Attorney General Responds to APC’s Osman Timbo Over Publication of Constitutional Amendment Bill

The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Alpha Sesay, has responded to concerns raised by Hon. Osman Abdal Timbo regarding compliance with constitutional procedures in the processing of the Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the Attorney-General disclosed that he had formally dispatched a response to Timbo’s letter. He further noted that since the lawmaker had published his correspondence on social media—tagging him in the process—he considered it appropriate, in the spirit of openness and accountability, to also make public copies of the Bill as published in two issues of the Government Gazette.
The development follows a formal letter written by Timbo to the Attorney-General’s Office, in which the Member of Parliament questioned whether the constitutional requirement for publication had been fully satisfied prior to the Bill’s first reading in Parliament.

According to the Attorney-General, the Gazette publications were made pursuant to Section 108(2)(a) of the Constitution of Sierra Leone and were provided by the Government Printer. He emphasized that sharing the documents publicly reflects his office’s commitment to transparency and public accountability.