By Saio Marrah
The Consortium for Good Governance, Human Rights and Democracy (CGHRD), a rights based-entity that is focused on the promotion of democratic accountability, good governance and socio-economic justice, has pleaded to the presiding judge to grant bail to Mohamed Kamaraimba Mansaray, Leader and Chairman of one of the opposition parties, Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), who is on trial for alleged sexual penetration of a minor.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Medical Superintendent at the Kenema Government Hospital, Dr. Ibrahim Kapuwa has on the 30th July 2021 disclosed that doctors transferred to the hospital do not have the required accommodation and environment to do their job.
Dr. Kapuwa told Politico that doctors posted to the district are not provided with the required accommodation, and described the situation as a major reason why most medical practitioners have refused to come to the provinces to work.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Rokel Commercial Bank has challenged an order by the Appeal Court that the bank honours payment of 7 billion Leones to businessman, Christian Ogoo.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
An archivist Brima Thullah who is a Prosecution witness in the trial of Alimamy Kamara who served as Minister of Youth Affairs and Ambassador to Iran in the last APC government, has told the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) court in Freetown that he spent more than 2 hours unsuccessfully looking for the asset declaration forms of the accused.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
A coalition of Civil Society Organizations working in the rights and minerals sector has expressed dissatisfaction over what it described as a “snail pace” manner in which the review processes of the 2009 Mines and Minerals Development Act has been going.
The coalition known as the Natural Resource Governance and Economic Justice-Network (NaRGEJ) also noted that the review process has not garnered the much needed public consultations that can make the document to be owned by the people of Sierra Leone.
Police have seized hundreds of assorted military uniforms and other paraphernalia that were shipped into the country and went past through the Queen Elizabeth Quay.
The Director of the Criminal Investigations Department, Superintendent Richard PG Roberts says six people have been arrested following the seizure of the varying quantities of military uniforms at Percival Street in Freetown.
He told Politico that the items were discovered in a garage, after police had acted on a tipoff.
By Alpha Abu
Three senior officials in the previous All Peoples Congress (APC) government, two of them already deceased, have had their properties confiscated and forfeited to the state. This was contained in a statement from the Office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice dated 28 July 2021. The move was as a result of an order by a Government White Paper in the wake of three Commissions of Inquiry that the present SLPP government instituted to look into the stewardship of the past regime.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
