The Legal Aid Board has held a Public Education meeting at the Dr S.M. Broderick Municipal School, constituency 109, with an audience comprising the Brookfields, Dwarzark, Sumaila Town, Congo Market, and New England communities and their environs.
The Legal Aid Board has held a Public Education meeting at the Dr S.M. Broderick Municipal School, constituency 109, with an audience comprising the Brookfields, Dwarzark, Sumaila Town, Congo Market, and New England communities and their environs. The meeting saw hundreds people learning more about the legal aid in Sierra Leone and the expression of their joy for the scheme. It was a woman dominated affair. These women who are mainly the true bread winners in their homes, are usually the burden bearers when matters come to the worse. Some of them have been through the legal system before with head ache at the police station, heart ache in the courts, and a chest pain at the brink of their resistance when they or their relatives are put on remand. These women in all shapes and forms, expressed their frustrations at the legal system. Ya Alimamy Salay Conteh did not waste time in pointing it out that women are the backbones of their communities and therefore must be given the much