Detained journalist Dr Tam Baryoh has instructed his lawyers to pursue dialogue as the means to dealing with the issue of his arrest and detention allegedly on “Executive Detention Orders.”
Kenema gets Ebola survivors’ association
By Mohamed Vandi
Survivors of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease in the eastern district of tow of Kenema, with cumulative confirmed cases of 490 as at 5 October, have formed an association to promote their interests.
The founder of “Ebola Survivors’ Association”, Bai Bai Kamara, said the initiative was to cater for the welfare of all discharged Ebola survivors who “are being marginalized and neglected.”
ACC probes Ebola payment
By Mohamed Vandi
Anti-Corruption Commission, ACC, is investigating the finance officer of the District Health Management Team, DHMTin Bo, Obai Koroma, for alleged fraud in the ongoing payment of allowances to staff and volunteers of the anti-Ebola campaign.
On the 20October this year, three senior officials stormed the offices of the DHMT, forcefully entered the office of the finance officer and took away his payment vouchers. The incident happened in the full view of journalists and members of civil society.
Chiefdom speaker flouts Ebola bye-law
By Mohamed T. Massaquoi
Police chief in Pujehun has confirmed that he ordered the arrest of Chiefdom Speaker of Malen, Robert Moigua “because he violated bye-laws related to safe burials which are now in force all over the country.”
The Local Unit Commander, Chief Superintendent Nathaniel Brewah, said security personnel found a corpse being prepared for burial at the residence of the local authority.
Koroma blames Ebola on attitudes
By Crispina Cummings
In a meeting with community leaders on November 4 in Freetown President Ernest Bai Koroma blamed Ebola on attitudes and behaviours, saying “people are still in denial and are burying dead people at night.”
He said people’s attitudes needed to change for the country to contain the Ebola disease, adding that attitudinal problems were the biggest challenges facing the fight against the scourge.
APC vice chair defies Ebola isolation
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
Vice chairman of APC in Kono, who was allegedly treating Adamu Ezeh’s 95-year-old mother that later died at home of the Ebola Virus Disease and resident of the same address, has refused to be quarantined.
Abdul Sesay, who claimed to be a pharmacist, worked with the political party registration commission’s Ebola respond team in Kono district, supervising quarantined homes as the vice chairman of the team.
Moyamba commits local tax to Ebola fight
By Bampia James Bundu
Chairman of national council of paramount chiefs in Sierra Leone has said they will commit 10% of local tax revenue generated from people in all chiefdoms in the Moyamba district, south of Sierra Leone.
Speaking at a meeting with President Ernest Bai Koroma in Moyamba recently, Paramount Chief Charles Balaka Caulker, said though they had not received funding to fight Ebola they had already committed their efforts to tackling the disease in their district.
