Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has suspended civil servants who were implicated in a graft report.
Those suspended include the Minister of Agriculture Dennis Vandi and the secretary to the vice-president, Baba Fortune.
The graft report by a special commission of inquiry implicated several former and current civil servants in the theft of public funds.
Minister Vandi has said he is innocent and was never given an opportunity to defend himself by the commission of inquiry.
All those implicated have been given three months to appeal.
Several former ministers and officials have been banned from leaving the country over their alleged role in corruption.
The former president, Ernest Bai Koroma, is on the list of 102 people implicated in graft scandals that was published by the Sierra Leone Telegraph.
President Bio has pledged to recover funds allegedly misappropriated by his predecessor.
Source: bbc.com