By Politico staff writer
The Resident High Court Judge in Kailahun District, Justice Francis Banks-Kamara, has discharged Musa Fayia who had earlier been convicted by a Magistrate court and was serving a four-year prison sentence.
After spending over two years at the Kailahun Correctional Centre, Fayia benefited from the nationwide judicial review of cases and was set free.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Political Party Registration Commission (PPRC) in collaboration with the National Democratic Institute has held a dialogue forum with political Parties in the eastern region to deliberate on emerging issues of national interests such as the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Bill at the Peace Garden Reservation area in Kenema.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The District focal person for leprosy and Tuberculosis in the health management team of Kenema district has disclosed that the district recorded fifteen cases of Leprosy in 2021with a total country caseload of 138 for the previous year. The national figures for 2021 have still not been released.
Speaking to Politico, Momodu Kondeh said of the 15 cases recorded in 2021, 10 of the patients would take their treatment for a period of one year while the other five would be treated within six months.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
Some customers of the Rokel Commercial Bank (RCB) in Kenema, mostly government workers, have expressed dissatisfaction over what they described as unexplained charges deducted from their salaries deposited with the bank.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Minister of Energy, Alhaji Kanja Sesay has presented to contractors twenty-two (22) containers of assorted electricity materials for the Network Rehabilitation and Expansion Project of the CLSG interconnection line commissioned last December by President Julius Maada Bio in Kenema.
Since the commissioning of the projects on the promise of providing 24 hours uninterrupted power supply to Bo and Kenema, there have been reports of intermittent power cuts from the city.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
If all goes according to plans, just over 100 Sierra Leoneans would soon be repatriated from Guinea. They are part of groups of both citizens and foreign nationals being evicted from makeshift shelters in different parts of the Guinean capital, Conakry to make way for road construction. The Sierra Leoneans had constructed shacks near a railway line that runs through the Donka community in Conakry and had refused to move despite several warnings by the police.
By Alpha Abu
The United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone, David Reimer has visited Queen Elizabeth 11 Quay at Cline Town, east of the capital Freetown to familiarise herself with the general operations of the country’s foremost seaport.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
