
Bodyguard of Sierra Leone’s ex-leader jailed over failed coup
A former bodyguard of Sierra Leone’s ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma has been found guilty of treason and sentenced alongside 10 others over a failed coup last year.
Amadu Koita Makalo, who is also a former soldier, was sentenced to 182 years in prison on charges of treason, murder and shooting with intent to murder.
The charges followed attacks by gunmen on a military barracks and prisons last November.
Makalo, who was widely followed on social networks where he criticised the government, was accused of being among the organisers of the coup plot.
During his sentencing on Monday, a judge remarked that the former presidential bodyguard had shown no remorse throughout the trial, local newspaper Awoko reported.
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