This week the on-going illegal housing and disputable land owenrship problems in Sierra Leone took a fatal twist when one of the officials sent to demolish illegal structures was murdered. We've been following this in the forum since March when some structures where demolished in Wellington, Calaba Town. Last week The Minister said Freetown is the worst in terms of lawlessness according to the article by AllAfrica. Unfortunately, this demolishing exercise has now seen the death of an official. Even though this is trully bad, there have been other incidents where people have been beaten senseless when the tried to approach illegal settlers on land. We hope the govt investigation will be swift and those who are responsible be brought to justice, as this is an issue which if not tackled now will have implications for attracting investors to Sierra Leone too...not to mention the negative press should anything like this happen again.
An interview with the Minister.
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