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Articles by Patrick Jaiah Kamara
Sierra Leone: Management Admits Choithram Was Established for the Poor and Needy'
Harish Agnani ,a representative from the Choithram Foundation, has admitted that Choithram Memorial Hospital was established to serve the poor and needy in Sierra Leone. Agnani provided a brief history of the hospital and noted that Choithram business started in Sierra Leone in 1944 by the late Thakurdas Choithram Pagarani.
West Africa: VP Urges ECOWAS Bank to Invest in Infrastructure
While delivering a speech to mark the official opening of the 17th session of the Board of Governors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) yesterday at the Raddison Blu Mammy Yoko Hotel in Freetown, Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh called on the bank for a 'shared infrastructure' within the ECOWAS bloc. "Whilst working at the UN, I have on several occasions called on the EBID and the UN to move to a level of what I called share infrastructure.
West Africa: J.J Saffa is the New Board Chair of ECOWAS Bank
Members of the ECOWAS bloc last night unanimously appointed Sierra Leone's Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu Saffa, as the Board Chairman of the bank for the period of one year. ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) started operations in 2004 as the leading regional investment and development financial institution in West Africa and an effective instrument for poverty reduction, wealth creation and job promotion for the well-being of the people in the region.
Sierra Leone: World Blood Donor Day -
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara One of the female donating blood on Friday At the commemoration of this year's World Blood Donor Day (WBDD), 14 June, Head of Blood Transmission Services, Professor Sahr Moses Gevao has stated that the country's blood bank is below the required percentage.
Sierra Leone: UN Country Rep Urges Dialogue Amid Political Tension
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara UN Resident Coordinator, Sunil Saigal wants sustainable peace in the country. The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone has called on political stakeholders to engage in 'meaningful dialogue' with the view to reducing the tension and 'maintain the focus on addressing the important development needs of the country and its people'.
Sierra Leone: Police Arrest 18 Armed Robbers Targeting Catholic Nuns
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara Eighteen suspects that have been allegedly attacking Catholic Nuns residing in various parts of the country have been arrested and brought to Freetown. The Deputy Inspector General of Police, F.U.K Daboh told newsmen at an emergency presser at the Police Headquarters on George Street that they were worried over the recent attack perpetrated against the Catholic Sisters across the country.
Sierra Leone: Tonko Limba By-Election Marred By Malpractice
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara Kambia — The erstwhile Chief of Staff, Office of the President, State House, Dr. Richard Konteh had raised serious concern over the just concluded re-run by-election in Tonko Limba Chiefdom, Constituency 058, Ward 196, which he alleged was marred by series of malpractices, especially the one he witnessed at Mile 14 polling station 002.
Sierra Leone: State of Emergency - Main Opposition Leader Urges Bio to 'Discountenance' Certificate of Approval
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara In the wake of the controversial approval of a State of Public Emergency on rape and sexual violence, the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) leader in Parliament, Hon.
Sierra Leone: Aftermath of Malen Killing - Rights Groups Exonerate Hon. Sama, Others
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara A report published by eight Human Rights Groups on the incident that took place in Sahn Malen chiefdom, Pujehun district in which two people were reportedly killed and many injured has exonerated Hon. Shiaka Sama, an independent Member of Parliament and other members of Malen Affected Land Owners and Land Users Association" (MALOA), who were arrested and detained.
Sierra Leone: At Court Martial, Army Technician Exposes Discrepancies in JPGF Ammunition Returns
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara Captain Crispin K. Dumbuya, the Ammunition Technical Officer attached to the Supply Service Squadron (SSS) at the Joint Logistic Unit, Murray Town, has told the Court Martial that there were discrepancies in the ammunition returns of the Joint Presidential Guard Force (JFPG) of erstwhile President Koroma.
Sierra Leone: JPGF Commander Tells Court Martial 'We Haven't 14.5mm Cartridges At Our Holding'
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara And Ibrahim k. Turay The current Commander of Joint Presidential Guard Force (JPGF), Lieutenant Colonel Moriba Mohamed Kposowa, has told Judge Advocate and Court Martial Board Members that they didn't have 14.5mm rounds at the JPGF ammunition holding centre.
Sierra Leone: Police Investigate Sam Sumana's State Security Personnel
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara Deputy Head of Operations at the Operational Support Division (OSD) of the Sierra Leone Police, Superintendent John N. Senesie, has disclosed that while three of the state security personnel deployed to the erstwhile sacked Vice President, Alhaji Samuel Sam Sumana, were under custody helping the police with investigations, the remaining two were currently at large.
