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By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

In a social media tweet, the Managing Director of the Guma Valley Water Company, Maada S. Kpenge says there is going to be a long dry season, due to the spillage at the Guma dam that ended early.

And further buttressing the tweet in an interview with Politico, the Communication Manager for the Guma Valley Water Company, Alie Kabba said early stoppage of spillage at the Guma dam is happening as a result of human activities around the Guma dam.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

In a letter addressed to President Julius Maada Bio and sent to Politico, a citizen named Santigie Amara expressed concern regarding the delay in the distribution of fertilizer to farmers in Port Loko for the implementation of the Feed Salone Project.

By Saio Marrah

A Prosecution Witness at a Magistrate Court in Freetown has testified that the first accused, Mohamed Arafat S. Munda, in an ongoing alleged bank fraud at the Rokel Commercial Bank, did tamper with the bank account of a deceased, Musa Kanteh.

Munda is incriminated along with two others, 32-year-old Mohamed Munda Tarleh who is an agent of Rokel Commercial Bank SIM Korpor Mobile Application System, and 30-year-old Businessman, Edison Brima Mohamed as the second and third accused persons respectively.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The Bo City Council is pressing on with an operation to clear street traders from the Central Business District of the City.

The Communication Officer of the Council told Politico that the ongoing operation has the support of stakeholders including executive members of the Sierra Leone Traders Union, Civil Society Organizations, the Sierra Leone Police, the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, and the Road Safety Corps.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

The Director General of National Telecommunication Authority (Natca), Amara Brewah, has revealed the authority’s plans to ban the sale of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards on the Streets of Sierra Leone, saying that it was a security concern.

Brewah made this pronouncement at the weekly government news conference organized by the Ministry of Information and Civic Education at the Foreign Affairs Ministry on the 26th ^of September this year.

By Politico staff writer

Two senior Police Officers from Sierra Leone have joined counterparts and civil society representatives from other African Countries for Specialized Child Protection Training in Rwanda.

Chief Superintendents Hawa Koloneh Conteh and Zainab Mbalu Gbla are being trained alongside those from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Uganda, and host country Rwanda for the 5 days training from 25^th -29^th September, 2023.

By Politico Staff Writer

Deputy Minister of Information and Civic Education (MOICE) Yusuf Keketoma Sandi has expressed his desire for the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) to be the centre of broadcasting transformation in the country, therefore calling on China’s Hunan Broadcasting to support the state broadcaster in its transformation drive.