UK engages Sierra Leone parliamentarians
By Crispina Cummings
Members of Parliament from the United Kingdom in collaboration with the Commonwealth parliamentary association yesterday engaged their counterparts in Sierra Leone on post-election issues at the Parliament Building on Tower Hill in Freetown.
The visiting MPs, Greg Hands, assistant government whip, Rt. David Hanson, shadow minister for policing and Eve Samson, clerk of the committee on standards and privileges, urged MPs in Sierra Leone to make effective use of the resources at their disposal for the general good of the people.
2 in court for rape
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Eighteen-year old Sulaiman Kamara was Saturday refused bail and remanded in prison by Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No.2 in Freetown.
The accused was charged with sexual penetration, contrary to Section 19 of the Sexual Offences Act No. 60 of 2012. The offence was that the accused, on diverse dates between the 7 and 21 November, 2012, sexually penetrated a 9-year old girl at Hill Cot Road in Freetown.
