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Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2021:
Discourse and controversy surrounding the functions and independence of the Office of the Auditor-General of Sierra Leone are not new.
(Photo above: Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, former Attorney General of Sierra Leone).
As Attorney-General in 2016, our offices issued a Legal Opinion on the subject matter: that the Auditor-General’s Office is a creature of the Constitution, and any other law inconsistent with that mandate under the Constitution is ultra vires.
The Fiscal Management Control Act (“FMCA”) was drafted and prepared during my tenure, and it did not amend nor intended to affect the provisions relative to the Audit Service.
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2021:
The Atlantic slave trade lasted for over 400 years, but freedom lasts forever. Slavery was commonly known as a condition in which someone owns and controls a human being. This meant that the law considered such persons as property and deprived of the rights that are usually accorded to free persons. Historians put it that on the 25th of March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books and became law.
However, Slave Trade continued until 1811 and effectively ended in 1787. Historians have given us many reasons and factors that led to the abolition of the trade, including the work of philanthropists like Granville Sharp and William Wilberforce. Others cite the coincidence with the French Revolution, the Maroon uprisings, and other individual acts of resistance.
Lansana Fofanah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2021:
Demonstrating leadership by example, the President of Sierra Leone, His Excellency, Julius Maada Bio, his Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, and key government officials are among the first Sierra Leoneans to take the first dose of newly arrived Coronavirus vaccines.
This was after the government had engaged development partners on Friday 12th March 2021 on plans for a nationwide rollout of the vaccines.
The Deputy Leader and Chairman of the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party – Minkailu Mansaray, and Secretary-General – Alhaji Osman Foday Yansaneh, were also among those taking the vaccine at State House on Monday 15th March 2021.
Concerned Sierra Leoneans: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2021:
We write to formally draw your attention to our growing concerns with respect to the unmitigated violations of human, civil and political rights, and the industrial scale corruption within the echelons of the current government led by President Julius Maada Bio. Bio’s government came to power on the back of firm promises to, inter alia, fight corruption and lawlessness; to foster peace and tranquillity by ensuring full respect for, and the protection of, every Sierra Leonean’s civil, political and human rights. However, the reality on the ground today cannot be further from the literature in Bio’s election manifesto.