Africa: First Lady Launches '50 Million African Women Speak' Project
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara The First Lady of Sierra Leone, Fatima Bio, has yesterday officially launched the "5o Million African Women Speak Platform" project at the Bintumani International Hotel in Freetown. The project worth $13.2 million is an initiative of the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS), the East African and Southern Africa Common Market (COMESA), and the Eastern African Community (EAC).
Sierra Leone: At Court Martial - Witness Explains How 8 Bags of Anti-Aircraft Rounds Were Discovered
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara And Ibrahim Turay The first prosecution witness in the ongoing court martial trial of three military personnel, Sheku Swaray, has narrated in the court as to how some eight bags of anti-aircraft rounds were discovered in a cesspit at a compound closed to the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station in Freetown.
Sierra Leone: Bar Association in Disarray Over Commissions of Inquiry
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara The seeming division within the Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA) yesterday came to light as members disagreed on a thorny constitutional issue regarding the upcoming Commissions of Inquiry.
Sierra Leone: Police Ban Street Carnival Ahead of Festive Season
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara The Sierra Leone Police have among a host of other security measures banned street carnivals during this festive season. Head of Police Media, Superintendent Brima Kamara said while reading a press statement signed by Inspector General of Police Dr. Richard Moigbeh that the ban on several public activities during the festive season was to guarantee the peace, public safety and security. "All street carnivals are banned.
Sierra Leone: Mo Ibrahim Foundation - Sierra Leone Ranked 26 Out of 54 in Overall Governance
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraSierra Leone scored 50.9 in overall governance, ranked 26 out of 54 countries in Africa, the Mo Ibrahim foundation says. According to a new report launched yesterday by the foundation, Sierra Leone scored 85.8 on national security in the 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), the highest among the categories measured by the foundation, while it scored very low in infrastructure, 24.
Sierra Leone: Hajj Gate Trial - Key Prosecution Witness Reportedly On the Run
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe Hajj gate trial involving a former Vice President and five top ex-government officials could be faced with setback after a key prosecution witnesses reportedly fled the jurisdiction. On 20th October, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) prosecutor Calvin Mantesebo had pleaded for a week-long adjournment to summon one of his key witnesses.
Sierra Leone: Rights Groups Demand Reinstatement of Suspended Mile 91 Luc
By Patrick Jaiah Kamara L-R: Morlai Conteh and Thomas Moore Conteh A Consortium for Good Governance, Human Rights and Democracy has called on the leadership of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) to reinstate with immediate effect the suspended Local Unit Commander of Mile 91 Police Station, Superintendent Alimamy Sesay. Supt. Sesay was suspended following an outburst on radio after the alleged shooting and killing of one Abdul Kombay Kamara by armed police men in Massengbeh.
Sierra Leone: Ministers Join Cleaning Exercise At Mountain Rural District
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe Ministers of Water Resources, and Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs Saturday, 4th August, joined hundreds of youth in the national cleaning exercise in the mountain rural communities. Dr. Jonathan Tengbe and Madam Baindu Dassama respectively are residents of Tree-Planting community in ward 395, constituency 112. The first stop of the ministers was Tree-Planting communities, where they spoke to dozens of youth that were out and about cleaning the community.
Sierra Leone: FAO Emphasises Importance of Forest
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations has emphasised the importance of forest in its State of the World's Forests (SOFO 2018) report. The report released on Friday 6 July analyses the role forests and trees - and the people who use and manage them - can play in helping countries achieve their objectives and bring about a brighter future.
Sierra Leone: Amnesty Report - SLP UN Peacekeeping Role Should Be Suspended
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraAmnesty International has recommended in a report published yesterday that the recruitment of Operational Support Division (OSD) of the Sierra Leone Police into United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world be suspended.
Sierra Leone: Govt in Debt Crisis External U.S.$2 Billion, Domestic Le4.9 Trillion
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraPresident Bio... tasked to fix the economic mess created by the past regime Ernest Bai Koroma... to give account of stewardship over ten years The newly elected President of Sierra Leone, Brigadier (Rtd.) Julius Maada Bio, last Friday (13th April) called on the International Monitory Fund (IMF) Chief Brain Aitken and team to help rejuvenate the country's economy as his new government has inherited huge external and domestic debts.
Sierra Leone: As NEC Suffers Additional U.S.$2 Million Expenditure for Runoff Deferral
analysis By Patrick Jaiah Kamara... APC Ibrahim Sorie Koroma to pay Lawyer representing the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Drucil Taylor, yesterday told a panel of three Supreme Court judges that his client incurred additional two million dollars after the High Court slammed an injunction, restraining NEC to conduct the runoff election on the stipulated date.
