RVS Bhullar, Managing Director of Airtel Sierra Leome
In the last one week, usually reliable sources in Freetown and in New Delhi have been intimating Politico that the Indian mobile phone operator, Airtel has terminated the services of IBM in running their Call Centre and I.T. departments in Sierra Leone.
President Ernest Bai Koroma has reshuffled the top of the civil service and the public service.
A release from State House announces that Ernest SA Surrur has been appointed Secretary to Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service. Until this announcement Surrur was Director General of Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) which position has now gone to a long-standing civil servant, Abdul R. Bayoh. Until his appointment, Baryoh was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education.
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
The Kono District Council says it is introducing its “home source revenue,” a new tax system in the eastern district since the re-introduction in 2004 of local government in Sierra Leone.
Council evaluator, Mohamed Sahr Philip Yajah, in charge of property taxes and business licenses said that in the eight years of its existence the council had not collected house, property rates and other licenses because the township was destroyed by rebels during the 11-year brutal war.
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