The Daily IIJ

The main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party has damned the ministry of mines, mineral resources and political affairs as a “ready-made dumping ground” for State House appointees dismissed for fraud and/or misappropriation of public and donor funds.

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Transition, Général Sékouba, nomination des cadres

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By Jahangir Alam Akash, Bangladesh is a country where there is no right to life. Rather, exercising the death penalty and extra judicial killings violates the right, which is common practice. Every year many peoples are handed the death penalty and many more die due to extra judicial killings. There are no statistics on the number of people killed since Bangladesh attained independence.

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President John Evans Atta Mills yesterday admitted in parliament that he had disappointed Ghanaians for failing to deliver on his promise made last year in his State of the Nation address, to establish a ‘Members of Parliament Constituency Fund’ to foster development projects at the constituency level, aside that of the District Assemblies Common Fund.

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 There have been growing concerns among the rank and file of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) that party chairman, John Oponjo Benjamin and other top ranking officials are hell-bent on manipulating the party’s constitution to suit their political ambitions.

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Chairman of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) says he is waiting for the appropriate time to respond to president Ernest Bai Koroma’s swipe on him and his party.John Oponjo Benjamin aka JOB told Concord Times:

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The recent visit of President Koroma to Kailahun district has left more confusion and animosity against the APC. It was a big shock that President Koroma took his Limba cultural mask devil or Matorma to Kailahun when it was expected that the President was visiting his own people never mind the district is predominantly a [...]

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By Jahangir Alam Akash, Just now Indigenous-Tribal communities have been cleaning by the government and Bangalee people who were taken shelter in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). It was totally illegal. The local people think that, only for that the present problem has arisen. Most important Land Commission for CHT hasn’t functioned yet. Though, it was put inside of the peace treaty. And it is a very burning and demanding issue from the Indigenous people of CHT. Hundreds houses including Buddhist temple and church were burnt. Bangalee settler and army men together attacked on Indigenous people. At a stage the Indigenous people were starting fought with them.

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The power of RAB is stronger than government. Is it true for Bangladesh? Or is RAB a ‘God’ in Bangladesh? Or the government himself wants to continue extra judicial killings? Many questions are rounding in our minds. Because, High Court orders, national and international voice against extra judicial killings, Constitution, Universal Declaration of Human Rights nowhere allowed killings and torturing. Even torturing is prohibited of the religion. In spite of they are doing this inhuman work continuously.

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Militancy is still very active in Bangladesh. Former BNP-Jammat government was patronized to militant organizations for their own purpose. Now the militants are grown up whole over the country. Yet, we didn’t seen that the Godfathers and the petronizers of militant gotten punishment. I want to show to the readers by a video documentary what happened in the name of Islam in Bangladesh. What are having inside of that documentary now I want to take you there?

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