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By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A 5-day professional capacity enhancement training for staff of the Political Parties’ Registration Commission has started at the Leone Lodge in Freetown.

PPRC Chairperson, Justice Tholla Thompson observed that “as a regulator of the political environment in Sierra Leone we are always looking for ways of capacitating our staff to be more effective in our role”.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2 has committed to the High Court in Freetown the case of an alleged theft onboard a parked aircraft involving a certain Moses John Wilson.

He was not represented by a lawyer.

Wilson was charged to court following an incident at the Freetown International Airport at Lungi where an aircraft carrying investors was broken into whiles its owners were in Freetown.

By Crispina Cummings

Parliament has summoned officials of the ministry of mines and mineral resources and those of the National Revenue Authority to answer to claims of fiscal indiscipline contained in the country’s 2010/2011 auditor general’s report.

Deputy auditor general, Tamba Momoh said that receipts issued by the ministry as payments totalling Le 18, 300,000 and $19,690 in respect of monitoring and rehabilitation fees, were not deposited into the bank account.

By Mohamed Massaquoi in Pujehun

By Crispina Lois Cummings

The Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday summoned some officials of the judiciary of Sierra Leone on the basis of allegations contained in the 2011 auditor general’s report.

Acting Master and Registrar,Yayah Mansaray, a vote controller failed to show up, leaving members of the public accounts committee livid. The committee said they said “Mr. Mansaray has deliberately dodged the committee on several occasions. The judiciary has been playing hide and seek with the committee”.

Sierra Leone will be among four countries in the Mano River Union set to benefit from the West African Power Pool project (WAPP) worth US$ 440 million, according to Joseph Mayah, deputy-managing director of the Liberia electricity corporation.

He told a delegation from the WAPP-CLSG in Monrovia that upon completion the three countries would be electrified from neighboring Cote d'Ivoire through the Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone-Guinea (CLSG) energy project as mandated by an ECOWAS Energy protocol, signed in 1999.