Sources close to the Sierra Leone anti-graft agency have confided to this medium that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has exonerated the Managing Director of the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank (SLCB), Yusufu Abdul Silla.
Mr. Silla is exonerated from intents of committing criminal and financial misappropriation in purchase of fifteen (15) operational vehicles and an official vehicle.
He was alleged to have been bought an official vehicle as the bank’s managing director.
According to our sources, after a thorough investigation into the procurement of the acclaimed vehicles allegedly purchased by the SLCB, the ACC believed that the Managing Director had acted with no criminal intent to be warranted or proffered charges against him. Reports says, however, there were some administrative breaches in connection to the bank’s operations.
All the said vehicles were brand new with zero mileages, the report says.
The ACC report is contrary to media allegations of financial misappropriation being done by the managing director in the process of procuring those vehicles.
Admittedly, though, the vehicles, which the bank had purchased, are of good use as they’ve saved up the bank huge sums of money. Initially, the bank had solely depended on rentals for its daily operations.
In relation to the issue, a reliable source from ACC had also intimated this medium that the anti-graft agency had handed over recommendations to the SLCB’s Board of Directors to put strict measures in place in order to stop the recurrence of procurements carried out without thorough administrative supervision.