Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma was on Thursday officially invited by the country’s Police, to provide information on the failed coup.
The country’s Information Minister, Chernoh Bah, revealed the information to newsmen on Thursday, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
The invitation is premised on the link of his close bodyguards, particularly Leatherboot, even before he assumed the office of the president for 11 years, between 2007 and 2018.
According to the police, they want to establish whether there was an organic link between the former President and his three military bodyguards apprehended, with Leatherboot already killed.
The former President had earlier dissociated himself by issuing a strongly worded statement condemning the coup attempt and expressed shock at the death of his military guard at his Goderich private residence.
The former President has been living in his hometown in Makeni in Northern Sierra Leone.
His Party, All Peoples Congress, had also earlier condemned the coup attempt in a press statement.
The invitation today of Koroma is widely seen as the epic of the ongoing investigations to unearth the immediate and remote causes of the 26, November failed coup, with 60 people arrested, 21 dead, with 14 military personnel who were buried yesterday.