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NASSIT lawyer Farakhan Sesay on Saturday 22nd October applied for bench warrant to arrest the proprietor of Equality Now Newspaper Amara Eric Keifala for not coming to Court.
In That light Magistrate Isata Sellu Tucker ordered the arrest of the Proprietor of Equality Now Newspaper, Amara Eric Keifala who is the 2nd defendant for failing to appear in Court.
Both defendants Equality Now Newspaper and Amara Eric Keifala are charged on a count of failing to pay social security contributions contrary to Section 32 (1) (C) of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust Act No. 5 of 2001.
According to the charge sheet, Equally Now Newspaper and Amara Eric Keifala being an Establishment and Employer respectively under the National Social Security and Insurance Trust Act No. 5 of 2001, on diverse dates between March 2021, to April 2022, at No. 19 Percival Street, Freetown, did fail to pay Social Security Contributions in the sum of seven million and one thousand, one hundred and fifty two Leones, twenty two cents, for it workers to the Trust within the required period.
Matter adjourned to the 29th October 2022.
