By Ophaniel Gooding
In just a few days, the much-anticipated resumption of the case against former President Ernest Koroma is set to unfold. Facing allegations of treason, the ex-president recently underwent medical treatment in Nigeria and is anticipated to make his court appearance for the proceedings scheduled on Tuesday March 6.
Koroma, was President from 2007 to 2018, had received permission from judicial authorities to spend a maximum of three months in Nigeria for medical treatment.
The former president has been charged with four offenses including treason for his alleged role in a failed military attempt to topple the government on the 26th of November last year.
Koroma was granted bail when the court indicted him on January 3 this year and has since been confined to his home in the capital Freetown from where he was allowed to leave for treatment in Nigeria.
Speculations are however rife that the former president may not come back soon. Given the interventions of the President Macky Sall of Senegal, Nana Akufour Addo of Ghana and Tinubu of Nigeria along with the AU who acknowledged his release but said nothing about his “medical treatment.
