The Public Accounts Committee presently investigating grave and indescribable alleged corruption unearthed by the Special Technical Audit Report has come under stern criticism from the general public for allegedly granting blanket amnesty to former MPs and Ministers that received donations from SALCAB and NATCOM as reported in one of our local tabloids.

This, they say, clearly goes against the spirit, letter and declared intention of President Bio’s Zero Tolerance to corruption good governance policy and his government and the ACC’s anathema for corruption in all its manifest forms both in the public and private sector.

The DFID funded Special Technical audit carried out on four sectors- telecommunications, civil works, energy and social security revealed that, over one billion dollars was alleged to have been embezzled in just three years from 2015 to 2018 during the former President Koroma led APC government.

The audit conducted by both local and international auditors from Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania detected that huge sums of public monies were siphoned from various institutions including SALCAB in different forms, and most of which are monies to be refunded.

Amongst the names mentioned were former parliamentarians and ministers that received monies in the form of donations from SALCAB and NATCOM amounting to over Le7Billion.

It’s no secret that, some former MPs and ministers walked brazenly to SALCAB and requested funds for their personal use.

Whilst the news is yet to be officially confirmed that, billions of Leones were illegally donated to MPs and ministers, the general public has lambasted the committee for what they describe as selective justice, since they had offered blanket amnesty to their colleague Parliamentarians and former ministers, irrespective of the money involved, and prosecute others who do not have such connections.

In a no nonsense mood, stating that, they are prepared to punish President Bio and his government severely in the 2023 elections if his party officials in parliament dare to engage in such clear travesty of the nation’s desire to see corruption exposed, prosecuted and the proceeds of the enterprise recovered to the state and the people, as avowed by the ACC’s Commissioner.

Hence, the people are calling on both President Bio and the ACC Commissioner to take a keen interest in this particular matter, as President Bio has repeatedly told the nation that corruption is a national concern and a security threat; why should MPs start to condone it in any shape or form?