The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Francis Ben Kaifala Esq. has been acknowledged and honored as one of many Most Influential Leaders on the Continent throughout the fifth Annual Edition of the 100 Most influential Leaders in Africa.
The award and ceremony, which is organized by the Pan African Youth Leadership Foundation, is about to carry on the 14th April, 2023 on the British Council, Accra, Ghana.
Francis Ben Kaifala’s recognition can’t be unconnected with the revolutionary management he has continued to offer within the marketing campaign towards corruption, one of many world’s most insidious plagues out and in of Sierra Leone.
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Francis Ben Kaifala is the present Commissioner (Head) of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of the Republic of Sierra Leone. He is the President of the Network of Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa (NACIWA) and an elected Board Member of the African Union Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC). He lectures part-time Commercial Law at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.
The younger Commissioner got here into workplace in June, 2018 with a strong educational {and professional} background as a lawyer, and promised a strong battle towards corruption. True to his promise, rapid steps have been taken aimed toward fulfilling the above promise and the outcomes have been outstanding and distinctive. At the time he took over, Sierra Leone was performing very badly in all international indexes on corruption. For occasion, Sierra Leone was in a failing place of 49% within the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Control of Corruption Scorecard.
Under his management, the nation moved to a decent move of 71% in 2018, an additional 79% in 2019, 81% in 2020 and a very good 83% in 2021. This has made Sierra Leone move that Scorecard 4 years back-to-back for the primary time in its historical past and has been chosen for the Multi-Million (*100*) US Government’s Compact award. Today, Sierra Leone is among the high ten performers within the Lower Income nations – an indication of dedication to controlling corruption over a interval of 4 years since he grew to become commissioner.
Moreover, Sierra Leone has registered its highest ever scores because the institution of the Transparency International Corruption Perception Survey – Sierra Leone scored thirty-four (34) – in comparison with the nation’s stagnant rating of thirty (30) factors within the previous three years to his appointment (2016, 2017, and 2018); and jumped 15 locations upward from 130 in 2017 to 129 in 2018, 119 in 2019, 117 in 2020, and now ranks 115 in 2022 within the TI’s Global Country Rankings. The nation’s newest scores within the final two years eclipsed the typical scores for sub-Saharan Africa for 2 years in a row for the primary time ever.
Similarly, in accordance with the Afro Barometer survey 2020, corruption prevalence in Sierra Leone has decreased from 70% in 2015 to 40% in 2020.
Commissioner Francis Ben Kaifala has launched far-reaching reforms in making certain accountability in public life. The new reforms he promulgated and spearheaded are believed to be among the many strongest anti-corruption legislative reforms in Africa.
Under the Non-Conviction Based Asset Recovery, the Anti-Corruption Commission has recovered over Le35,000,000,000.00 (Thirty-Five Billion Leones) in lower than 3 years – which represents greater than twice all recoveries ever made by the ACC in its 18 years prior existence mixed earlier than his ascendency into workplace. He has additionally launched the Special Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court, with state-of-the-art paraphernalia and sources to solely attempt corruption circumstances which have resulted in a really excessive fee of convictions for corruption. He additionally launched the Fourth Generational National Anti-Corruption Strategy which is rated “very strong” and is believed to have the best blueprint for efficient corruption management in Sierra Leone.
Francis Ben Kaifala’s mannequin for the battle towards corruption, his fearlessness, tenacity and daring approaches have helped place the nation on the agency path to constantly and sustainably management corruption; and units a brand new trajectory for accountability, efficient service supply, democratic good governance and transformative improvement. This distinctive management and outcomes have introduced him a number of native and worldwide awards or recognition together with being honored by the Department of State of the United State of America as considered one of 12 “International Anti-corruption Champions” in February, 2021.
He was additionally named in 2021 as considered one of “100 Most Influential People of African Descent” by the UN/MIPAD Initiative amongst dozens of others.
Francis Ben Kaifala holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone and was referred to as to the Sierra Leone Bar in 2007 having handed the Sierra Leone Law School Bar Examinations because the “Star Pupil”. Francis holds the LLM in Law and Economics from Queen Mary University of London. He can also be alumnus of the celebrated Fulbright Program and graduated with the LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law and International Human Rights on the University of Texas at Austin within the US. He was Human Rights Scholar on the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Centre for Human Rights and Justice in Austin, Texas and an Obama Fellow.