By Zainab Joaque
Parliament delays Road Maintenance Fund budget
By Crispina Cummings
The appropriation sub-committee on finance on Friday ended their probe into the budget expenditure last year by ministries, departments and agencies. Approval for their 2013 budget will be debated next week.
However scrutiny of the expenditure by the Road Maintenance Fund of last year’s budget was suspended on the grounds that the vote comptroller and executive director Abdul Karim Kalokoh could not account for Le 5 billion.
MMCET lecturers join strike
Lecturers at the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCET) have joined their colleagues at Fourah Bay College and Njala University on an industrial strike action.
President of the Academic Staff Association of MMCET, Gibril Thullah told Politico that they agreed yesterday, Wednesday 13 March to commence their sit-down strike action because of “several grievances”.
