By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A second prosecution witness yesterday testified in the alleged case of embezzlement involving a staff member of the Magbass Sugar Company in Magbass village, northern Sierra Leone.
The accused, Samuel Thomas Bangura, who is facing a two-count charge of embezzlement, made his second appearance in court two weeks after his first.
By Crispina Cummings
Parliamentary committee on finance and development has called on police to arrest the Chief Administrator of Makeni City Council and force him to face their probe after he refused to show up four hours after the summon.
Ahaji Alhaji Bangura, who was supposed to face the oversight committee on finance and development to give account on finances disbursed by the central authorities to the council, was nowhere to be found.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Magistrate Komba Komanda of Court Number 2 has warned three members of the Revolutionary United Front Party standing trial in his court on allegations of house-breaking and larceny.
He said it was not welcoming to hear “RUF” being mentioned in any misunderstanding because the name “brings back bad memories” and advised the party not to do anything that would disturb the peace of the land as “we have suffered enough”.
By Crispina Cummings
During their oversight work in Kenema, the Parliamentary Committee on Finance and Development discovered that the government Senior Trade Inspector in the district was “seriously undermining government efforts”.
The committee says that Kandeh Kanu poses as Acting Proprietor for Punjab Distilleries Factory, the producers of cheap alcoholic drinks which they say contradicts his work as a government official.
The parliamentary oversight committee on finance and development has commended the National Revenue Authority’s Regional Manager in the East, Michael Alimamy Kanu and his team for collecting Le 3.6 Billion last year and Le 2.2 Billion for the first half of 2013.
The Committee Chairman, Hassan sheriff, MP, said that regional tax office had done well in helping government to raise revenue, stressing that “all documents presented to the committee are in good order”.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
