By Sallieu S. Kanu
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) wishes to inform the general public that it has filed an indictment against Raymond Frank Williams, First Grade Officer, Law Officers Department of the Attorney General, and Fatmata Madallo Sesay, on Five Counts of corruption.
Fatmata Madallo Sesay* is indicted on one count of Giving an Advantage to a Public Officer contrary to Section 28 (1) (c), and one count of Offering an Advantage to a Public Officer contrary to Section 35 (2) of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008 as amended by the Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Act No. 9 of 2019, the ACC said in a statement it put on Monday.
Raymond Frank Williams is indicted on one Count of Accepting an Advantage contrary to Section 28 (2) (c), one Count of Abuse of Office contrary to Section 42 (1) and one Count of Use of office for advantage by a public officer contrary to Section 44 (1), of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008 as amended by the Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Act No. 9 of 2019.
The particulars of offence state that Madallo Sesay, between the 1st and 30th of October, 2022, at Freetown in the Western Area of the Republic of Sierra Leone, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, gave an advantage in the sum of Le1,500,000 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand (Old) Leones) to Frank Williams, a public officer, as an inducement to assist in the filing and registering with the Office of the Administrator and Registrar-General, a Testamentary Will, ostensibly prepared by the now deceased Abdul Rahman Sesay.