Section 9: Using influence for contracts.

(1) Any person who, whether in Sierra Leone or elsewhere, offers an advantage to a public officer as aninducement or reward for or on account of such public officer giving assistance or using influence, or having given assistance or used influence in— a. the promotion, execution, or procuring of any contract or subcontract with a public body for the provision of any service, the doing of anything or the supplying of any article, material or substance; or b. the payment of the price, consideration or other moneys stipulated or otherwise provided for in any contract or subcontract referred to in paragraph (a) (2) any public officer who, whether in Sierra Leone or elsewhere, solicits or accepts any advantage as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of his giving assistance or using influence or having given assistance or used influence in— a. the promotion, execution or procuring for; or b. the payment of the price, consideration or other moneys stipulated or otherwise provided for in, any such contract or subcontract as is referred to in subsection (1), is guilty of an offence.