Echoes of KoromaGovernment lawyers are understood to justify Maada Bio's removal of the Auditor-General from her post by citing President Koroma's summary dismissal of his vice-president Samuel Sam-Sumana in 2015 which Africa Confidential covered extensively at the time (AC Vol 56 No 19 Court rescues Koroma & Vol 56 No 6 Koroma lashes out)...
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Foreigners got to know his name in November 2011 when Al Jazeera television filmed Konteh taking $2 000 in cash from an undercover reporter in Freetown and demanding another $50 000 for access to then Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana (AC Vol 53 No 16 Vice-President in loan row & Vol 53 No 17 The case against Sam-Sumana)...
An example came when he sacked his Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana in 2015 and appointed Victor Bockarie Foh in his place although the constitution does not permit on the principle of the separation of powers a president to sack a vice-president allowing only parliament that power (AC Vol 56 No 6 Koroma lashes out)...
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Turnout keyVoter turnout made the difference: up in areas that voted for Bio in large numbers down in APC strongholds and allowing the SLPP to scoop up most of the first-round votes in Kono that went for Samuel Sam-Sumana whom the APC expelled in 2015...
Vol 59 No 6 |
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Another new party the Coalition for Change headed by former Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana secured just over 3% mostly from his home district of Kono denying the APC and SLPP a boost from that swing district...
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Into this already keen contest has emerged with much fanfare Samuel Sam-Sumana whose dismissal by the President in 2015 was rubber-stamped by the courts (AC Vol 56 No 6 Koroma lashes out)...
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Friend of FohKoroma is now said to favour Victor Foh the Vice-President whom he was accused of appointing unconstitutionally after dismissing his predecessor Samuel Sam-Sumana in 2013 (AC Vol 56 No 19 Court rescues Koroma)...
Vol 57 No 7 |
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The constitution already states that only parliament can remove either the President or his deputy from office but the Supreme Court upheld Koroma's sacking of Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana in a widely-disputed judgement last September (AC Vol 56 No 19 Court rescues Koroma)...
Vol 56 No 19 |
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In a decision mourned in Freetown's legal and political circles alike the Supreme Court has ruled that President Ernest Bai Koroma did indeed have the power to sack his deputy Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana and appoint a successor last March (AC Vol 56 No 6 Koroma lashes out)...
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A full explanation of why Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana was summarily removed from office in March has just emerged...
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Vol 56 No 6 |
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President Ernest Bai Koroma has removed Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana from office even though he does not apparently have the powers to do so...