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By Crispina Cummings

Parliamentary committee on labour and industrial relations on Friday summoned officials of ADDAX Bioenergy Company, its subsidiary and subcontractors to clarify issues regarding their operations, employment and social responsibilities.

Committee chairman, Francis Konowa, observed that one of the subcontractors PC/ISGECK Company had 211 expatriate staff and 73 national staff, stating that that was very unfair to the country.

By Fasalie S. Kamara.

The immunization specialist in Sierra Leone for the UN children’s agency, UNICEF says the country has not reported a single case of polio since February 2010. Dr. Nuhu Maksha was however quick to add that that did not mean the country was polio-free.

Six people, including a former member of parliament, have been remanded in prison by a magistrate in Bo after making a brief appearance.

They were charged with destroying economic trees worth Le 200 million belonging to an agribusiness company SOCFIN, incitement and conspiracy.

The accused, all members of the land rights campaign group called Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA), were refused bail.

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

Police in Kenema are investigating a case of defamation reported by the Paramount Chief of Small Bo Chiefdom, Dafie Benya against a Paramount Chief Member of Parliament of Langurama Chiefdom, Prince Pewe. It followed accusations, counter-accusations and even recriminations between the two traditional leaders and their supporters over the alleged attempted killing by juju means of one of them by the other.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Teachers and pupils of OCTEA’s relocated United Methodist Church Secondary School for Girls at the resettlement camp have threatened to “go slow” if their concerns to use the 50-seater school bus were not addressed.

The pupils have also threatened to “go on the rampage” if the company’s head of community development, Henry Vard, continue to subject their teachers to “public molestation and disgrace.”