Citizens of Sorogbeima and Makpele chiefdoms, now resident in the United States of America and United Kingdom, have issued a statement rejecting the agreement between Pujehun district and Aristeus Palm Oil Company. The foreign agribusiness company has concession on a 47,567-hectare arable land in Sorogbema chiefdom, according to a campaign group Green Scenery while West Africa Agriculture Number 2 Ltd has 30,700 hectares.
Father ‘rapes’ daughters
By Jenneh Braima
Two sisters, aged 15 and 17 years, names withheld, have accused their biological father, MIE Pratt (name abbreviated for editorial reasons), of consistently sexually abusing them
“He harassed, beat and subdued us violently before he would rape us” the elder of the sisters told Politico in-between sobs, adding “I was just about 13 in 2008 when he first raped and deflowered us”.
Five arrested for armed robbery in Bo
By Richard Ngevao
A joint divisional police operation led by the deputy operations officer for the Bo west division, Inspector Augustine Kabbia in the early hours of Tuesday morning led to the arrest of five men suspected to be armed robbers along Tikonkor Road in Bo.
Guinean national sent to High Court for ‘jamba’
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A Guinean national, who was allegedly caught with 36kg of cannabis sativa in Sumbuya village in the border town of Kambia, between Sierra Leone and Guinea, has been committed to High Court in Freetown.
The accused, AlkalyTraoure, who only spoke Susu before Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2,was under preliminary investigations on two countcharge of unlawful possession and transportation of cannabis sativa, all contrary to law.
Through an interpreter he pleaded guilty to the charges.
Parliamentary committee probes FCC
By Crispina Cummings
The parliamentary committee on local government and rural development on Tuesday met the administrative wing of the Freetown City Council at their Wallace Johnson Street office.
Chairman of the committee, Abubakarr Koroma, MP, told the staff that they had gone to check on projects executed by the council and its sectors and to also verify
