The National Security Coordinator, Brig (Rtd) Jah Tucker says the Military Aid to Civil Power (MAC-P) has been invoked to cover the residence of each of the three judges presiding over the three commissions of inquiry (COI) investigating corrupt former government officials.
Tucker, who heads the Office of National Security (ONS), told Politico that the strand of Mac-P invoked was the “standing” one and not the “emergency” one.
There were riots in various parts of The Gambia on Wednesday, concentrated around the Senegambia area, following the death of a Sierra Leonean.
It led to the torching of the residence of the head of the police Anti-Crime Unit, Gorgi Mboob.
The protesters, in their hundreds and mostly Gambian, accuse the police of beating to death, Usman Dabor, a Sierra Leonean married to a Gambian wife. His body is lying at the Kanifeng hospital.
By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
Guma Valley Water Company is planning to increase water rate for businesses in the capital, Freetown, Politico has learnt.
According to a document released by the Electricity and Water Regulation Commission (EWRC), the proposal by the company will see charges on water rate go up by close to 80% for small businesses.
The proposal which is yet to be approved by EWRC comes in the face of the perennial challenge of water supply in the capital city.
By Hassan Juana Koroma in Bo
Tricycle (Kekeh) riders in Bo city have formally complained the Sierra Leone Police to the Office of National Security (ONS) in the Southern region for what they described as ‘persistent harassment’ of their members by the Police.
By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
Statistics Sierra Leone have called on data generating agencies and data users to collaborate to enhance data using experience in the country.
Statistician General Professor Osman Sankoh made the call during a one-day workshop organized by the agency for data users and producers on Wednesday.
Prison inmates across Sierra Leone were early this month provided with fresh supplies of bedding as part of an effort to make their dwelling more accommodating.
The prison authorities say 4,438 inmates at the various Correctional Centres in the country benefitted from the exercise which included foam mattresses, pillows and blankets.
By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone has revealed that an academic under investigation on suspected fraud worked at the University of Makeni (UNIMAK) before joining Njala University.
‘Professor Emmanuel Ajayi Femi Gbenga, who was arrested last week, is under investigation for using fake degrees to apply for job in a public institution. The Nigerian academic was arrested on a tip off from Njala University officials, the ACC said.
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