By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Former Presidential candidate for the APC in the 2018 elections, Samura Kamara was on the 28th July 2021 at the Court of Appeal in Freetown to challenge the ‘adverse’ findings of the Commissions of Inquiry (COI) led by Justice Biobele Georgewill, incriminating him.
By Alpha Abu
The President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmed Sahid Nasralla says the recently constituted interim executive of journalists covering proceedings in the house of parliament would not be recognised by the association.
Speaking yesterday afternoon to Politico on the issue, Nasralla said Parliament had no right to select an interim executive for members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery as there was already in place an executive representing the press corps in the house.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Chairperson Parliamentary Committee on Fisheries and Marine Resources, Neneh Lebbie has expressed concern over the increase in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities in Sierra Leonean waters. She said she was reliably informed by the indigenes of Sulima that boats often come from Liberia to fish at night and leave in the morning hours.
By Nasratu Kargbo
In an effort to effectively operate the day to day activities of the state, the Human Resource Management Office has expressed determination to review its Civil Service Code, regulations and rules.
The Director General of the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) Ansu Samuel Tucker said the government is determined to create a civil service that would meet the needs and welfare of its workers with the aim of making the civil service efficient and effective in its service delivery.
By Saio Marrah
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday 27th July 2021 in its press release announced the indictment of two Western Area Urban District COVID Emergency Recovery Centre (DICORVERC) staff for allegedly selling COVID-19 vaccination card to non-vaccine takers.
In what Sierra Leone’s Minister of Energy, Kanja Sesay has referred to as “a game changer”, the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has committed to provide $217 million in debt financing for a new 83 megawatt power plant in Freetown.
A statement on the DFC website says that with sponsorship from Milele Energy and TCQ Power Limited, the Western Area Power Generation Project (WAPGP), will generate and sell electricity to EDSA as per a 20-year power purchase agreement.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an investigation into corruption allegations levied against the management of Serabu Community Hospital in Bo district by the hospital’s donor partners -, ‘German Doctors’ (GD).
The Charity, in a letter addressed to the Bishop of the diocese of Bo which owns and manages the facility said they would cease cooperation with the community hospital effective 1st August 2021 if they were not assured that corruption and other management problems would be addressed.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
