He called on all members of the RUF to embrace the peace process and warned that any cadres or civilians living in the territory who exhibited misconduct before the pecekeepers would be severely dealt with. The project will contribute to the rebuilding of the judicial system of Sierra Leone. The construction work will be undertaken by ex-combatants as a way of reintegrating former soldiers into the civil society. The funds have been provided by the Government of Japan. In a country that has been in turmoil for so long, it is very important to bring back a sense of trust in the legal institutions.
People have to develop trust in the legal foundations of the nation.
This is a fundamental basis for building a better society. He said that RUF detainees usually wrote letters to their relatives but that they were strictly censored by Prison authority after which they were handed over to ICRC for delivery and vice versa. One such letters sparked off the incident in the Prisons yard last Wednesday when it was discovered on one of the detainees when the police went to execute an unannounced search of their cells. The detainee refused to hand over the letter and instead chew it. Eight people lost their lives at sea last Wednesday night when the canoe, 'Bombali Star,' in which they were travelling in from Shenge to Freetown capsized.