Aïssatou Boiro
Aïssatou Boiro (1954 – 2012) was a Guinean civil servant from Koundara. She was assassinated by armed men in Conakry on 9 November 2012. Four of her killers received life sentences in 2019. Career Boiro was appointed National Director of the State Treasury of the Republic of Guinea by a decree of President Alpha Condé at the beginning of 2012. Aïssatou Boiro played a decisive role in dismantling a network which held around 13 billion Guinean francs (about 1.5 million euros) in May 2012. A number of employees of the Ministry of Finance, the State Treasury and the Central Bank were arrested. She was described as a courageous and incorruptible woman of integrity seeking to put an end to corruption in the higher echelons of the state. Boiro received death threats, but she received no special protection. She had just her driver with her (and no guards) when she was killed. Response "She is dead because she refused any compromise between the public interest and the sordid intere ...
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