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By Bampia James Bundu

Executive Secretary at the National Commission for Persons with Disability, Janet Robinson, has said that most of the issues discussed in the Disability Act are not practically incorporated.

While addressing the challenges of the Commission, at an ENCISS-organised forum in Freetown, Robinson said that persons with disability were still deprived of facilities due them.

By Crispina Cummings

The information committee in parliament, chaired by Binneh Bangura, MP, has summoned the government-owned telecommunications company, SIERRATEL, to familiarize themselves with the House.

Chairman of Sierratel, Tom Obaleh Roberts, and the deputy managing director, Edward Sesay, say they are ready to provide the country with easy internet access.

By Crispina Cummings

Parliament has approved Alhaji Wuroh Jalloh as the executive director of the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration, Solomon Kargbo as the new petroleum director and Isatu Kamara as the deputy commissioner of the National Commission for Social Action (NACSA).

MPs described Solomon Kargbo as “a hardworking young man” and vouched for his ability, experience and expertise to deliver.

Roland Foday Kargbo, MP, said he believed that the fuel crisis in the country would be minimised.

Francis Munu, Police boss

Deputy head of discipline at the Complaint Discipline and Internal Investigations Department, CDIID of the Sierra Leone police has told Politico that all officers who commit criminal offences are disciplined, dismissed and charged to court.