By Mohamed Vandi in Pujehun
Sierra Leone journalists out of jail
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
The editor and managing editor of the Independent Observer newspaper were yesterday walked as free men again after spending 19 days in detention. Jonathan Leigh and Bai Bai Sesay had each been granted bail on Monday by a Freetown high court in the sum of Le 500 million and two sureties, one of whom must deposit their titled deed to the court Master and Registrar. They failed to meet the stiff bail bond which meant that they had to spend another night at the maximum security Pademba Road prison.
SLPP jeers at APC ‘paradox’
By Mustapha Sesay
Deputy Chairman of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party has described as “paradoxical” President Ernest Bai Koroma’s recent sacking of the minister of works.
Dr. Prince Alex Harding told a news conference at the party’s headquarters on Wallace Johnson St. in Freetown that the sacking of Alimamy Petito Koroma by the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) government was “a paradox which discredited the infrastructural achievements of the president.”
Rape victims languish Moyamba
Civil society organisations in the southern Moyamba district have called on Government through the Chief Justice Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh to assign a resident high court judge to the district. It followed a huge caseload of the rape of girls some of them as young as three years old with no judge to try the alleged rapists.
The organisations made the call at a bimonthly stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Centre for the Coordination of Youth Activities (CCYA) with support from Access for Security and Justice.
AML enters Koinadugu
By Steven Bockarie Mansaray
Officials of the iron ore miner, African Minerals Limited (AML) last week held a meeting in Kondabaia Diang chiefdom in the northern Koinadugu district to inform the local and traditional authorities about their plan to start drilling and exploration work in the area.
Bombali women farmers call for capacity building
By Mathew Kanu
Women farmers in two chiefdoms in Bombali district have called on the Ministry of Agriculture “to do more” in the area of building their capacity to enhance their skills to be able to attain food security in the country.
Kadiatu Kamara, a farmer at Makumpbana said that even though they had received some training from some civil society organisations that enabled them to now weed and harvest on time, they still needed government intervention in providing additional training and capacity building.
