Koroma reshuffles civil service
President Ernest Bai Koroma has reshuffled the top of the civil service and the public service.
A release from State House announces that Ernest SA Surrur has been appointed Secretary to Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service. Until this announcement Surrur was Director General of Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) which position has now gone to a long-standing civil servant, Abdul R. Bayoh. Until his appointment, Baryoh was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education.
New tax systems for Kono
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
The Kono District Council says it is introducing its “home source revenue,” a new tax system in the eastern district since the re-introduction in 2004 of local government in Sierra Leone.
Council evaluator, Mohamed Sahr Philip Yajah, in charge of property taxes and business licenses said that in the eight years of its existence the council had not collected house, property rates and other licenses because the township was destroyed by rebels during the 11-year brutal war.
ACC indictees in court Monday 14 March
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Spokesman of the Anti Corruption Commission, Shollay Davies has told Politico that 29 people indicted by the commission will be arraigned before a Freetown High Court on Monday, 18 March.
They were charged on Thursday 7 March on charges bordering on corruption to the tune of over le 11 Billion.
