Desmond Babatunde Edwards

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...

Two members of the APC were arrested and detained without charge which the Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards ruled as justifiable under the state of emergency and when court sittings had been suspended...