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Mohamed Basiru Sanusi, a youth Ambassador and Media man who had announced his candidacy for the Mayoral office of the Freetown Municipality in January, has stepped down. He made the decision Public on Epic radio, when he was asked for an update on his bid. According to him, his announcement was an awareness campaign to inform young people that they are never too young to run for any political office besides the Presidency which has a set age requirement of forty years. He continued that young people should be excited to be politically active to influence change and new initiatives. He stated that young people who shy aware from politics should be embracing it. He furthered that his focus on his media empire would have been halted by media laws in Sierra Leone (one of which is the IMC code which prohibits media politicians from becoming owners of main stream media entities) if he had indeed meant to fully carry out his political ambitions at this time.

Kadiatu Koroma, mother of seventeen month old Hannah Kanu, has received seventeen million old Leones from the Sierra Leone police as compensation for the death of her child whilst in police custody, in December, 2021. Kadiatu Koroma had been arrested on allegations of theft in Makeni but due to the age of her child, had declined to be separated with her child and had then been placed into a cell along with her child, at the Panlap Police station. The item she had allegedly stole was a handbag containing items worth seven hundred and fifty thousand Leones. During the evening hours, the child who had been mildly sick got worse and though the mother had tried to plead with the police to assist her with her child, they had interpreted her cries as a way to be let out. By 9pm that night, the child had died. The incident investigated by MENA police had determined that the police officers on duty had only been guilty of negligence and not murder. The cause of death has also been reported to be malnutrition