Yankuba Kai Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2020: Mob justice undermines the rule of law and makes the work of our police more difficult. Standing next to her husband – the president of Sierra Leone, Mrs Fatima Jabbie Bio two days ago, called on people to ‘strip naked and [Read More]
Jusu Kallon Esq.: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2020: So much to take home from the just concluded treason trial involving the country’s former Defence and Internal Affairs Minister, Mr. Alfred Paolo Conteh. I am minded to focus on one. Celebrating the verdict, my brother and colleague, Ady Macauley who [Read More]
Ibrahim Tommy Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2020: The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) welcomes the conclusion of the trial of Retired Major Palo Conteh and two others, and particularly applauds the expeditious nature of the proceedings. (Photo above – Attorney General Schwartz). In April, Rtd. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: In Mattru Jong, Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone yesterday, Friday 3 July 2020 , President Dr Julius Maada Bio introduced a Mobile Training and Support (MOTS) digital learning platform, whilst also unveiling the pilot distribution of laboratory equipment and uniforms for health workers [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: Sierra Leone’s members of Parliament last Thursday, began their marathon debate on the statement delivered to parliament by President Bio, at his State opening of the Third Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone, on Thursday, [Read More]
Cornelius Deveaux: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: Certainly, right thinking Sierra Leoneans – and by extension the wider citizenry, will be appalled by a post on the official Facebook page of the SLPP government Ministry of Information and Communications, intending to purport that Sierra Leone’s Judiciary is going through [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 July 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio was in Bo, southern Sierra Leone yesterday, where he visited the newly refurbished Covid-19 care and treatment facilities, and distributed much needed equipment and uniforms to healthcare workers. Praising the interventions of partner organisations, president Bio said: “Enhancing the [Read More]
Yankuba Kai Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 July 2020: No jury should convict a man when the prosecution blocked vital material evidence that could exonerate him. This was what I wrote two days before the jury reached their verdict. The Paopa government supporters who had already convicted Paola Conteh for treason [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 July 2020: “Mr Foreman, members of the jury, I need not remind you that in a criminal trial the accused bears no burden: the Prosecution charged him and brought him here and therefore, the law requires that they should prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. [Read More]
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