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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2021: Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister – Professor David John Francis has today told the Sierra Leone Telegraph, that he will not be distracted by fake propaganda, stressing that his “focus is on His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio’s New Direction agenda of accelerated delivery”. Speaking exclusively to the author of the Sierra Leone Telegraph, following request for his response to the barrage of allegations of impropriety in his office published by the Africanist Press, the Chief Minister said he will not be drawn to responding to or commentin...

Party. the former conservative deputy prime minister saying that it is a nonconservative thing, pointing out that— is a nonconservative thing, pointing out that channel 4 was created under margaret _ out that channel 4 was created under margaret thatcher and was designed at the _ margaret thatcher and was designed at the time to stimulate investment in private _ at the time to stimulate investment in private production companies and so on _ in private production companies and so on so— in private production companies and so on so he — in private production companies and so on. so he is a...

He also, like me, is a politician, stood on a manifesto commitment to be very tough on people that commit these forms of crimes and that includes people that are in prison to consider releasing and that includes people that are in prison. to consider releasing pitchfork, who committed these rapes and brutal murders against two innocent teenage girls is wrong by anyone�*s standards and i would press my colleagues in government to reconsider that decision, get the parole board to reconsider and if necessary, let's make further changes to the parole board rules. if the parole board isn't fit fo...

What's your reaction to that? i have been in contact this morning with ministerial colleagues and i am aware of that and my message to my colleagues in government is that you are right, we are pushing legislation in parliament to ensure that individuals that commit this form of egregious crimes are frankly never released. if pitchfork had committed these awful offences today against two teenage girls, it is highly unlikely that he would ever be released. the parole board has washed its hands and said that they have done what is required to do by law and the matter now moves to politicians and ...

So the parole board certainly played politics back then, one might argue, and the message today is the parole board has made the decision, there is a process, that process is now in the hands of the secretary of state forjustice. it is right that he takes legal advice. he also, like me, is a politician, we stood on a manifesto commitment to be very tough on people that commit these forms of crimes and that includes people that are in prison. to consider releasing pitchfork, who committed these rapes and brutal murders against two innocent teenage girls, is wrong by anyone�*s standards. and i...