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INTRODUCTION Bail is defined as the temporary or conditional release of a suspect under police custody or an accused person about to go through a trial on the condition that he will appear in the police station or the court as and when required; consequent upon the furnishing of a bail bond provided by him or a surety. Regulation 1, which is the interpretation section of the Bail Regulations Constitutional Instrument 2017, of Sierra Leone defined bail as: ‘’an agreement between a defendant, his surety, and the Court or a defendant and the Court, that the defendant will attend Court as and when required and if he fails to attend Court, in addition to the Court issuing a bench warrant, a sum of money deposited into the Court or property put up as security shall be forfeited to the Court’’ The primary purpose a bail stands to serve is to guarantee that the suspect or the accused appears on a later date to face justice and also serves to ensure temporary liberty to the suspect or accused w...

                                                          By: Boizee Bai Kalokoh Imagine yourself coming from a country that is ranked the poorest in the world, a country that is ranked below all human development and social indices. A country whose people exist and thrive under the most difficult platform. (You would want to call that RESILIENCE). I would rather say these are people who are high-spirited and filled with the sap of life. Imagine living in a country that has almost all the world’s natural resources and its  people still go to bed hungry, this has accelerated many people’s journey to the grave. Imagine living in a country whose healthcare system is as broken as an overused rickety locomotive. Hospitals aren’t furnished with the latest contraptions for diagnostic procedures, no proper hygienic and janitorial services, the pre...