The iron ore company, African Minerals Ltd., has completed payment of Le 1,099,000,000 as 2012 surface rent for mining and rail operations to about ten chiefdoms in the Bombali, Tonkolili and Port Loko districts, north of Sierra Leone.
About this same time last year the company paid some Le 1,087,000,000 for the same purpose, making it what the company refers to as an important annual event on the calendar of their corporate activities.
The maverick leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change has apologised to the people of Bo district for endorsing Ernest Bai Koroma in 2007 during the run-off presidential election.
Regional manager north of the Anti-Corruption Commission, ACC has warned a meeting of staff of the country’s roads authority, SLRA in Makeni against possible instances of corruption that were often associated with roads infrastructure.
ACC has said in Makeni that all government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) must be ridded off corrupt practices, while addressing what it described as “customised meeting with staff of the National Revenue Authority, NRA.
Regional Manager north, Yankuba Conteh, welcomed the call maintained that his office was crucial to ensuring that government gets the much needed revenue to undertake development projects.
SLAJ Press Release
No justice for slain journalist, one year on
Freetown 11 June 2012 – It is exactly one year to the day since the killing of journalist Ibrahim Foday of the daily Exclusive Newspaper on 12 June 2011 and his killers are yet to face justice. SLAJ will hold a candlelight memorial this week to mark his death.
Further demonstrating their commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility and to the communities in which they operate, London Mining recently donated two hundred bags of rice to landowners and farmers in villages affected by its mining operations.
Speaking for London Mining Desmond Doherty, Community Relations and Resettlement Manager, explained that the donations were meant to support villages like Chendetha, Robaka, Robayla, Magbenthey, Kontha, Maforki, Rogbaneh and Magberie, whose food production activities have been affected due to the use of their land for mining.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
