The Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), Justice Edmund Cowan has appealed to its members to put Sierra Leone ahead of all other interests.
Speaking yesterday at the inaugural meeting of the committee, Justice Cowan said “We should be one. We should be united in whatever we do. We are individuals but our duty is to this nation…”
He went on that the 80-member committee should be mindful of “what we do here” urging that they should strive to “get the results the people want”.
Mathew Kanu in Makeni
Chairman of Bombali district council has told a meeting in Kamakwe that by October this year they will commence the construction in Makeni of a paramedical school to train professional nurses and offer other health courses at degree level.
John Shangai Koroma said all councils had a moral responsibility to enhance better primary and junior secondary school education, health facilities, ensure food security and promote transparency and accountability.
Mathew Kanu in Makeni
The Bombali district council is on outreach, holding its first meeting out of Makeni as part of its new plan to meet the people and discuss their activities with them.
In Kamakwe, the chiefdom headquarter town of Sella Limba, the council authorities brought together councillors, administrators and hundreds of people at the town Barrie.
By Joseph Sevalie in Mattru
There were clashes yesterday in the disputed village of Nyangai in the Sogbene chiefdom in the southern Bonthe District leaving two people with serious machete wounds. Clashes were also reported in Balie and Kpetema in the same chiefdom.
It followed a long drawn out dispute between Sogbene and Bum chiefdoms with each laying claim to Nyangai. The matter was looked into by the Provincial Security Committee (PROSEC) which sent surveyors to the place and ascertained that Nyangai belonged to Sogbene.
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