{"id":100542,"date":"2015-03-18T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=100542"},"modified":"2015-03-18T16:42:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:42:40","slug":"vice-president-of-sierra-leone-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=100542","title":{"rendered":"Vice President of Sierra Leone sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has sacked his Vice president, Samuel Sam Sumana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was announced in a press release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;GqELRKTX3yseW8UMfUZmamQrxfB3hCnn&#8221;]The president in the press release said he took the decision based on section 41b act 6 of their 1991 Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He continued to state that the name of another vice president will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samuel Sam-Sumana was last week expelled from the ruling party, All People\u2019s Congress, for several reasons including allegations that he presented a fake Master\u2019s degree certificate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has also been accused of \u201corchestrating political violence\u201d and trying to form a new party in his home district of Kono.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sierra Leone Veep seeks asylum in US embassy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samuel Sam-Sumana on March 14, sought political asylum from the United States embassy after soldiers reportedly circled his residence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He\u00a0told the AP news agency by phone that he didn\u2019t \u201cfeel safe&#8230;as vice-president\u201d and revealed that he had spoken to US Ambassador John Hoover and was waiting for a response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has sacked his Vice president, Samuel Sam Sumana. This was announced in a press release. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;GqELRKTX3yseW8UMfUZmamQrxfB3hCnn&#8221;]The president in the press release said he took the decision based on section 41b act 6 of their 1991 Constitution. He continued to state that the name of another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":100543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-100542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}