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Press Release 13 May 2020 ******************************** We have received very worrying reports about the arbitrary arrest and detention by the Sierra Leone Police of a prominent child rights activist Ambassador Hussain Muckson Sesay, a current student of FBC and former Secretary-General of the Children’s Forum Network (CFN) - a child led organisation.  The report is that Muckson was arrested and detained on the 3rd May 2020 because he allegedly shared a message with a picture on social media, taken during police investigation of an unrelated case at the CID. According to his lawyer Mr Melron Nicol-Wilson, Muckson has vehemently denied the allegation. The presumption of innocence is the legal principle that Muckson is considered innocent until proven guilty by a competent court of law.  The Sierra Leone Police have not provided any credible information for Muckson’s arrest and  detention to his family, friends or the general public. We note that Muckson has been held in very difficu...

https://arwilsonsentertainment.blogspot.com/2020/05/117-hot-line-accused-of-neglecting.html👇🏽 After 11 hours of persistent calls to the 117 call center, citizens reports made at Rogbaneh Police Station in Makeni, follow ups made to district stakeholders and Journalists, this medium can reliably confirm that the corps of the female who collapsed yesterday along the Rogbalene market road has been picked up by medics at around 9pm (12/05/2020). Stay connected to Northern Times as we continue to dig deeper into the acquisitions and will bring you the lastest development on this story subsequently. ©: AR-Wilson✍️ 👉🏾 Northern Times Newspaper🙌🏽

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson- (AR-WILSON)✍️ Residents of Market Road around Rogbalene police station in Makeni have accused the 117 hot line of neglecting their calls. A neighbor of a said family who's girl child passed away this morning has disclosed to Northern Times that all efforts from the girl's parents and neighbors to the 117 call center for respond to the sudden death have proved futile. In a distressed call a caller from the area said: "Hello I'm calling to kindly inform your medium that for over 10hours now,  117 call center have failed to respond to our calls after we have informed them about a sudden death that happened in our area several hours ago but since this morning we have not heard nor have we seen them even after we have made repeated calls made to them. "Sir this neglect has really left us worried and it has also mounted fear amongst us here in this Covid19 era as we continue to obey health warnings not to bury the dead at this moment without dr...

In the context of discipline, it is not only about moral etiquette but it is also about quality, the packaging, rebranding, posture and the looks, said Executive Director of Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) Marcella Samba Sesay. She said: “When we talk about media discipline, I think this is what it entails and so it is not only about mediating conflict but also about ensuring that the media present itself as a force to reckon with.” Marcella was speaking as the Vice Chairperson of the newly constituted SLAJ Disciplinary Committee during a complaint hearing and meeting with Regional Executives of the Association and representatives of national media groups at the SLAJ Headquarters in Freetown on 1st May, 2020. The meeting was organised by the Media Reform Coordinating Group (MRCG) with funding from NED. The CGG head reminded journalists about the change in dynamics in the media landscape and the need to understand that it is only important that within this change context, they are ab...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️ The situation is critically difficult and the best Intentions of government to lower the price of fuel per pump price are undermined and supplanted. The rumours are encouraging, sweet and rice that the government Intends lowering the pump price of petroleum products from 7000.000 to 4000.00 per litre. Apparently, this has triggered the nefarious act of hoarding the fuel. Yesterday, only Total on St. Francis Secondary School road was opened to the public but the long queue and aggressive stampede made it practically impossible to secure fuel. Today, only Malado Filling Station is opened up to this late morning hours. As I write, a litre goes for 25,000.000 through the Jebu system, a black market trade largely engineered by fuel dealers in the municipality. The suspicion is fuel is pumped into Jerry cans at night to be sold as Jebu day and night times. This is done with reckless impunity and in the glare of the public.  What is happening? Who should take ...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️ The Coronavirus pandemic has posed a deadly challenge in our time. Current happenings across the country have placed us at the crossroads and tested our resilience, maturity to embrace the moment of truth, spirit of sacrifice and self denial for the public and Common good. The Ebola outbreak and ravaging consequences were to be lessons enough to embolden and strengthen us to confront and contain the sister Coronavirus but emerging trends have neatly overthrown these opportunities. The Coronavirus like Ebola stay clear of a scientific cure. What is available is an attitudinal frame of mind that will enhance behavioural patterns that will provide a succour.  The Coronavirus is deadly but requires cost effective sequence of compliant patterns to reverse the deadly trend.  All prescribed IPC measures and related precautionary measures are doable and cost effective. All that it takes is a deciplined character.  Handwashing and social distancing can be practi...

How A Former Colonial Power And Its Ex-Colony Are Faring In COVID-19 Fight By Sheka Tarawalie - (Shekito)✍️ 59 years ago, a sprightly 35-year-old Queen Elizabeth II took the long sea-journey on the Royal yacht Britannia to give her blessings to Sierra Leone’s Independence from Britain. Amid pomp and pageantry, and accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, Her Majesty gave a message of hope to the then-blossoming former ‘Athens of West Africa’. Last week, the occasion could not be celebrated. It was calibrated. COVID-19 had taken over: confirmed cases were rising and President Julius Maada Bio himself had to deliver the Independence Day message in quarantine. By the end of the week, a mishandling or manhandling of a corona-related incidence at the maximum Pademba Road prisons (where an inmate had tested positive and the authorities were vacillating on what to do with the rest of the inmates) left more people dead from gunshot wounds than from COVID-19 itself.  The situation has now become s...