By Ida N’dey Williams, Legal Practitioner, OJPLegal Introduction The 1991 Constitution of the Republic of Sierra Leone established three branches of government – legislative, executive, and judicial – to maintain a system of checks and balances and prevent any one branch from gaining excessive power over the others (Staff, 2021). The executive branch, led by […]
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