SLAJ Urges Government To Speedily Implement Recommendations of the Investigations Committee on Assault of Two Female Sports Journalists
23 October, 2019 PRESS RELEASE The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), and its constituent bodies (SWASAL, WIMSAL and SLRU) has formally received from its representatives the final report of the Investigations Committee that was established by the Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Information and Communications to look into allegations levied against security personnel of the Joint Presidential Guard Force during the Sierra Leone-Liberia football encounter on Sunday, 8th September, 2019 at the National Stadium in Freetown. Our representatives reported that the Committee carried out its investigations without interference or intimidation from any quarter and that the proceedings were fair and transparent. SLAJ and its constituent bodies represented in the Investigations Committee therefore call on the Government of Sierra Leone to speedily implement the recommendations in the report. “The recommendations, in my opinion, are generally fair enough to...