Samuel Kallon 
By Ragan M Conteh
The Public Account Committee (PAC) in Parliament headed by the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon Ibrahim Tawa Conteh, has disclosed that Gento Group of Company has no query as alleged by Audit Service Sierra Leone’s report.
According to the report the Gento Group was engaging in ‘double dipping’.
The Speaker highlighted Mr.Kemokai Fatorma at MoF habit of copy and paste.
Mr Kemokai reacted that documents submitted to the Audit Service Sierra Leone which alleged Gento Group to involved in corrupt act had typographical issues.
Hon Tawa Conteh informed the house that because of the sensitivity of the matter and for a whole government official to admit of typographical errors on a document that has in fact plugged Gento Group of Companies into misery.
The speaker said five million old Leone salary deduction of Kemokai Fatorma must be made.
Kemokai Fatorma is the assistant director at fiscal risk management unit. His salary was to be deducted for failing to providing pertinent information to the ASSL as prescribed by the Audit Service Act.
The Deputy Speaker further said Mr Kemokai was just engaging in copying and pasting of documents in the Ministry of Finance, warning that documents that have to do with the State should be thoroughly scrutinized.
He also highlighted how the committee would take stringent actions and those actions would be communicated to the ministry and members of the public after the investigations.
The Deputy Opposition Leader Hon. Aaron Koroma also asked Mr Kemokai to tender a statement indicating the typo errors made while entering codes for the Gento Group of Companies.
Morie Lansana from ASSL slammed heavily Mr Kemokai over the mistakes he had made that led the Auditor General’s Report to conclude in 2022, accusing Gento Group of Companies of ‘double-dipping’ (financial improbity).
Registering her disappointment, the CEO, Mohamed Gento Kamara, said he was happy that he had been cleared by the PAC in parliament.
Adding that how the Auditors portrayed his company is a different story all together.
He therefore encouraged government institutions to do the right thing in their offices in order to avoid defaming people who are committed to pushing development.
