By Mohamed K. Turay
Sierra Leone’s 21 Correctional Service Centres are reportedly being faced with acute food shortages for the past three years because suppliers are said to have stopped supplying them due to the failure of the Bio-led administration to pay them for services rendered.
This was made known to the public last Friday at a press conference held at No.89 Fort Street, in Freetown, by the Consortium of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working on service delivery.
Journalists were also told that the Bio-led administration had repeatedly failed to honour payments to rice suppliers which had made them to cease supplies until the government either pay up or set out a payment plan that would be acceptable to them.
The Consortium of Civil Society Organisations described the food shortages in the 21 Correctional Centres as “violations of the fundamental human rights of the inmates”, and gave the Bio-led government a 14-day ultimatum failing of which they promised to trigger a nationwide protest.