SEM News Brief

City Council workers go haywire – Workers of the Freetown City Council have slammed the doors of the Mayor’s palace entrance in a protest strike following their non receipt of backlog salaries of over a six months deficit. The closure of the gate denied the Acting Mayor Gibril Kanu access into the building on Tuesday March 21.

PMDC Chair to pay millions – The leader and chairman of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change, Charles Francis Margai, has been demanded to pay a fine of five million Leones in court to a petitioner claim in a suspension matter of four National Executive members of his party who filed an interlocutory motion against him in the law court of Sierra Leone over their illegal suspensions. It is reported that Charles Margai opted for an out of court settlement of the matter but the court frowned at his decision for taking a unilateral decision of suspending the members and demanded him to reinstate them.

Retired Captain Strasser reacts to attacks – Chairman of the defunct National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC), Retired Captain Valentine Strasser, has said the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party are launching a tirade of attacks on his person for simply expressing his opinion on the current political situation in the country. Strasser recently declared his support to the ruling APC in contrast to his former number two’s political decision who is now flag bearer for the SLPP, Julius Maada Bio. The former junta believes he was right to express his views and opinion about the leadership of Maada Bio who he says has excess baggage on his career record.

Police testifies in SLPP/APC riot case – Detective police constable 6372 Rogers ME attached at the Bo Criminal Investigations Department has testified in the SLPP/APC fracas trials which resulted in stoning Julius Maada Bio on September 9 last year. He said he interviewed the accused Bomblast in Krio and obtained his records in English. Details of his statement summarised the role Hon. Foday Rado Yokie played in vandalising offices of the All People’s Congress in Bo Southern Sierra Leone that led to his arrest and subsequent detention at the Pademba Road maximum prisons in Freetown.

SLPP calls police to arrest six alleged thugs – The main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party have said those who made confession on Tuesday to have been the brains behind political violence in the country should be arrested. The opposition maintained that if President Koroma is serious to weed political violence in the country he has to set clear examples on those who clear evidence have shown that they are culprits of such menace. Their earlier position place them comfort in argument that they would hate a situation whereby the ruling party is trying to heap allegations that are tantamount to discredit their reputation.

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