By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Minister of Finance (MOF) Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura in a media interview says the country’s Wage Bill is currently sustainable and that after rebasing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the expenditure on Wages dropped.
“This means that the government should raise revenue in the system to ensure that any adjustment in Wages falls in such a sustainable level,” he said.
By Politico Staff Writer
The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone has ruled in favour of Chief Electoral Commissioner, Mohamed Konneh indicating that his appointment was lawful and constitutional and did not contravene any constitutional provisions.
Acting Chief Justice, Nicholas C. Browne-Marke on the 17th July, 2024, stated that “the Constitution must be read as a whole, and not in bits, cherry-picking provisions which, on their own, may appear to support one view or the other. To do so, would result in absurdity.”
By Nasratu Kargbo
Members of Parliament were in a reminiscing mode during their debate on aviation agreements brought to the House, as they wished for the then aviation facilities such as internal flights and cheap international tickets amongst other to be revived.
The Acting Leader of the Opposition called on the government to reconsider and undertake the Mammah Airport Project in a bid to improve the aviation sector.
By Saio Marrah
State Prosecutor, Oladipo Robin-Mason, has told jurors in the ongoing treason trial that the second accused confessed to police investigators that he was actively involved in the failed coup plot.
In his closing address at the high court in Freetown on Friday 19th July 2024, he reminded the 12 person jury that Mohamed Jalloh admitted in his voluntary caution statement that the plan was due to be executed in March 2023 and that the first accused Koita Makalo persuaded him to “join the mission.”
By Nasratu Kargbo
Members of Parliament have appealed to the newly approved Commissioners at the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) to help improve the standard of education in the country, saying standards have dropped and blamed every Sierra Leonean for the fall.
They made this call on the 16th July 2024 whilst debating on presidential nominees. They highlighted certain factors such as selling of grades and providing leakages for students and pupils amongst other things as being the reason for the drop in standards.
By Alpha Abu
Lawyers in neighbouring Guinea are on a two-week strike action that began on Tuesday 16th July, in protest over what they say are the arbitrary arrests of people in the country by the security forces.
There are no clear indications as to the number of arrests in question but the strike comes at a time of the arrest and detention of Civil Society leaders Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah, allegedly by heavily armed hooded men in military fatigues and civilian clothes.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) through its Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested Abdul Kadiru Kaikai for an incendiary statement he made through a social media video that if he does not become President in 2028, he will mastermind and bring war to Sierra Leone.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
