"Politics killed Operation WID" - activist
By Kenneth Thompson
Executive Director of Health Alert, a local civil society organisation, says “politicians in the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma are responsible for the demise of operation WID”.
Victor Lansana Koroma told Politico that the operation to clear major Freetown streets of traders started off very well with them as a civil society partner responsible for monitoring the process and ensuring that the mandate of the operation was actualised.
Clergyman slams Koroma, Sam-Sumana rift
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Chairman of the Western District Synod of Buxton Memorial Methodist Church on Charles Street says “the nation is in stagnation because our thoughts are totally evil and there is no fear of the Lord in our leaders”.
Reverend Arnold Archer-Campbell, who preached on the theme “Serve the Lord with fear” at the 104th anniversary of Men Stewards Union of the church over the weekend, wondered “how can a nation have a vice president that cannot represent his president or the country.”
22 police officers under probe
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
The head of the internal police disciplinary mechanism, CDIID has disclosed to Politico that 22 police officers were presently being investigated for various categories of misconduct.
Amongst them is the wife of AIG Mustapha Kamara, ASP Fatmata Kamara who served in the R and R unit of the UN mission in Darfur and was said to have been involved in some misconduct.
