By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Parliamentary Committee on Internal Affairs oversight has engaged the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) East and its personnel, at the police headquarters Eastern Region. The aim of the engagement was to analyze their functions and give advice accordingly, where necessary.
By Politico staff writer
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Mines and Mineral Resources, in the Parliament of Sierra Leone, Saa Emerson Lamina, who also doubles as the leader of the Coalition 4 Change (C4C) in Parliament, has urged miners to act diligently in their mining activities together with all the mines and minerals laws of the country.
He said, if they act with due diligence in their mining activities, the government would improve on the already created enabling environment for them.
By Abass Jalloh
The 2021 Open Budget Survey (OBS) Report launched by Budget Advocacy Network (BAN), indicated that most of Sierra Leone’s government budget reports were not timely published for public access. This was said to have covered the period 2012 to 2021.
The focus of the survey was Pre-Budget Statement, Executive’s Budget Proposal, Enacted Budget, Citizens Budget, In-Year Reports, Mid-Year Review, Year-End Report, and Audit Report.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Leader of the main opposition party in Parliament Chernor Maju Bah representing constituency 126 has asked that the justice system expedite the Audit Service case.
Speaking in parliament on the 30th May 2022 on the issue of justice in relation to President Julius Maada Bio’s address to parliament last month, Bah said: “The office of the auditor general is very sensitive, the more they expedite it (tribunal), the better for us as a nation”.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Parliamentary sitting was called off yesterday after the air cooling systems in the chamber stopped working effectively, drawing the frustration of the lawmakers.
The angry MPs later addressed the media, making their feelings known. Siaka Musa Sama from Pujehun district said he was extremely disappointed, having to travel all the way so he can contribute to a bill titled the Tobacco and Nicotine Act of 2021, which he described as very important, only for the issue of the air conditioner to surface.
By Mabinty M. Kamara and Abass Jalloh
The National Elections Watch (NEW) has in a press statement called on the government of Sierra Leone to cancel data generated from the 2021 Mid-Term census for which provisional results were released on Tuesday, 31st May 2022, noting that it was ‘flawed’ and not representative of the country’s population.
By Abass Jalloh
The Sierra Leone Electricity and Water Regulatory Commission (SLEWRC) has announced new tariffs and prices for all categories in the supplying and selling of water across the country.
The new tariffs and prices will come into effect on the 15th of June 2022, according to the Director-General of the SLEWRC, Dr. Emmanuel Mannah, upon presenting the current and approved prices yesterday 2nd June 2022 at the weekly press briefing hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Freetown.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
