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By Mathew Kanu in Makeni

Police in Kamakwie have stepped up campaign against armed robbery and other forms of lawlessness in the Sella Limba Chiefdom. But they denied imposing a curfew saying community policing was taking shape in the chiefdom.

The Kamakwie police local unit commander, Tamba Alfred Kargbo said police patrols were on duty day and night and would continue. Mobile patrol teams are all over the chiefdom in a very proactive manner, he said.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Presiding magistrate of Court No. 2 in Freetown yesterday committed to the High Court for trial the matter of alleged fraud involving one Sulaiman Kargbo who claimed he was a lawyer named M.S. Kargbo.

The accused is alleged to have posed as an attorney for clients Tamba Sulaiman Chendeka and Alhaji Musa Sheriff, both of whom were also before the court for allegedly duping an Indian diamond dealer, Mayour Patel over Le 400 million.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A month-long investigation by Politico has revealed an apparent mandatory bribe of 10% of school subsidies is paid to the Kono District Education Office in the east of Sierra Leone.

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

There is confusion at the top management of the defending champions of the suspended premier league, Diamond Stars. Two factions within the club are at each other’s throat apparently as fallout from the recent election in the Sierra Leone Football Association.

By Bampia James Bundu

Chiefdom speaker of Kamakwie, Momodu Kamara, has complained that the abrupt disclosure by the administration of Kamakwie Wesleyan Hospital resulted in a miscarriage, leaving the mother with serious complications in a Makeni hospital.

The mother, his niece, was due for labour at the time the hospital was shut down for days. He feared many more people might have suffered far more serious problems because of the closure.

The presidential task force on waste management says it will organise a special cleaning exercise on Saturday, 7 September with the possibility to extend it to Sunday for the collection and disposal of garbage in the capital.

In a press statement issued by State House on Monday, the task force said the cleaning exercise would help to maintain proper hygiene and sanitation in Freetown and in other parts of the country.