Chairman of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party, John Oponjo Benjamin has described as “an achievement” the meeting between President Ernest Bai Koroma and US President Barack Obama.
Koroma was one of four African leaders invited to a meeting last week at the White House on democracy and good governance on the continent. The others are the presidents of Senegal and Malawi and the Prime Minister of Cape Verde.
The leader of the main opposition SLPP, John Benjamin has expressed “dissatisfaction” and “disappointment” over the “sluggish” manner in which the Sierra Leone judiciary has responded to their challenge to the outcome of the presidential election of November last year.
He told Politico that his party was now of the firm view that the judiciary “is undermining democracy” in the country by “not moving in a manner that is reflective of justice”.
Several batches of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) battalion going to join the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) are on their way to the war-torn country. It comes amid concerns that the country is too dangerous to deploy our troops and follows the deployment of a company of troops deployed in Darfur.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
The case of Eddie Tunde Williams, who allegedly slain journalist Joseph Ibrahim Foday, was on Thursday 28 March 2013 committed to the High Court of Sierra Leone for further trail.
The 32-year-old accused, whose preliminary investigation ended with a ruling from magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2 in Freetown was being tried on one count of murder contrary to law. He allegedly killed the journalist in June 2011 at Grafton during a land dispute which Foday was covering.
All new ministers, deputy ministers and permanent secretaries are to attend a one-day induction workshop today, 4 April to be schooled “on matters relating to President Koroma’s new concept of state administration” according to a State House press release.
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