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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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