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Reprisals for making peace with President Koroma ? SLPP Government withdraws Sam Sumana’s security

January 10, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Government stunned the nation yesterday by withdrawing state security assigned to former Vice=President, Alhaji Sam Sumana. This action by the government has provoked an intense backlash from Sierra Leoneans in […]

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Police raid Sam Sumana’s residence again and whisk off three of his personal guards

January 9, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Fayia Amara Fayia I can confirm that indeed OSD Police officers loaded in two open Land Rovers launched a second raid on the residence of former Vice President Sam […]

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BREAKING NEWS!!! Police storm Sam Sumana’s residence to disarm his security

January 8, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BREAKING NEWS!!! Police, claiming to be acting  with orders from above,  just stormed the Freetown compound of former Vice President and leader of the Coalition for Change (C4C) Party Alhaji […]

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Former President still led APC Executive to march to the CID

January 8, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Breaking news Alert Despite all efforts by the Sierra Leone Criminal Investigation Department and the nine months old Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) Maada Bio government  from stopping the former president of Sierra […]

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Police remove Ernest Koroma from list of APC executives asked to report to CID

January 7, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Inspector General of Police, Richard Moigbeh has retracted the Police invitation to the All Peoples Congress Executive to report at the CID. Police sources says the IGP has informed the […]

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Sierra Leone Police arrest APC supporters in Kenema

January 7, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Breaking News* Sierra Leone Police in Kenema District have just arrested APC Party Supporters in Kenema Look at the photos below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Sierra Leone Police deny : No order to shoot demonstrators on sight

January 7, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Claudius Beckley The Head of Media at the Sierra Leone Police, Supretendent Brima Kamara ,  has denied troubling rumours circulating in the city and social media that the Inspector […]

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Drama in Sierra Leone, as Sierra Leone Bar Association challenges Maada Bio’s commission of inquiry in court

January 7, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 

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Government troops storm and seal off the opposition party headquarters

January 7, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By COCORIOKO REPORTERS It seems there is no end to the multitudinous political drama being churned in Sierra Leone by the President Bio Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) […]

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CID Invites Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma & APC Executive*

January 7, 2019 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Freetown: 7/1/2019 CID Invites Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma & APC Executive* Sierra Leone’s Criminal Investigation Department has invited the country”s former President, Ernest Bai Koroma, and his opposition All People’s […]

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