Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio suspended a cabinet minister on Sunday for allegedly threatening to kill troublemakers, after a recent spate of violent incidents in the West African state...
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio suspended a cabinet minister on Sunday for allegedly threatening to kill troublemakers, after a recent spate of violent incidents in the West African state.
Bio’s office said in a statement that it had suspended Abu Abu Koroma — a minister for Sierra Leone’s northern province, an opposition stronghold — for “unacceptable conduct and public remarks”. “We will kill you if death is what you prefer,” Koroma appears to say in the video, speaking in a mixture of Themne and Krio.
On Saturday, Bio gave a televised address accusing members of the opposition All People’s Congress party of being behind Sierra Leone’s recent violent flare-ups.
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