By Saio Marrah
An accused, Yayah Fullah from Kolisokoh Village in Bombali District has appeared in a Freetown Magistrate court for alleged illegal possession of 192 bullets.
The prosecution witness one(PW1), Police Inspector Sulaiman Koroma in Charge of Sauoulia Village Police Checkpoint, Bombali District testified before Magistrate Mark Ngegba at Pademba Road Court No.1 on Thursday 17th August 2023 that he was on duty at the checkpoint when the accused arrived in a vehicle.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Speaker of Sierra Leone’s Parliament, Dr. Chernor Abass Bundu has said Opposition Members of Parliament Elect that are yet to take the oath of office have breached the contract they had with their people and urged them to assume their seats in parliament.
Speaking in Parliament on the 17th of August 2023, Dr. Bundu stated that the elected MPs were not forced to contest for the position, and it is their duty to represent their people.
By Politico staff writer
Outgoing United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone, David Reimer says President Julius Maada Bio is the President of Sierra Leone but called for dialogue between the Government and the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) and other parties so that the country can move forward.
Speaking during a radio interview in Freetown on Wednesday 16th August, the ambassador said they would like to see the government dialogue with civil society and political parties.
By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya
In reaction to growing mob justice particularly in the Western Area, the Sierra Leone Police have strongly condemned the practice in a public notice issued on the 16th of August, 2023.
According to the notice, the violent acts ‘in the guise of exercising justice’ culminate in what the Police say are extra-judicial killings of suspected thieves or miscreants in some local communities which they view as homicidal and a serious miscarriage of justice.
By Alpha Abu
The regional bloc ECOWAS has affirmed its use of force option, to reverse the coup in Niger, is still on the cards, following a meeting of West African Military Chiefs in Ghana, on Thursday, to discuss the crisis.
Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah- the organisation’s Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security in a BBC interview asserted the resolve of ECOWAS to intervene militarily in a bid to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum.
By Saio Marrah
A Police witness has identified in court the clothes of slain Fourah Bay College Lecturer, Kabba Santigie Bangura whose body was found in a shallow grave in a shrine-like room inside the house of a herbalist at Mile Four, just outside Waterloo in the Western Rural District.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Pujehun District Member of Parliament Abu Kemokai Children in has appealed to the government and stakeholders concerned to procure boats for children commuting to and from school.
Kemokai who was on the 16th of August 2023 debating on the Presidential speech said: “I want to report to this house and draw the attention of the Ministry that for our children living in those riverine communities, they need boats to access their schools. I want to call on the Ministry to procure a boat for them.”
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
