May 11, 2021
By: Aruna Kamara (Bo)
Senior Public Education Officer of the Anti-Corruption Commission in the Southern Region, Abdulai Saccoh, has disclosed that they intervened in ensuring that the monies due the newly recruited inspectors of Schools are paid during their training in Bo.
He was reacting to questions relating to the position of the Commission about the Inspector of schools who was alleged to have been defrauded while training in Bo by the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education.
According to him, the inspectors of schools where undergoing the training on how to ride motorcycle as they were also entitled to certain money; whereas the education ministry did not informed them about their entitlements they became uneasy as they received the information.
“We came to realize that the actual money which they were supposed to get was not given them and what we did was to intervene by contacting the Ministry of Basic Education and the right information was given and we asked them to go strictly by the information given to us,” Mr. Saccoh said.
Mr. Saccoh discloses that “three hundred thousand Leones should be given to them on a daily basis, rather seventy thousand Leones was given to them, and when we intervene the ministry went strictly by information we received.”
He continued that as a commission they are committed to educating the public not be involved in corruption and they should join the ACC to stop corruption in the country.
Some of the Inspectors of School in a telephone interview thanked the ACC for their intervention to ensuring that the ministry fully gave them their entitlement, adding that everybody in the country needs to join on the band wagon to fight against the cankerworm(Corruption) that has eaten into the fabric of ‘Mama Salone.’