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The lead lawyer to former President Koroma, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, has revealed that his client is innocent of the four count charges of treason related offences. He stated that they would “fight the case, that has now been adjourned to 17 January, 2024, come rain or shine”.
Kamara noted his client has so far been grilled for 40 hours, since he was invited from Makeni on 27, November, 2023. But in all these interrogating hours, “nothing substantially indicting was found against him, but only questions like do you know your former and current bodyguards like Leader Booth and others, which he replied “ yes”.
He went further, knowing these people do not necessarily establish link to the November 26 attempted coup, _which the former President condemned in a press release “.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Information, Chernoh Bah, has confirmed the government’s rejection of ECOWAS’ request for a political asylum for the former President in Nigeria, stating that the ECOWAS letter is “a correspondence that did not bear the collective consensus of the commission “.
The former President is back at his private residence at Goderich, as he was granted bail on self recognition as a former President, despite being charged for treason.
The case has been adjourned to 17 January 2024.