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By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

Police chief in Pujehun has confirmed that he ordered the arrest of Chiefdom Speaker of Malen, Robert Moigua “because he violated bye-laws related to safe burials which are now in force all over the country.”

The Local Unit Commander, Chief Superintendent Nathaniel Brewah, said security personnel found a corpse being prepared for burial at the residence of the local authority.

By Crispina Cummings

In a meeting with community leaders on November 4 in Freetown President Ernest Bai Koroma blamed Ebola on attitudes and behaviours, saying “people are still in denial and are burying dead people at night.”

He said people’s attitudes needed to change for the country to contain the Ebola disease, adding that attitudinal problems were the biggest challenges facing the fight against the scourge.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Vice chairman of APC in Kono, who was allegedly treating Adamu Ezeh’s 95-year-old mother that later died at home of the Ebola Virus Disease and resident of the same address, has refused to be quarantined.

Abdul Sesay, who claimed to be a pharmacist, worked with the political party registration commission’s Ebola respond team in Kono district, supervising quarantined homes as the vice chairman of the team.

By Bampia James Bundu

Chairman of national council of paramount chiefs in Sierra Leone has said they will commit 10% of local tax revenue generated from people in all chiefdoms in the Moyamba district, south of Sierra Leone.

Speaking at a meeting with President Ernest Bai Koroma in Moyamba recently, Paramount Chief Charles Balaka Caulker, said though they had not received funding to fight Ebola they had already committed their efforts to tackling the disease in their district.

By Crispina Cummings

Project Manager of the Dutch consultancy firm, PREACON Food Management, has said that Sierra Leoneans as well as foreigners haveresorted to eating fish because of warnings that Ebola can be contracted through bush meat.

Jeffery Marcathy said in Freetown that even though meat was coming from sources apart from bush, people were generally hesitant to eat meat.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A humanitarian health care service delivery nongovernmental organisation operating in the eastern Kono district, Well Body Alliance, has donated assorted drugs and medical equipment to health authorities in Kono.

The beneficiaries were the government hospital in Koidu town and the United Methodist Church Health Centre in Jaiama town, Nimikoro chiefdom as help to combat the deadly Ebola disease in that part of the country.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A man, in his twenties, has been slammed a 48-month imprisonment for stealing electrical cables valued at Le12 million, property of Guoji Construction and Investment Company, a Chinese manufacturing company operating in Sierra Leone.