The legal team of suspended Transport and Aviation minister Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay has vigorously denied a rumour circulating in and out of the country stating that he has 650,000 United States dollars in a London account.
The denial was contained in a press release sent to the Patriotic Vanguard by the legal team headed by lawyer Ajibola Manly Spain. The press release states:
"The legal team of Mr. Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay views with dismay the several false, baseless and unfounded articles currently being peddled in the press most especially the story carried by ‘Standard Times Newspaper’ on Friday 8th August 2008 to wit “$650,000 in Kemoh Sesay’s London Account”.
The press is urged to come forward with any evidence implicating Mr. Sesay to aid the police in their investigations.
Our client reserves his rights to take legal action against all such newspapers.
MR. IBRAHIM KEMOH SESAY’S LEGAL TEAM."
Other sources close to the suspended minister also denied that the Attorney General interfered in the interrogation process of Kemoh Sesay. One of the sources offered this explanation:
"Kemoh was relieved of his office on Monday 8/4 and on Tuesday 8/5 he started making a voluntary cautioned statement to the police at the investigation HQ at 2pm.
It lasted until 9pm. On Wednesday 9/5 he continued from 12 noon until 7pm. He was then put on police bail pending the completion of the investigation AND THE FILE BEING SENT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE for an assessment of the evidence for and against him. It is a lie that the Hon AG has been stifling the investigation or that State House has been doing so."
Kemoh Sesay (photo) found himself under very intense media scrutiny since a plane full of cocaine forcibly landed at Sierra Leone’s Lungi international airport a couple of weeks ago. As minister of Transport he carried most of the blame for the occurrence. Things got worse for him when it turned out that his brother is one of the people arrested and detained as suspects. Many Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad called for his immediate dismissal.
Kemoh has strenously denied any involvement in the cocaine scandal but president Koroma recently asked him to step aside as minister while the investigations continue, implying that he will regain his post if found innocent.
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