Lara Taylor-Pearce

When Sierra Leone's parliament returns from recess on 31 October one of the first orders of business will be to ratify President Julius Maada Bio's endorsement of the removal of the respected Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce...

Tribunal report buries audit service in a shallow grave When President Julius Maada Bio clashed with Lara Taylor-Pearce three years ago over the finances of his emergency medical trip to Beirut the then Chief Minister JJ Saffa and then Chief Justice Babatunde Edwards convinced him that a legal case against the awkward Auditor-General could be made according to sources in Freetown...

Maada Bio suspended the highly respected Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce in November in a move that dismayed civil society supporters of good governance...

Bio's handlers make a drama out of a medical crisis The everyday tensions between Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce's Audit Service of Sierra Leone (ASSL) and the government turned to open war when she began to probe President Julius Maada Bio's visit to Lebanon on 27 August 2020 insiders told Africa Confidential...

They used as a starting point the reports of the Office of the Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce which in January 2015 documented that 30% of 84 billion leones ($9...

Until a few months ago Conteh was coordinator of the National Ebola Response Centre whose incompetent and corrupt handling of the Ebola crisis has been detailed in two reports by the Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce...

Now however the role of governments has come under the spotlight especially in Sierra Leone where the indefatigable Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce produced several reports on the handling of the crisis...

Another audit in process is likely to uncover more malfeasance and the talk in Freetown is that the indefatigable Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce who origianlly uncovered the ambulance contract is under intense pressure to tone down her findings...

Freetown's redoubtable Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce has struck again publishing a damning report on the misuse of public funds between May when the Ebola epidemic broke out and October (AC Vol 56 No 2 The politics of Ebola)...

Government departments have just been the subject of blistering criticism in the latest report on public finances by Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce covering the year 2013 just prior to the Ebola outbreak...

The malaise at the heart of the public administration has also been amply detailed by the report of the Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce into public finances for 2011 (AC Vol 54 Nos 6 Groans about growth & Vol 54 No 19 Millions diverted in 2012)...

In Sierra Leone revelations by the Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce of extreme laxity in government financial controls and vanished funds have come and gone without government action (AC Vol 54 No 6 Unhealthy finances)...