{"id":97381,"date":"2015-03-07T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=97381"},"modified":"2015-03-07T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:10:00","slug":"sierra-leones-ruling-party-expels-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/sierra-leones-ruling-party-expels-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone’s ruling party expels Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sierra Leone’s Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been expelled from the ruling party, the national broadcaster reported late Friday.<\/p>\n
The announcement came as Sam-Sumana was one week into a self-imposed 3-week quarantine, following the death of one of his body guards of Ebola.<\/p>\n
The broadcaster reported that according to the Constitution Sumana remains vice president of the country.<\/p>\n
The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation made the announcement late Friday after a meeting of the National Advisory Council of the ruling party, the All Peoples Congress.<\/p>\n
According to the broadcast news item, Sam-Sumana was expelled for several reasons including allegations that he presented a fake Master’s degree certificate and that he was involved in the formation of a new political party.<\/p>\n
Sam-Sumana did not immediately respond to his expulsion from the party or the allegations against him.<\/p>\n
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Source: nytimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sierra Leone’s Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been expelled from the ruling party, the national broadcaster reported late Friday. The announcement came as Sam-Sumana was one week into a self-imposed 3-week quarantine, following the death of one of his body guards of Ebola. The broadcaster reported that according to the Constitution Sumana remains vice president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":97382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"yoast_head":"\n