By Crispina Cummings
The appropriation sub-committee on finance on Friday ended their probe into the budget expenditure last year by ministries, departments and agencies. Approval for their 2013 budget will be debated next week.
However scrutiny of the expenditure by the Road Maintenance Fund of last year’s budget was suspended on the grounds that the vote comptroller and executive director Abdul Karim Kalokoh could not account for Le 5 billion.
Lecturers at the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCET) have joined their colleagues at Fourah Bay College and Njala University on an industrial strike action.
President of the Academic Staff Association of MMCET, Gibril Thullah told Politico that they agreed yesterday, Wednesday 13 March to commence their sit-down strike action because of “several grievances”.
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
The District Coordinator of a civil society organization based in Kono has expressed dissatisfaction over the “long abandonment of the electricity work in the district”, describing it as “a political gimmick and a total discrimination and marginalization by the government of Sierra Leone against the people of Kono especially in the equal distribution of development and resources in the country over the past years.”
By Mustapha Sesay
The Department of Mass Communication, Fourah Bay College and the Centre for International Media Analysis, Research and Consultancy, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom on Wednesday hosted one-day seminar on the social and legal impact of the trials of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on the peoples of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
