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Month: February 2019

Politics & Law

Four sentenced to three years imprisonment each for corruption

February 13, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2019: Justice Ivan Sesay of the High Court of Sierra Leone sitting in Kenema, yesterday Tuesday 12th February 2019, convicted four former public officials for various corruption offences. Abubakarr Sidique Turay – former Accountant at the Kenema City Council; Edward Kargbo – former Expenditure Clerk [Read More]

Politics & Law

Former deputy director general of NASSIT detained again by ACC

February 13, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2019: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has today been informed by sources at the Anti-Corruption Commission that the former Deputy Director-General of NASSIT – Mr. Gibril Saccoh, has been detained after failing to honour an out of court agreement to repay stolen public funds. It is [Read More]

Politics & Law

Commission of inquiry questions former ministers about missing $14 million Ebola funds

February 13, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 14

Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2019: It could be recalled that whilst poor innocent Sierra Leoneans were dying in their hundreds every day during the Ebola outbreak, government officials entrusted with funds for managing the emergency health crisis were playing fast and loose with the funds that were [Read More]

Education and Health

Sierra Leone now ranks high in Global Disease-Fighters’ League Table

February 13, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2019: Sierra Leone is turning the corner in its efforts to combat disease, after over 5,000 people were killed by the deadly Ebola virus in 2013-2015. The country’s poor healthcare systems fell under the weight of the Epidemic because of decades of neglect, lack of [Read More]

Politics & Law

ACC recovers more stolen funds from corrupt officials of former government

February 13, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2019: The former resident engineer of Sierra Leone’s National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), has made another payment of One Hundred Million Leones to the Anti-Corruption Commission as part settlement of a Five Hundred Million Leones of stolen funds, he is to return to [Read More]

Economy & Business

Rural land reform is central to reducing poverty and migration to cities

February 12, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2019: Millions of peasant farmers in the rural areas of Sierra Leone do not own land of their own but have to rent from land owning families. Added to their poverty is the fact that they depend on Shylock money lenders to secure [Read More]

Politics & Law

Clean political discourse – Don’t lose your temper – nobody wants it

February 12, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2019: There is an insidious trend of behaviour that is creeping on to our public life, and this is evidently so on our media platforms today. It has become increasingly common to see people with authority and those in the public eye, displaying [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone iron ore mining is boosted by Sierra Leone Mining Company

February 11, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2019: Sierra Leone Mining Company Ltd., is taking the lead in a new phase of mining explosion in Sierra Leone at the Marampa iron ore mines, where the country’s speaker of parliament – Dr Abass Bundu, paid a visit to gain first-hand experience of the [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone government tackles rape epidemic

February 11, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2019: The head of state of the Republic of Sierra Leone, President Julius Maada Bio, declared last week that rape has become a national emergency, and went on to state that anyone caught molesting minors would be punished by life in prison. This [Read More]

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