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schema:articleBody	Supporters of Sierra Leone's ex-president blocked anti-graft investigators from quizzing him in the northern city of Makeni on Thursday, erecting roadblocks to obstruct their path. Investigators are seeking to interview former president Ernest Bai Koroma after a probe found that funds worth tens of millions of dollars from his time in office remain unaccounted for. Julius Maada Bio, the West African state's current president, pledged last month to claw back misappropriated funds. But protesters in Makeni -- where the interview was meant to occur -- erected roadblocks on Thursday, chanting slogans and toting pro-Koroma placards. Francis Ben Kaifala, the head of the anti-corruption commission, tweeted on Thursday that people had "hijacked the highway to prevent us from interviewing former president Koroma". It was not immediately clear whether the anti-corruption committee postponed the interview, however. The commission had already pushed the date of its meeting back from Monday, after deciding to hold it outside the capital Freetown for security reasons. Koroma tweeted on Thursday that he wanted the meeting with investigators to go ahead "by all possible peaceful means". Members of his All Peoples Congress party have previously dismissed the allegations against the ex-president as a "witch-hunt," however. President Bio opened an anti-graft inquiry into Koroma last year, after winning elections against him in 2018 on promises to tackle corruption. The probe examined allegations of corruption as well as stolen public funds and state assets between 2007 and 2018. It ended in March by implicating Koroma as well as several former ministers. Sierra Leone boasts huge mineral and diamond deposits, but it remains one of the world's poorest nations, still recovering from decades of war and disease. sb/eml/lc
schema:headline	Sierra Leone protesters block ex-president's graft hearing
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schema:datePublished	2020-10-08 (xsd:date)
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