By Nasratu Kargbo
As a way to revamp the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), the establishment’s Peace Keeping and Law Enforcement Academy has conducted a three-day training of trainers’ course.
The training was designed, tailored and customized to match with the SLP’s needs and international expectations. The training dealt with relevant sectors such as service delivery, ethics, corruption, and discipline and hostility reduction.
By Saio Marrah
As a way of enhancing affordable housing and creating decent communities, the Ministry of Housing and Country Planning has disclosed plans to introduce a Mortgage financing housing scheme that will see the construction of 25,000 houses in different parts of Sierra Leone.
By Politico Staff Writer
The United Nations through their Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Morris Tidball-Binz has applauded the Government of Sierra Leone for the repeal of the death penalty through a letter addressed Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Switzerland, Dr. Lansana Gberie.
Politico staff writer
The Bo district Coronavirus Response Centre Coordinator has in an engagement with the national response body, NaCOVERC said they have been robustly meeting residents across the district on the new COVID -19 preventive measures announced by President Julius Maada Bio and the need for the people to be vaccinated but that insufficient vaccines is a challenge.
David Fortune called on the national COVID -19 response body to ensure that vaccines were available for the population to access.
By Politico staff writer
As part of the ongoing rural electrification project in Sierra Leone, the Minister of Energy Alhaji Kanja Sesay has on 24th July 2021 powered up the solar mini-grid in Madina town, Kambia district.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Justice Cosmotina Jarrett has on the 29th July 2021 at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Court in Freetown sent one Gibrilla Kamara and Michael Abdulai on remand for selling fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates.
Both Kamara and Abdulai were staff of the Western Area Urban District Coronavirus Response Centre (DICOVERC). According to the ACC, both accused were serving as Mobilisation Officers.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Consultant at the Attorney General’s Office, Lahai Momoh Farma has admitted that no specific decision has been made regarding those inmates who remained on death row before the bill abolishing the death penalty was passed by the Sierra Leone Parliament on 23 July 2021.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
