By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Magistrate Komba Komanda of Court Number 2 has warned three members of the Revolutionary United Front Party standing trial in his court on allegations of house-breaking and larceny.
He said it was not welcoming to hear “RUF” being mentioned in any misunderstanding because the name “brings back bad memories” and advised the party not to do anything that would disturb the peace of the land as “we have suffered enough”.
By Crispina Cummings
During their oversight work in Kenema, the Parliamentary Committee on Finance and Development discovered that the government Senior Trade Inspector in the district was “seriously undermining government efforts”.
The committee says that Kandeh Kanu poses as Acting Proprietor for Punjab Distilleries Factory, the producers of cheap alcoholic drinks which they say contradicts his work as a government official.
The parliamentary oversight committee on finance and development has commended the National Revenue Authority’s Regional Manager in the East, Michael Alimamy Kanu and his team for collecting Le 3.6 Billion last year and Le 2.2 Billion for the first half of 2013.
The Committee Chairman, Hassan sheriff, MP, said that regional tax office had done well in helping government to raise revenue, stressing that “all documents presented to the committee are in good order”.
By Jenneh Braima
The UN development agency, UNDP, has given $300,000 to the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), out of a total of US$ 4.1 million needed for the process which opens next week.
A consultative meeting was held at the ministry of finance and economic development for donor pledges towards the process to prepare the budget for the launch and the eventually inauguration of the commission.
By Mohamed Vandi
In what looks like a replay of the classical biblical case of Sarah and Deborah, the police family support unit (FSU) in Kenema have started investigating a case involving two women both of whom are laying claim to a 12-year-old. The boy had been living in Daru town for more than eight years with a nurse, Amie Joseph.
An FSU source said the matter was initially reported to the Daru police station where preliminary investigations started but was subsequently referred to the FSU regional headquarters in Kenema.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A 20-year-old man (name withheld as part of Politico’s editorial policies), who allegedly raped a four-year old girl at Wellington has been remanded at the Pademba Road prisons by Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No.2 in Freetown.
The accused, who apparently lives in the same house as the victim, is being preliminarily investigated on a one-count charge of sexual penetration.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
