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By Politico Staff Writer

The Office of National Security (ONS) is investigating several threats and remarks made by unknown people against the facilities of Oil Marketing Companies (OMC).

This fear prodded the ONS, Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), and other agencies to hold an inter-agency and stakeholders meeting on the 1^st December 2021 at the Government Independent Secondary School in Kissy, Freetown.

By Alpha Abu

A good number of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) have been acknowledged for following due process in their procurement dealings. This was contained in the National Public Procurement Authority NPPA’s second-quarter bulletin for the year 2021 that was formally launched at Tower Hill, Freetown on Tuesday 30^th November 2021.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Public Relations Officer of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party in Pujehun district will appear before a Magistrate on Tuesday 7^th December, 2021 to answer a six count charge in a case brought against him by the chairman of the district council Sheikh Sowa.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

18-year-old George Walker was arraigned at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown on 30^th November this year on a one-count indictment of sexual penetration of a child.

The State Prosecutor, Oladipo Robin-Mason Jr. led Detective Sergeant 8385, Rebecca Conteh, as a prosecution witness.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Adrian Fisher has ordered the main opposition party, All People’s Congress (APC) to pay a conditional fine of 50 million Leones if they fail to address the issue of ‘unresolved membership’ within the party in a fortnight.

The Judge handed down his ruling on the 1^st of December this year after the plaintiff in the matter, Alfred Peter Conteh through his lawyer, filed an application for contempt against the second defendant, Alhaji Osman Foday Yansaneh and the third defendant, the APC Party.

Nasratu Kargbo

Chairperson for the Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone (HRCSL) Patricia Narsu Ndanema has said that the complaints received by the commission increased in 2020 from 326 in 2019 to 363. She said this on Wednesday 1^st December 2021, during the presentation of the 14^th edition of the state of human rights report 2020.

By Saio Marrah

The leader of the Coalition for Change (C4C) in parliament, Emerson Saa Lamina, has called on the government to invest and develop various tourism centres in Kono District to boost the country’s economy.

The MP, while debating the government’s 2022 annual budget at the house of parliament on Friday 26^th November 2021 applauded the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs’ intervention in identifying certain localities in the country.