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By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The Executive of the Bike Riders Union (BRU), Government officials, and officers from the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) and the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority have discussed strategies related to Conflict Prevention and Frontline Negotiations.

The event which was hosted by UNDP at the Bintumani Hotel in Freetown on the 14^th of June, 2024 is part of the Youth Bike Riders’ Peace Building Funded (PBF) project.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Following investigations done by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, the Gento Group of Companies has been exonerated of accusation in the Auditor General’s Report that it received double payments.

The committee on the 11th June 2024 found that there was a typographical error in the information given to the auditors by the Deputy Director of Finance at the Ministry of Finance Kemokai Fatorma who was then asked to apologize.   

By Mabinty M. Kamara in Moyamba  

Farmers in Moyamba district, Southern Sierra Leone have commended the Sierra Leone Meteorological Agency and its partners for timely information on the weather conditions to ensure effective planting and improved crop yields.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Following months of investigation, the Anti-Corruption Commission has referred the case of suspended Clerk of the Sierra Leone Parliament, Umar Paran Tarawally’s to President Julius Maada Bio for ‘appropriate administrative action’.

By Saio Marrah

Research conducted by the Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) between 14 and 17 June this year, has indicated that political tensions in Sierra Leone have led to an increase in hypertension and other related diseases.

The mixed method research according to the researchers was conducted by surveying of 1,000 Sierra Leoneans from all five provincial headquarters on the current political climate and its potential effects on the respondents’ wellbeing.

By Saio Marrah

A battery of lawyers representing 11 out of 12 accused persons in the ongoing treason trial, have in their individual oral no-case submissions argued that the state prosecution has failed to produce evidence to prove that their clients committed treason and other offences.

Oral no-case submissions were made on Tuesday 18 June, 2024, on behalf of the first accused, Amadu Koita Makalo, Bai Mahmoud Bangura, eighth accused and Tamba Yamba the tenth accused.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

The University of Sierra Leone (USL) has in a public notice dated 14th June 2024 stated that  a committee established to investigate  alleged financial, administrative and procurement “irregularities” at the university since June 2018 to 31st January 2024,  has commenced its work.