{"id":43344,"date":"2012-06-26T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=43344"},"modified":"2012-06-26T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T06:00:36","slug":"six-miners-remanded-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=43344","title":{"rendered":"Six miners remanded in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Six Miners including Amara Kallon, Mohamed Tholley, Ibrahim Conteh, Mustapha, Nayallay Alusine Kamara, and Hassan Kamara, have been arraigned before the\u00a0\u00a0presiding Magistrate His Lordship Mohamed Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens of the Magistrate&#8217;s court in Kenema for alleged illicit mining within the Gola Rain Forest which has been declared a National Park by the president, HE\u00a0Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">According to the particulars of the offence the six accused persons on Sunday 22rd January, 2012 at Gola Rain Forest Reserve in Normo Chiefdom Kenema District were found engaging in illicit mining of gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">According to the prosecuting witness Chael Dauda Moijue, he and other forest rangers were on routine patrol within the forest for any unlawful activity including farming, hunting, logging, mining and others in the forest apprehended the poachers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He went on to say that during their patrol they saw a group of people engaged in mining of gold in the reserved Gola National Park. The witness said of the group they saw; only six were arrested and are the accused standing trial. The six accused persons were all remanded in prison. The case was adjourned for further hearing and Sgt 4907 Charles M.B and ASP Sahr Didi Lahai of Kenema Police Station prosecuted the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In another development a motorbike rider Kemoh Fofanah of 108 Hangha Road, Kenema, has made his final appearance before presiding\u00a0 magistrate Mohamed Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens of\u00a0 Magistrate Court, Kenema, on three count charges, first count\u00a0 riding without due care and attention, count two riding without license and count three riding\u00a0 when not covered by third party insurance risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">According to the particulars of the crime the accused person on Monday 16<sup>th<\/sup> January, this year was arrested by Sgt 1600 Kargbo of Kenema Police Division along Hangha Road, Kenema, with\u00a0\u00a0 motorbike, Registration No.AG 234 and charged to court for riding motorbike with Guinean License and the other subsequent offences above. The accused pleaded not guilty but the court later found him guilty and was sentenced to nine (9) weeks imprisonment or alternate fine of Le 210,000 cash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Miners including Amara Kallon, Mohamed Tholley, Ibrahim Conteh, Mustapha, Nayallay Alusine Kamara, and Hassan Kamara, have been arraigned before the\u00a0\u00a0presiding Magistrate His Lordship Mohamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":12862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11448,1],"tags":[12546,3491],"class_list":["post-43344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-uncategorized","tag-gola-rain-forest","tag-illegal-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}