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A former bodyguard of Sierra Leone’s ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma, Amadu Koita Makalo, has been sentenced to 182 years in prison for his role in a failed coup last year.<\/em><\/p>\n Makalo, a former soldier, was found guilty of treason, murder, and shooting with intent to murder, alongside 10 others.<\/p>\n According to local newspaper Awoko, the judge remarked during sentencing, “The purpose of this sentence is to serve as a deterrent for people to know that coups or attempted coups to overthrow any legitimate…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A former bodyguard of Sierra Leone’s ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma, Amadu Koita Makalo, has been sentenced to 182 years in prison for his role in a failed coup last year. Makalo, a former soldier, was found guilty of treason, murder, and shooting with intent to murder, alongside 10 others. According to local newspaper Awoko, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[49150,258,256,10690,9645,22204,3835,12175,9281,9920,257,5115,1135,34116,254,4375],"class_list":["post-177332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-182yrs","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bags","tag-bai","tag-bodyguard","tag-coup","tag-expresident","tag-failed","tag-koromas","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-sleone","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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