Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: As anger grows in Freetown over the SLPP government’s continuing forceful repossession of lands and property owned by Krio families in the capital into State ownership, the country’s Bar Association representing Barristers, has today published a statement condemning the government’s action. The ministry of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: Last week the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph contacted Sierra Leone’s minister of lands – Dr Denis Sandy, about allegations of heavy-handed government grabbing of ancestral land belonging to Krio families in the country’s capital Freetown. Minister Sandy was unapologetic, if not undiplomatic [Read More]
Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: A concerned constitutionalist has spoken about the many complaints made against Sierra Leone’s Minister of Lands – Dr. Denis Sandy. He said that the fundamental role of any government is the protection and promotion of the rights and liberties of its citizens, [Read More]
Winstanley R. Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2019: Counting down to our 58th Independence Anniversary, our country stands more polarized in the last twelve months, than ever before. We keep denying it, but that fact continues to be inadvertently acknowledged. And it comes out effortlessly from statements of [Read More]
Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2019: I have known and been associated with the leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) party since 1968 when they decided to hold bye-elections to fill the large number of vacancies all over the country. The vacancies themselves arose [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2019: President Julius Maada Bio’s delivery of his televised and radio broadcast state opening of parliament address, was overshadowed today by the spectacular walking out by opposition APC MPs, who are protesting against what they see as the president’s abuse of power. But their walk [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2019: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC) members of parliament, today staged a dramatic walk out of the country’s parliament as the president was about to deliver his state opening of parliament address. Dressed in their red communist combatant style beret, the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2019: Sierra Leone’s vice president Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh yesterday called on citizens to respect and obey the laws of the land; and that no one should be worried as long as they remain peaceful and law abiding. Speaking at yesterday’s commemoration of International Labour [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 May 2019: Sierra Leone’s parliament yesterday, Tuesday 30th April 2019, approved president Bio’s appointment of Mr Augustine Foday Ngobie as the new Deputy Commissioner of the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). His predecessor – Mr Shollay Davies who was appointed five years ago, by president Ernest Bai [Read More]
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