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By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Detective Sergeant 18307 Kargbo Abdul Aziz of the Sierra Leone Police has told Justice Manuela Harding that their investigations implicated a student Ibrahim Kargbo alias Junior in the sexual penetration of an 11-year-old child.

The detective was testifying as the fourth prosecution witness at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown on Tuesday 7^th December 2021.

By Nasratu Kargbo

 Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire have finally signed the TRANSCO CLSG project in Abidjan on Wednesday 1^st December 2021. The project which seeks to import electricity from Côte d’Ivoire to Sierra Leone is set to benefit the Southeastern cities of Bo and Kenema.

By Saio Marrah

President Julius Maada Bio, in a commemoration of the World Disability Day, has acknowledged that women and children living with disability are the hardest hit and farthest left behind especially during this period of COVID-19.  Speaking at State House, on Friday 3 December, in observance of the day, President Bio said the theme, “leadership and participation of persons with disability towards an inclusive accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 world”, resonates with his government’s strategic national development plan.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Manuela Harding has remanded in prison David Kamara alias ‘Mandela’ on allegations that he sexually penetrated a 15-year-old school girl he was supposed to provide with private lessons.

Kamara was arraigned at the Sexual Offences Model Court on the 2^nd December this year.

The State Prosecutor, Oladipo Robin-Mason Jr. led in the alleged victim as first prosecution witness.

By Politico staff writer

Police in Bo are investigating 53 males and one female over the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl who was seen in a video that went viral on social media lying by the road side along the Gumasaa and Nyandehun highway in the Yawbeko Chiefdom, Bonthe District with a long metal inserted into her private part, as she gasped for breath.

By Saio Marrah

Member  of Parliament for the governing Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), Wuyatta Bernadette Songa of Constituency 008, Kailahun District, has called on her fellow members of parliament to  support repeal of the 1956 Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) Code of Conduct, in a bid to upholding professional standards.

By Saio Marrah

Member of Parliament, Kadiatu Davies of Constituency 110, Western Area Rural District, has on Thursday 25^th Movember, 2021 called on the government for swift action that could lead to the completion of the Number Two/Tokeh road under construction.