By Mada Augustine Ngombu
Days after a cargo ship owned by Greek Company Ainaftis was spotted stranded and stuck off the coast of Bonthe District in the south of Sierra Leone, state security sources have confirmed that it will be brought ashore.
Politico learnt that Personnel of the country’s Navy had boarded the vessel that was said to be stuck on a sandbank and were being briefed by the crew believed to be mostly Pakistani that had successfully thwarted an attempted piracy.
By Abass Jalloh
Magistrate Isata Sellu-Tucker of Pademba Road Court No. 2 in Freetown has remanded Almira Abdullah, a former banker of Ecobank Sierra Leone Limited, Lunsar Branch, for allegedly embezzling the sum of Le 200,000,000 (two hundred million Leones) of the bank’s money.
The 34-year-old accused is before the court for counts of Embezzlement contrary to section 17(1) (b) of the Larceny Act of 1916 and Larceny by Servant contrary to section 17(1) (a) of the same act.
By Ruth Yeabu Sesay
On Tuesday 22 November 2022, a truckload of Police from the Operational Support Division demolished makeshift structures located along a stretch of the Fence of Freetown Secondary School for Girls (FSSG) on Hannah Benka-Coker Street in Freetown.
The place was for long used for the selling of food and other businesses and as a garage by commercial tricycle (‘Kekeh’) riders.
The Police action came as a result of series of complaints from the school authorities on the unfavourable scenes around the school’s precincts.
By Abass Jalloh
A matter involving Susan Komba charged for allegedly killing Dennis Komba has been sent to the High Court for trial.
The accused, Susan, 60, was under preliminary investigation before Magistrate Mark Ngegba at the Pademba Road Court No. 1 in Freetown on a count charge of Manslaughter.
The prosecution alleged that on Wednesday 1st December 2021 at Block N-9, Grafton Police Barracks, Freetown, the accused unlawfully killed Dennis.
Healey International Relief Foundation that works in Sierra Leone through Caritas Freetown has announced that its receipt of a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) grant through the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) programme, to support its work in Sierra Leone.
This was announced at a Press Conference held on the 18th November 2022 at the Caritas Freetown Office at Kingtom in Freetown.
By Mada Augustine Ngombu
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) is to host the third annual retreat in Kenema City from the 24th to the 27th of November 2022 on the theme: “consolidating democracy: our collective, shared and patriotic responsibility”.
By Politico Staff Writer
The Leader of the Female Caucus in the House of Parliament, Veronica Kadie Sesay, representing Constituency 094 in Moyamba District, has applauded the Clerk of Parliament, Paran Tarawallie, for being gender conscious as head of the administration of Parliament, prior to the enactment of the Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Bill into law.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
