By Alpha Abu
The Speaker of Parliament Dr Abbas Bundu on Thursday 18th March 2021 instructed the Committee on Trade and Industry to look into the operations of the Sierra Leone Standard Bureau to ascertain the factual state of affairs at the institution that is charged with the responsibility of conducting quantity and quality tests on goods.
By Francis H. Murray
Legal arguments have ended in the Court of Appeal in the Commission of Inquiry case involving Diana Konomanyi, the former Lands Minister in the government of Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and Sogefel-Sarl, a Construction Company.
The three judges: Fatmata Bintu Alhadi, Komba Kamanda and Tonia Barnet have reserved their ruling.
By Francis H. Murray
There were emotional scenes at the High Court in Freetown after the accused in one of the most high profile murder trials in Sierra Leone’s recent history were acquitted by a jury after just over one hour of deliberation. The 12-member jury was unanimous that Mariama Sajor Barrie and Ibrahim Bah not guilty of the alleged murder of five-year old Khadija Saccoh.
By Alpha Abu
Former Vice President Dr Albert Joe Demby has died. News of his death was first shared on social media on Saturday 20th March 2021. Dr Demby a medical practitioner by profession came from relative political obscurity to be chosen in 1996 as running mate by the late president Dr Ahmad Tejan Kabba in the wake of the first multi- party elections in Sierra Leone in nearly 30 years.
Before that Dr Demby spent a greater part of his life providing medical services to communities in Kenema.
The Chinese-owned Kingho Investment Company says one of its trains carrying iron ore from its mining site at Ferengbeya village in Tonkolili district to the port of Pepel hit a 2 year-old girl on Saturday 20th March, 2021 near Yonkoro village in Portloko district.
By Francis H. Murray
Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice who is also Chairman of the Council of Legal Education (CLE) Desmond Babatunde Edwards has said that the Council would be exploring and devising “up-to-date state of the art strategies to make the school more accessible in district headquarter towns across the country and abroad”.
A sensitization campaign on the cybercrime bill is taking place across the country under the auspices of the Ministry of Information and Communication following recommendations by the parliament. When communications minister Mohamed Rahman Swaray introduced the bill in parliament, both sides of the house urged the Minister and his team to spend the next two weeks discussing the details of the bill throughout the country for the ordinary people to understand what it intends to achieve.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
