29/05/2025
JUSTICE AIAH SIMEON ALLIEU
…JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF APPEAL
The House of Parliament filled to the brim last Thursday 22nd May 2025 approved the Hon. Justice Aiah Simeon Allieu and two other Judges: Hon Justice Dr. Abou Bhakarr Binneh Kamara and Hon. Justice Alfred Tommy Ganda following their appointment by President Bio 30th April this year after being recommended by the Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) for their diligence to service and humanity in conformity with the law.
Additionally on that same day five other well revered Magistrates: Mr. Mark Ngegba, Madam. Isata Sellu-Tucker, Madam. Josephine Feimata Hinga, Mr. Santigie Ibrahim Sorie Bangura and Mr. Sahr Elogima Kekura, and two other legal practitioners: Ms. Khalila Diana Kamara, and
Mr. Andrew Samuel Curtis Johnson, were also approved.
These nominees having gone through rigorous scrutiny by the Committee on Appointment and the Public Service were presented to the Members of Parliament by the Leader of Government Business in Parliament Hon. Mathew Nyuma for approval.
The Honourable Members in consenting to their approval made valuable comments on each nominee touching on their swift responsiveness to duty as displayed during the interview session.
After a plethora of compliment, the House unanimously approved the nominees to their various positions, and the gracious Honourable Speaker of Parliament Hon. Solomon Segepore Thomas acknowledged the nominees and urged them to continue their diligent service to humanity and maintaining the tenet of the law.
Justice Aiah Simeon Allieu
The Honourable Justice (Mr) Aiah Simeon Allieu was called to the Bar on 5th October 2001. A lawyer of long standing experience and repute and former member of the Sierra Leone Bar Association over 17 years’ experience with the Law Officers Department. He has served as Pupil State Counsel, State Counsel, Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel and Acting Customary Law Officer or the North, South and Eastern Provinces of Sierra Leone.
He has participated in several conferences in and out of Sierra Leone notably UNITAR Fellowship programme in International Law (The Hague), Prosecution capacity building in West Africa (Institute of Criminology, Sydney Law School, Australia 2012), Regional Training for Judges and State Attorneys on International Criminal Law and implications in West Africa (Cote D”voire 2006), Sub Regional State Attorneys Training Programm on Environmental Law UNEP ( Gigiri Avenue Nairobi, 2004) Train the Trainers Course on Teaching Methods and the Law and Procedure of International Assistance Accra, Ghana. International Counter Ransomware Conference October, 2024 (White House Washington DC).
His educational background both in the formal and extra-curricular sectors has provided him with a wealth of knowledge and experience that has earned him a good reputation in the administration of justice throughout his legal practice and as a renowned educationalist in various institutions in Sierra Leone. He has served as an Examiner for the West African Examination Council and a Founder member of the University of Makeni (UniMak). He has also served as a member of Court, University of Sierra Leone from 2018-2021. He is presently a member of the Committee of Judges appointed by the present Chief Justice to oversee the operations of the Local Court. Which are presently under the Judiciary. He is a member of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Cyber Crime, Sierra Leone.
His formal education after leaving school runs from 1992, when he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree General (Division II), Fourah Bay College, through Post Graduate Diploma in Education in 1993, to Bachelor of Law with Honours LLB (Hons) Fourah Bay College in 1998, unto his call to the Bar in 2001, to present as Justice of the High Court of Sierra Leone, and now approved as Justice of the Court of Appeal.
During his tenure as High Court Judge, he has worked in all divisions of the High Court where he has successfully handed a good number of Anti-Corruption cases, Civil matters especially Chieftaincy Petitions and General Criminal cases.
Justice Allieu is presently representing the Judiciary in the Nationwide Consultative Conference relating to the reversion of the Local Courts to the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development
The ceremony was greasily graced by His Lordship, the Hon. Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Hon. Justice (Mr.) Komba Kamanda, the erstwhile Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards, a huge caravan of legal luminaries, the Law Officer Departments of Sierra Leone led the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), members of the Court Reporters, Press Gallery, family members, supports and well wishers
