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Government frees 98 former junta officials

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    President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has ordered the release of 98 former Armed Forces Revolutionary Council officials (AFRC) and collaborators, Sierra Leone Information Minister Julius Spencer told IRIN on Monday.

    The prisoners were jailed for their role in the military junta, which replaced Kabbah's government for nine months, until its eviction from power by ECOMOG in February 1998.

    Those pardoned include the former president, Joseph Momoh. He was serving a 10-year prison sentence on conspiracy charges. Another was Manley Spain, the junta's attorney-general. In the Lome agreement signed by the government and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) on 7 July, the government pardoned all combatants and their collaborators.

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