The ruling SLPP candidate has won the Kailahun constituency 010 bye-election. Provisional results signed by the Regional returning officer, Eastern region, Commissioner Marian Sia Nyuma Moijueh indicate that Zainab Kama Brima took over 70% of the votes, followed by an independent candidate Ibrahim Sylvester Jusu Hengela with 21% and the APC’s John Allieu with 8%.
According to NEC figures turnout was 56%.
By Francis H. Murray
In what seems to be a reaction to the alarming spate of electricity meter theft, residents in the Western Area of Freetown have accused officials of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) of fraudulently reselling stolen meters at cheaper rate.
Victims of this illegal syndicate say that officials of the national power grid have proffered no solution to the problem even after several complaints but would rather suggest other illegal ways to access old meters which are no longer registered in their system.
By Prince J. Musa in Kenema
The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces have re-established the second infantry brigade headquarters for the Eastern region in Kenema city, more than a decade after it had been closed down by the previous government.
The official ceremony witnessed by top government officials and local leaders took place on Friday 26 February 2021 at Reservation, the same site of the last brigade.
By Alpha Abu
The Director General of the Human Resource Office (HRMO) Ansu Tucker has given an insight into the reforms taking place in the civil service, during the weekly press briefing organised by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Freetown.
He said the European Union is supporting the process in the sector through HRMO and the Public Service Commission, the latter being the regulatory body for the former
Eastern Polytechnic based in Kenema on Friday 26 February 2021 received a consignment of learning and teaching materials from the Concordia University of Edmonton at a ceremony held at the Ahmed Tejan Kabbah Hall.
The consignments, according to the college’s Public Relations unit include modernised computers and advanced text books for several disciplines, a gesture said to have been pioneered and facilitated by a chemist, Dr. Alfred Morie Saffa.
Stakeholders in the cooperative sector on Friday 22nd February 2021 ended a two-day validation workshop for the first policy on Cooperative Societies in Sierra Leone.
The workshop, which was held at the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Conference Hall at Youyi Building in Freetown, was attended by members of the various cooperative societies across the country, among officials of the ministry and other development agencies with interest in the sector.
By Francis H. Murray
The High Court in Bo presided over by Justice A. T Ganda has convicted Bocakrie Sheku Mattia, Supervisor on Contract with Statistics Sierra Leone’s Bo office on a charge of soliciting an advantage, contrary to law.
Delivering his judgment on 25th February 2021, Justice Ganda ordered Mattia to pay a fine of fifty million Leones (Le 50,000,000) within one month effective from the date of the judgment or serve a five-year jail term.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
