By Septimus Senessie
A fatal road accident on Monday 29July at Faor village in the Nimikoro chiefdom, in Kono district left three killed on the spot including a 2-year-old child. One person was left critically injured.
The accident happened when an unregistered commercial motorbike carrying three passengers rammed into another unregistered tractor which was apparently stationary. All the victims were on the motorbike.
Citizens of Sorogbeima and Makpele chiefdoms, now resident in the United States of America and United Kingdom, have issued a statement rejecting the agreement between Pujehun district and Aristeus Palm Oil Company. The foreign agribusiness company has concession on a 47,567-hectare arable land in Sorogbema chiefdom, according to a campaign group Green Scenery while West Africa Agriculture Number 2 Ltd has 30,700 hectares.
By Jenneh Braima
Two sisters, aged 15 and 17 years, names withheld, have accused their biological father, MIE Pratt (name abbreviated for editorial reasons), of consistently sexually abusing them
“He harassed, beat and subdued us violently before he would rape us” the elder of the sisters told Politico in-between sobs, adding “I was just about 13 in 2008 when he first raped and deflowered us”.
By Richard Ngevao
A joint divisional police operation led by the deputy operations officer for the Bo west division, Inspector Augustine Kabbia in the early hours of Tuesday morning led to the arrest of five men suspected to be armed robbers along Tikonkor Road in Bo.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A Guinean national, who was allegedly caught with 36kg of cannabis sativa in Sumbuya village in the border town of Kambia, between Sierra Leone and Guinea, has been committed to High Court in Freetown.
The accused, AlkalyTraoure, who only spoke Susu before Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2,was under preliminary investigations on two countcharge of unlawful possession and transportation of cannabis sativa, all contrary to law.
Through an interpreter he pleaded guilty to the charges.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
