New Members of Parliament in Sierra Leone on Wednesday were engaged in a brawl after some of them were asked to vacate the chamber.
The MPs from the All People’s Congress (APC) had an injunction issued against them and were ordered to leave the legislature before the swearing in of new MPs.
The brawl disrupted the proceedings in Sierra Leone’s parliament and the police had to be called in to restore order.
The swearing in of the new MPs later took place in a parliament dominated by lawmakers from the APC which lost the presidency to Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s Party.
Sierra Leone’s new president, Julius Maada Bio this month held a meeting with the defeated presidential candidate in last month’s run-off election, Samura Kamara.
Both leaders held talks towards ensuring peaceful transition and formation of new government after a closely contested poll.
Samura Kamara told reporters after the meeting that he congratulated the new leader and would now support the new administration.
The new president who is a former military leader was sworn in as new president this month. The former President Ernest Bai Koroma stepped down after his maximum two terms in office.
Sierra Leone witnessed a brutal, diamond-fuelled civil war in the 1990s and the new president faces a huge task of trying to fix the West African country’s economy, still recovering from the war and recent Ebola epidemic.
Source: Africafeeds.com
