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By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Easmon Ngakui on 8 January 2021 formally presented new judges and state counsels to stakeholders in Kenema district for both Kenema and Kailahun districts in eastern Sierra Leone.

Speaking at the ceremony at the law court in Kenema, Ngakui said that it was the first time in the history of the country for Kailahun to get a resident high court judge. He therefore admonished the stakeholders to cooperate with the new members of the bench in their region.

By Saio Marrah

Members of Parliament have issued an ultimatum to the Minister of Lands and Housing, Dr. Denis Sandy to submit to the Clerk of Parliament a comprehensive resister of all state land by districts, revenue generated from the lists and other related documents against the date of the resumption of the House which is on 26 January 2021.

Speaker of Parliament, Dr. Abass Bundu had earlier made the announcement before the commencement of the final debate of the 2021 Appropriation Act.

By Francis H. Murray

Twelve people have been appointed to the position of Notary Public by the Sierra Leone Judiciary.

The appointees, according to Notary Act of 1937, are mandated by law among other things to certify acts of honour, authenticate instruments, and certify copies of instruments and the attestation of instruments outside the country.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

Statistics Sierra Leone has in an effort to popularize findings of the 2019 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) report engaged journalists in Freetown for better understanding of the key findings of the survey and its methodologies.

The report among others revealed a decline in the Maternal Mortality rate in Sierra Leone compared to the 2013 data.

Happy New Year to you! We hope 2021 will be a much better and more progressive year than 2020 was. That was a year which we would love to forget but impossible to forget. It was, by far, the worst the world has seen certainly in our lifetime.

For us at FreeMedia Group (the publishers of Politico Newspaper) the year was very challenging like it was for all other media outlets. Advertising was few and far between, sales dropped considerably, while production costs increased exponentially with some suppliers using Covid19 as a fig leaf for their price increases.

By Francis H. Murray

The recently published Auditor General’s report has placed the country’s COVID-19 response outfit on the spot over its reported inability to account for certain items procured in 2020 for its operations.

According to the Deputy Auditor General, Tamba Momoh, items procured by National COVID-19 Emergency Response Center (NaCOVERC) which included 47 touchscreen Intel Laptops, a 50 KVA generator and vehicles were not the exact ones delivered for inspection during the audit.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Sierra Leone Police has in a press statement warned against sand mining at the Hamilton community and other restricted coastal areas in the Western Area district of Freetown.

“It has come to the notice of the Sierra Leone Police that some unpatriotic people have the habit of engaging in illegal sand mining at Hamilton and other restricted coastal areas in the western rural district” the release states.

It warns defaulters to desist forthwith of face arrest and prosecution.