By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Mercury International and the Martin Michael Family have donated the sum of Le 100 million to the management of the Dr. Kadi A. Sesay Girls Secondary School in Port Loko District, North-Western Sierra Leone to boost the operations of the school.
By Politico staff writer
President Julius Maada Bio has appended his signature to the bill that finally abolished the death penalty from Sierra Leone’s Law books. The historic event took place at State House on Friday 8th October 2021, witnessed by dignitaries including members of the diplomatic corps in the country.
State Pathologist Dr. Simeon Owizz Koroma has told Justice Ivan Ansumana Sesay during a murder trial that the victim Mohamed Kallon was stabbed to death with a metallic object that resembled a knife.
The pathologist was testifying against Alpha Yayah Kanu and 10 others who are standing trial on at the High Court in Freetown on charges of conspiracy to commit a murder, murder, and burying a human body in a place other than a cemetery.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
One Mohamed Sesay alias Kallon, 33, was said to have confessed to the Police that he murdered one Alie Sesay on the 11th August last year at Mountain Cut, according to Inspector Mohamed Kargbo of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters in Freetown.
This evidence was revealed at the High Court in Freetown on Tuesday 5th October this year when Inspector Kargbo was testifying as the fourth prosecution witness in the murder matter involving Kallon as the accused.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Police Sergeant 11882 Hamusa Conteh from the Operational Support Division (OSD) has told Justice Komba Kamanda that he was hit at the back of his head with a machete in a land dispute that took place at Peacock Farm, Wellington on the 19th May 2019.
By Nasratu Kargbo
A civil society activist, Tamba Deen from Development Watch organisation has recommended that government capacitates and empower the Government Printing Department (GPD) with the needed logistics in order to avoid printing the country’s sensitive documents outside Sierra Leone. Speaking during the budget hearing on the 6th October 2021, Deen stated that “it is a shame for our secret documents to be printed outside Sierra Leone”.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
The Minister of Youth Affairs, Mohamed Orman Bangura on Wednesday 6th October formally launched preliminary programmes ahead of the first ever youth summit to be held in the country later this year.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
