SLPP resolutions
Friday 29th November - Saturday 30th November 2013 National Executive Council (NEC) meeting
Sierra Leone President reshuffles administration
President Koroma
President Ernest Bai Koroma has just announced a reshuffle of his administration and Parastatals.
As is typical of him he made the announcement on the last day of the week - Friday 29 November.
No new HIV infection by 2015
By Kenneth Thompson
Deputy Director of the National AIDS Secretariat has declared in Freetown that by 2015 there will be no more reported cases of new HIV infections in Sierra Leone, with a current infection rate of 1.5%.
Robbers terrorise Segbwema
By Bob Batilo Saffa
Officer Commanding police operations in the eastern town of Segbwema, Kailahun district has told Politico that ten cases of house-breaking and larceny have been reported to his office in just one month.
ASP Patrick Joseph Alpha said investigation was in progress but that no arrests had been made so far. He said “to make the township safe again I have organized patrols in the township”.
Bombs found in school
By Fasalie Sulaiman Kamara
Some ammunition, among them bullets and bombs, was discovered inside the compound of Services primary school at the Wilberforce Barracks in Freetown, leaving school authorities, parents and pupils panicked.
A senior teacher, Kelie Mansaray, told Politicothat “the ammunition was discovered when we contracted someone to rehabilitate the old toilet in the school compound that had not been used since the war”.
Zero rural access to electricity
By Tilly Barrie
The development agency of United Nations, UNDP, has said in Freetown that less than one percent of the country’s rural population has access to electricity and therefore depends on wood fuel for cooking.
Minister promises to streamline private schools
By Abdulai Gbla
Minister of education, Dr. Minkailu Bah, has threatened to chase out and close down all private schools he considers to be “mushroom schools” in the country.
He made the resolution at a meeting organized by the Conference of Principals in Sierra Leone at the Government Rokel Secondary School in Freetown.
Dr. Bah claimed that “most of these so called private schools do not have proper documentation”, adding that that was against the laws of Sierra Leone.
