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President Koroma Launches Transparency Sierra Leone Website

Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:59 weyonepress

President Koroma Indicative of the APC government’s commitment to promote good governance through enhanced citizen participation in the affairs of the State, His Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma today at an epoch making ceremony held at State House launched the Transparency Sierra Leone portal, an initiative of the APC government which aims at redefining the way government communicates with the people and creates an online interface between government and the people.

“Today marks another opportunity to demonstrate to this great nation my administration’s commitment to transparency and open government,” President Koroma told a galaxy of eminent personalities including members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ministers of Government and other representatives as he officially launched the website.

Response to the letter from the Leader of United Kingdom and Ireland Branch of the SLPP to the British Foreign Secretary Published today at www.thenewpeople.com

Monday, 23 January 2012 13:53 Cornelius Deveaux

Monday January 23^rd 2012

Dear Foreign Secretary

RE: Political Violence In Sierra Leone

I find it extremely repulsive for a Sierra Leonean not resident in the country, who identifies himself as the Leader of the United Kingdom and Ireland Branch of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), to write a letter to The Honourable UK Foreign Secretary damning the government of President Koroma as perpetuators of violence and vaguely attempting to shadow the realities of the Fourah Bay violence by deliberately misleading The Honourable Foreign Secretary and all others copied about the health and wellbeing of Aziz Carew who is currently under investigation for a violent assault on Lansana Fadika who was brutally stabbed by the same Aziz Carew in an election violence orchestrated by the opposition SLPP.

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Following the death of former Councilor Abdul Salaam Ade Lewally of Ward 369 in Constituency 104 in Freetown, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) declared the seat vacant and slated Saturday 14^th January 2012 as the date for a by-election to replace the former Councilor.

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