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 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.
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”.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
