The Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Trade and Industry, Hon. Veronica K. Sesay, has said the committee will involve the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in the matter surrounding the joint agreement between Accord Logistics and its Chief Executive Officer, Johnny Kosa, from the inception of the partnership to the present.
She disclosed that the committee is concerned about the lack of proper auditing of the accounts and the use of a personal account instead of a joint account, which was part of the agreement.
Hon. Sesay made the statement on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at Committee Room No. 1, Parliament Building, Tower Hill, Freetown. She further explained that the committee would compile its findings into a report and table it before Parliament for plenary deliberation.
She added that members of the committee had unanimously mandated Chief Executive Officer Johnny Kosa to pay the outstanding ten months’ salaries owed to the General Manager, Deputy General Manager, Director of Marketing, Office Assistant, and Matrix Security personnel within twenty-four hours. The committee also ordered Kosa to submit the financial accounts of both Accord Logistics and the Sierra Leone State Lottery Company, warning that failure to comply would attract serious consequences.
According to Hon. Sesay, Johnny Kosa must understand that the State Lottery is the property of Sierra Leoneans. She noted that the building was constructed with taxpayers’ money and that the agreement was a joint venture, meaning all decisions and financial matters should involve both parties. She questioned how the account was opened with Kosa as the sole signatory.
Earlier in the meeting, the committee requested several documents, including staff records of Accord Logistics, which Kosa failed to present. The committee also demanded tax payment records from 2022 to 2025, but Kosa submitted only those for 2024 and 2025. He further presented a fraud document allegedly from State House, which the committee observed was not signed.
Hon. Wuyatta Songa questioned Kosa on why the General Manager and other staff had not been paid. Kosa informed the committee that the General Manager, Deputy Manager, and others were in court over alleged misappropriation. He said they had told him they were not answerable to him but to His Excellency, and that they were collecting rent without his knowledge.
Hon. Songa then asked whether the court had issued an injunction for their salaries to be withheld, or whether Kosa had informed the National Privatization Commission (NPC) about their actions. Kosa responded in the negative. He also claimed that the building from which rent was being collected belonged to Accord Logistics.
Hon. Songa, however, strongly maintained that the building belongs to the State Lottery and not Accord Logistics. She stated that Kosa had no right to withhold salaries, noting that the affected workers have families to care for and had gone ten months without pay.
Meanwhile, Gbessay Alpha from the National Privatization Commission told the committee that there was a time when Kosa attempted to change the signatory at UBA, but the bank and the NPC had to intervene.
