By Crispina Cummings
The committee on local government in parliament has summoned officials of the Freetown City Council to query them on the uncontrollable increase in filth across the municipality and the hazards associated with that.
Manager of waste management company, Sulaiman Paker told the committee that workers had been on strike since 28 August 2013, demanding that their salaries for July and August be paid.
Minister of Information and Communications Alpha Kanu has appealed to information communication experts and other colleague ministers in Mano River Union countries “to consider the deployment of fibre optic cables overhead instead of underground”.
According to newsfeed from the information ministry, Kanu said this would “reduce cost and also facilitate faster deployment of the fibre cable for use by the citizens”.
By Mathew Kanu in Makeni
Police in Kamakwie have stepped up campaign against armed robbery and other forms of lawlessness in the Sella Limba Chiefdom. But they denied imposing a curfew saying community policing was taking shape in the chiefdom.
The Kamakwie police local unit commander, Tamba Alfred Kargbo said police patrols were on duty day and night and would continue. Mobile patrol teams are all over the chiefdom in a very proactive manner, he said.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Presiding magistrate of Court No. 2 in Freetown yesterday committed to the High Court for trial the matter of alleged fraud involving one Sulaiman Kargbo who claimed he was a lawyer named M.S. Kargbo.
The accused is alleged to have posed as an attorney for clients Tamba Sulaiman Chendeka and Alhaji Musa Sheriff, both of whom were also before the court for allegedly duping an Indian diamond dealer, Mayour Patel over Le 400 million.
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
A month-long investigation by Politico has revealed an apparent mandatory bribe of 10% of school subsidies is paid to the Kono District Education Office in the east of Sierra Leone.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
