Month: December 2020

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2020: Sierra Leone’s Covid-19 audit report uncovers “massive” corruption in the management and utilisation of funds by the National Coronavirus Emergency Response Centre (NaCOVERC) and other Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies. (Photo above – Head of NaCOVERC, Mr Solomon Jamiru). The report highlights [Read More]

Yankuba Kai-Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2020: In the light of the historic corruption scandal uncovered by the 2019 audit report in Sierra Leone, President Bio should now seriously consider dissolving his government and call a mid-term election. A president who said he is fighting corruption but his government [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2020: There is some consternation in Sierra Leone over news of the Chinese construction of a foreign service academy in Freetown to educate a privileged few. Many in Sierra Leone are saying that, if president Bio seriously believes in his manifesto promise to widen access [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2020: Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) convict Augustine Gbao is the first member of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) to benefit from Conditional Early Release.  The former RUF convict was transferred on Sunday from Mpanga Prison in Rwanda back to his native Sierra [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 December 2020: There is intense debate and speculation on social media and across the political divide in Sierra Leone, about what should now happen to the findings of the damning report into the government’s mismanagement of the country’s financial affairs, published last week by Audit Service [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 December 2020: The issue of “land grab” is not a new phenomenon to many Sierra Leoneans, especially to those with first-hand experience as victims in this dark art. This is predominantly so in the urban areas. In fact, land grabbing has been around since [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio last Thursday, spoke about the stalled constitutional review process, efforts at reforming the criminal justice system and human rights – including the ending of the death penalty in a meeting held at State House with the country’s Human Rights [Read More]