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Sorry - this page has been removed. Sierra Leone vice-president seeks asylum from US amid political trouble
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This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. Sierra Leone’s vice-president, Samuel Sam-Sumana, said on Saturday he had requested asylum at the US embassy in Freetown after soldiers surrounded his home following his expulsion from the ruling party this month.
Sam-Sumana was expelled from president Ernest Bai Koroma’s All People’s Congress party after an investigation accused him of creating his own rival political movement, leaving doubt over whether he could continue as vice-president.
For further information, please contact: “I have fled my house and am with my wife in a place I cannot disclose, waiting to hear from the US ambassador, whom I have asked for asylum,” Sam-Sumana told Reuters.
A source at the US embassy, who did not wish to be named, said Sam-Sumana had entered the building. It was not immediately possible to confirm that officially.
A government spokesman, Abdulai Bayraytay, who said he was travelling with Bai Koroma in northern Sierra Leone, declined to comment.
In late February, Sam-Sumana said he was placing himself in a 21-day quarantine after one of his bodyguards died of Ebola amid a surge in new infections in the West African country.