By Saio Marrah
The first day of introduction of the new and improved securitized Identity Card for citizens and non-nationals has been beset by slow processing of payments attributed to poor networking being encountered by Africell telecoms and Sierra Leone Commercial Bank, the two institutions undertaking the cash payment by registrants.
The National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) announced the commencement of providing the IDs, after a long period of non-issuance.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Residents in Freetown have expressed their disappointment over the growing inconsistency in power distribution across various areas in the city that reportedly affected livelihoods.
Speaking to Politico on the 2nd February 2023, a Kissy Community resident Maseray Kanu said the intermittent electricity supply has affected all sectors and that for the past two weeks homes have been experiencing blackouts, leading to food going bad in refrigerators.
By Saio Marrah
A 27-year-old man who was convicted of stealing a motorbike from his friend has been jailed for two years. Mohamed Kabba’s sentence covers also from the time he was first remanded in custody on the 5th of February 2022.
He was found guilty of fraudulently converting into his own use the bike which was the property of Mohamed Massaquoi at Calaba Town, east of Freetown.
By Saio Marrah
A Porter at Ferry Junction, Kissy in Freetown, Abu Bakarr Sankoh is to serve six months imprisonment at the Male Correctional Centre after he was convicted for stealing one Infinix Hot 10 mobile phone and one Apple I-phone 8plus with a total value of Old Leones11,000,000 (eleven million). The phones belonged to one Mustapha Sesay.
Sankoh was acquitted of “conspiracy to commit larceny from the person” during the trial at the main law court building in Freetown on Wednesday 1st February 2023.
By Saio Marrah
Freetown High Court Judge Monfred Sesay has sent to prison one Abu Bakarr Conteh for 12 months after he was found guilty of housebreaking and larceny.
He was accused of entering his cousin Lilian Tenneh Conteh’s dwelling house at Kossoh Town and robbing her of properties valued at New Leones7,550 (seven thousand, five hundred and fifty).
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Chairman of the National Council for Civic Education and Democracy Kalilu Totangi has urged all Sierra Leoneans to remain peaceful before, during, and after the elections.
"Keeping peace in the country is one of our core mandates as council’’ said Totangi. The Chairman made this call at a two-day annual retreat held in Kenema on the 26th and 27th of January 2023.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Bombali District remains the only district in the country where lymphatic filariasis also known as elephantiasis, is still transmissible in Sierra Leone.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Public Health, Dr. Alie H. Wurie made this revelation on Monday, 30 January, during a panel discussion held to mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) day.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
