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By Abass Jalloh

Magistrate Mark Ngegba of Pademba Road Court No. 1 in Freetown has remanded Aruna Bangura, a miner at the Siplina Venture Limited, for allegedly defrauding Dr. Cyprian Okoro, owner of the company, properties worth over NLe150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand Leones).

On Monday 28th November 2022, the accused, Bangura, made his first appearance to answer to charges related to Fraudulent Conversion.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Members of Parliament have expunged the clause in the Bill entitled Political Parties Act 2022 which proposed that political parties be given subvention from Government resources.

Deputy Minister of Justice, Umaru Napoleon Koroma on the 24^th November 2022 after the passage of the bill into an Act explained to journalists that government had had in the bill a proposal to fund political parties by giving them subvention, but said MPs saw the provision as a burden on tax payers’ money and therefore expunged the clause.

A report done by the Office of the Clerk of Parliament has concluded that the damage done to parliamentary property when scuffles broke out in the chamber on 23^rd November is valued at new Le 380 million. The items damaged included android computers and microphones, chairs belonging to MPs and the local area network connections.

By Aminata Sameena Sesay

The United Nations gender agency UN Women has acknowledged its support for the successful enactment of the 2022 Gender Bill.

At a press conference held at Radisson Blu in Freetown, the group commended President Julius Maada Bio and the Minister of Gender and Children’s Affairs Manty Tarawally for the achievement.

By Politico Staff Writer

The Electricity Distribution and Supply Agency, EDSA has condemned the “wanton vandalization of electrical installations across the country with specific reference to our secondary substations”. In a statement widely circulated on social media, the institution described that attack on their installations as a “deliberate ploy by mischief makers to take the shine out of the Authority’s quest to provide reliable and accessible electricity for citizens”.

By Saio Marrah

Workers of the Sierra Leone Telecommunications Company (Sierratel), have in a peaceful protest demanded the intervention of President Julius Maada Bio over their challenging working conditions.

The workers carrying placards lined along the Cotton Tree Area, in central Freetown last Thursday, demanding payment of their seven month salary backlog. They also asked for the provision of medical and leave allowances, the latter which they claimed, they have been deprived of, for the last three years.

By Politico staff writer

The African Development Bank (ADB) has endorsed the awarding of contract to a Chinese company to undertake construction of the Kailahun-Buedu Road and given the all-clear for work to commence.