Sierra Leone Perm Sec Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The dubious activities of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children\u2019s Affairs, Brima Rogers, have started coming to light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Our investigation reveals that while serving as Permanent Secretary at the Lands Ministry, he illegally acquired a plot of land at the Freetown Central Lorry Park at Texaco where he has built a vocational institute called the International Vocational Institute. \u00a0Mr.Rogers is reported to be now misappropriating state funds to sponsor his private institute headed by his blood brother, Amara Rogers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This press has gathered that recently, Mr. Rogers disbursed Le 59 M, meant for government or government-supported institutions, to his private institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Contacted, the superficial proprietor of the institute said she would only comment after consulting Mr. Rogers who is yet to give his own side of the story.<\/p>\n<p><i>By Raymond Bai Kamara<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dubious activities of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children\u2019s Affairs, Brima Rogers, have started coming to light. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,673,692],"tags":[14739,880,1124,14933],"class_list":["post-53147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national-news","category-politics","tag-brima-rogers","tag-corruption","tag-gender-and-childrens-affairs","tag-permanent-secretary-of-the-ministry-of-social-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53147","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53147\/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=53147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}