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By Saio Marrah

The 2021 Performance Audit Report published last month has highlighted a number of challenges affecting the successful implementation of the School Feeding Project (SEP), noting that only 37 percent of the 100 percent targeted by the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) has been achieved.

“Analysis of documents submitted by the School Feeding Secretariat disclosed that the GoSL has still not been able to meet its target of feeding 100% of children in pre-primary and primary government and government-assisted schools,” it reads.

By Abass Jalloh

The African Development Bank (ADB) has approved a thirty-six million dollars ($36,000,000) rice farming project targeting five thousand (5,000) Sierra Leonean farmers within a five-year period.

The project will be implemented in the districts of Bonthe and Pujehun by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

By politico staff writer

A Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) from the Sierra Leone Parliamentary Delegation to the African, Caribbean, Pacific, and European Union (ACP-EU) headed by Mathew Sahr Nyuma, Leader of Government Business has urged stakeholders to keep the school environments clean and safe.

The joint oversight was meant to assess EU-completed projects in the regions where construction of major bridges and rehabilitation of old classrooms and construction of new classroom blocks have taken place.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, Mohamed Lamin Tarawally has presented a bill in Parliament that seeks to replace the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) Administrator and Register General with the Executive Secretary as Secretary to the Commission.

The bill which was entitled "The Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) Act, 2022, for democratic governance” was presented to Sierra Leone’s parliament for debate on Tuesday 9^th August 2022.

By Abass Jalloh

Magistrate Isata Sellu Tucker of Pademba Road Court No.2 has remanded a man named Mustapha Fofana for allegedly wounding Abubakarr Turay, a taxi driver. 

Yesterday, 9^th August 2022, the accused appeared in court to answer to a three-count charge of wounding with intent, wounding, and assault contrary to the laws of Sierra Leone.

The charge sheet stated that on Sunday 17^th July 2022 at a Car Wash facility at Lumley in Freetown, the accused assaulted and maliciously wounded the complainant, Turay.

By Abass Jalloh 

The Prosecution in the matter between musicians Alhaji Amadu Bah aka LAJ and the State has presented for cross-examination by the Defense, of its fourth and fifth witnesses at the Magistrate Court No. 1, Pademba Road in Freetown.

LAJ was making his 14^th appearance in court yesterday following his arrest and detention on 12 June 2022 on allegations that he violently carried out a robbery at the Leonco fuel station along Water Street during an altercation between his group of friends and the pump attendants.

By Abass Jalloh

Untidy sites of businesses continue around the fence and gate of the Freetown Secondary School for Girls (FSSG) in on Hannah Benka-Coker Street despite efforts by the school authorities to have them vacate the school premise.

After several calls for action on the situation, Politico understands that some weeks ago the Police and other authorities went to the area and ordered all business people including the rickshaw (kekeh) garage situated there to vacate the area with immediate effect.