Sierra Leone: NEC's Supreme Court Case Adjourned Till After Run-Off
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe Supreme Court in Sierra Leone has adjourned until April 5 to continue hearing a case brought before it by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) for judicial review of a raft of orders that had been granted by the High Court, presided by Justice Abdul Rahaman Mansaray.
Sierra Leone: High Court Slams 'Interim Injunction' On Presidential Run-Off
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe High Court in Sierra Leone, presided over by Judge Abdul Rahaman Mansaray, has slammed an interim injunction on the presidential runoff slated for this Tuesday, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive matter today.
Sierra Leone: SLPP, APC, C4C And ADP Have 'Issues' With March 7 Elections
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraPresidential candidates of major political parties that contested the just concluded March 7 presidential election have highlighted several issues pertaining to the conduct of the poll. Over three million people registered to vote but only a little over two and half million people turned out to pick a new president among sixteen presidential aspirants, with President Ernest Bai Koroma set to leave office after completing two consecutive terms.
Sierra Leone: New Bank Notes to Carry Late President Kabba's & Prisident Koroma's Portrait
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraGovernor of Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) has disclosed that President Ernest Bai Koroma's portrait would be used on the new Le10,000 note while the Le5,000 note would carry that of the late former President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
Sierra Leone: As He Completes Nominationdr. Samura Kamara Denies Ownership of British Passport
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraPresidential candidate of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) has denied ownership of a British passport that is making the rounds on social media, stating that it was a political 'gimmick' aimed at distracting his attention. Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara was speaking to pressmen just after he went through the nomination process with his running mate Chernor Ramadan Maju Bah at NEC headquarters on Tower Hill in Freetown. "I have never owned a British passport.
Sierra Leone: 16 Political Parties to Battle for State House On March 7
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe National Electoral Commission (NEC) last Friday completed nomination of aspirants for the March 7 elections. No fewer than sixteen presidential candidates have secured provisional certificates to go head-to-head, out of seventeen registered political parties; the People's Democratic Party (PDP) didn't go through the presidential nomination as a result of leadership struggle within the party.
Sierra Leone: PPRC Issues 48 Hours Ultimatum to Musa Tarawally
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) has issued a stern warning to new political parties that have not conformed to the provisions of the Act that created the commission.
Sierra Leone: As Kamarainba Claims Government Operatives Set His Office Afireminister Charges Claims Are 'Frivolous'
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraDeputy Minister of Information and Communications, Cornelius Deveaux, has described as frivolous and lack any iota of truth, claims made by Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray that the inferno which gutted his office on Tuesday morning was 'politically motivated' and masterminded by the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) government.
Sierra Leone: U.S.$13 Million World Bank Emergency Support to Flood & Mudslide Victims
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe World Bank Group Country manager, Parminder Brar has yesterday told a presser that the Bank has provided 13 million United States dollar as part of its immediate response to the flood and mudslide disaster that killed hundreds of people in Freetown and left thousands homeless. The World Bank chief was addressing newsmen yesterday at the head office on Howe Street about the financial response from the Bank.
Sierra Leone: Ahead of Kenema Delegates Conferenceslpp Keeps Mute About Number of Registered Flagbearer Aspirants
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe National Executive of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has been mute and refused to make public, the exact number of flagbearer aspirants that have registered to contest in the Kenema delegates conference slated for September 15, 16 and 17, 2017.
Sierra Leone: Seven Police Recruits Jailed for Exam Malpractice
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraSeven recruits of the Sierra Leone Police force were yesterday remanded in prisons after they pleaded guilty to the offence of exams malpractice. The accused were applicants of the SLP, who took the exams at the Ahymadiyya Muslim Secondary School in the east of Freetown.
Sierra Leone: 'I Have No Doubt in the Voter Registration Process'
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraLeader, Chairman and standard bearer of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP) has stated that his party was not bordered about sending party agents to observe the ongoing voter registration exercise, because they have total trust in the process.
Sierra Leone: Tengbeh Town Murder
By Patrick Jaiah KamaraThe hearing of late Patrick Bangura, who was found dead in a local pit toilet at Tengbeh town, west of Freetown, has kicked off in the High Court before Justice John Bosco Alieu. Earlier, State Prosecutor, lawyer Joan Mayota Sandeke Bull Ms, told the court and the twelve-man jury that she would prosecute her case on circumstantial evidence instead of direct evidence. She told the court that she has added witnesses to the indictment.
Sierra Leone: Kabasa Lodge Demolition Leaves Over 1000 Homeless
Police officers have demolished over 50 structures around the vicinity of Kabasa Lodge, west of Freetown, leaving approximately 1000 people homeless. Residents say armed police officers stormed the community last Friday, apparently with a court order to evict residents at 51 Kabasa Lodge, and that they were not given time to remove their properties.
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