Peep Sierra Leone

At a well attended press conference at the Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA) Building, Wallace Johnson Street, on Tuesday, 26th January, the Managing Director of Standard Times newspaper, Mr. Philip Neville, did what could be described as a put-down of the Sierra Leone Brewery Company.

Armed with six bottles of Star Lager Beer and a bottle of Guinness Stout, Mr. Neville showed journalists the impurities that were embedded inside the tightly shut bottles.

One of them contained an unopened packet of condom, another some dirty looking plastic and the others sediments which looked like fungi.

This conference came as a result of denials made by Sierra Leone Brewery after reports in the Standard Times, that there products were contaminated.

"Instead of them withdrawing the products that are affected," Mr. Neville told his audience, referring to the management of SLBL, "they keep defending the indefensible". Since the publications started coming out in Standard Times, the Deputy Minister of Health had, on several occasions warned SLBL to put its house in order or face disciplinary action. But instead of the company doing that it keeps making threats to sue the Newspaper.