Elkass Sannoh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2019: Disaster awaits the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), if president Bio does not tackle the growing instability caused by the Prince Harding and Batilo Songa leadership war. The ruling SLPP is confronted with a lot of challenges that are now shaking [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2019: Thursday, 14 February 2019, marked day five of commissions of inquiry proceedings into alleged mismanagement and corruption by ministers and officials of the previous APC government under the leadership of president Ernest Bai Koroma. There was a beehive of activities, as all three commissions [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2019: Yesterday, Friday 15 February 2019, president Julius Maada Bio received thirty garbage collection trucks donated by China, to assist the government’s and local councils’ efforts to keep their towns and cities clean. The president received the trucks on behalf of the people of Sierra [Read More]
Majeks Jacob Walker (Jnr): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2019: The Commission of Inquiry (COI) opened in Freetown this week, and early on in the proceedings, there was a notable exchange between Mr. Ady Macauley and the learned COI judge. Mr Ady Macauley is representing Mr Paolo Conteh and another [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2019: There was consternation yesterday among supporters and leaders of Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party, when a Commission of Inquiry led by the Nigerian Judge – Justice Biobele Georgewil, revealed a list of senior former government ministers – including president Koroma, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2019: Early this week, president Julius Maada Bio presented the 20th Report of the Committee of Ten African Heads of State and Government, otherwise known as the C-10, at the plenary session of the African Union (AU) summit. The president highlighted a series of actions [Read More]
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]
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]
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]
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