{"id":8027,"date":"2010-05-07T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2010-05-07T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:39:21","slug":"sierra-leones-anti-corruption-chief-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=8027","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone&#8217;s anti-corruption chief resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The head of Sierra Leone&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, has resigned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His reasons for doing so have not been made public. He had been in the post since December 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC&#8217;s Umaru Fofana in Freetown says Mr Tejan-Cole had been very active in his fight against corruption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A minister has already been sacked and the former minister of fisheries and marine resources is currently on trial for financial impropriety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before his appointed, Mr Tejan-Cole was a prominent human rights lawyer with a reputation for strict probity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our correspondent says corruption is seen as one of the reasons for the outbreak of civil war in the country in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is also seen as the reason the country has been almost consistently at the bottom of the UN&#8217;s human development index, despite its huge mineral resources, he says.<\/p>\n<address>Umaru Fofana, Freetown for BBC News<\/address>\n<p>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Sierra Leone&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, has resigned. His reasons for doing so have not been made public. He had been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[699,673,1],"tags":[1531,694,948],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-abdul-tejan-cole","tag-acc","tag-anti-corruption-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/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=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}