Landowners protest over delayed report in southern Sierra Leone
Executive members of an organisation representing landowners engaged in a long drawn out dispute with Socfin Agriculture Company in Malen Chiefdom in the Pujehun district have appealed to President Julius Maada to intervene so as to realise “a win-win outcome”.
In a letter addressed to President Bio that was on social media, members of Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) expressed concern over delay in the releasing of a report by a Technical Team that investigated the problems between the two parties. They recalled the engagements they had with Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh in November 2018 when he was reportedly sent by President Bio to mediate between the two groups. The landowners said the Vice President endorsed the setting up of a Technical Team that was to investigate the land conflict.