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By Steven Bockarie Mansaray in Kabala

The Accountant of the Koinadugu District Council, Aruna Samba Kanu is on the run. According to the chief administrator of the council, Sahr Emmanuel Yambasu the accountant has been away for three weeks without any idea about his whereabouts. He said they had tried all means of reaching him without success and that he left without an official excuse.

The independent Media Commission (IMC) and Women in the Media (WIMSAL) have denounced the actions of certain media houses in the alleged rape allegations between the now-sacked Deputy Minister of Education, Mahmoud Tarawallie and a university student.

In two separate press releases issued on Tuesday the institutions said the privacy of the complainant had been invaded.

By Mustapha Sesay

The former commercial manager of the mobile communication network, Comium, has called on final year students of Fourah Bay College to become entrepreneurs. Lawrence Coker said not all of them would be “employed after graduation” because of the non-availability of job opportunities in the country.

By Kenneth Thompson

Centre for the Coordination of Youth Activities, CCYA Sierra Leone has partnered with the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD in Nigeria to launch a “popularization campaign on two regional documents” to commemorate the International Day of Democracy.

Executive director of CCYA, Ngolo Katta said that “The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance” and “The ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Governance,” had been ratified by the country and therefore needed to be popularized by the media and civil society.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi in Pujehun

Magistrate Alford Fidawi in Pujehun has committed to high court the case of an alleged sexual penetration involving a 31-year-old man.

According to the prosecution, the accused on the 8 March this year sexually abused a two-year old girl.

Magistrate Fidawi said that after looking at the evidence he had no powers to pass a verdict on the said matter. He described the alleged abuse on the girl as an unnecessary assault and granted bail to the accused in the sum of Le 10 million and one surety in like sum.

By Mustapha Sesay

The circuit superintendent of the Ebenezer Methodist Church, Wilberforce branch says "instilling moral values in school-going children" and embarking on civic education will reduce the act of bribery and corruption in Sierra Leone.

Rev. Arnold Archer Campbell made this comment at a symposium organised by the Anti-Corruption Commission at the Miata Conference Centre in Freetown with the object of discussing ways to reducing bribery in the country.