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The Tripartite Steering Committee held a strategic meeting with a five-member delegation from ECOWAS on Thursday at the Secretariat’s office in Freetown.
The engagement served as a follow-up on the implementation of the Unity Agreement, with particular emphasis on Resolution 3, which focuses on the establishment of a Cross-Party Committee on Electoral Systems and Management Bodies Review.
The meeting represented a crucial step for the ECOWAS delegation in assessing the commitment of all parties to the recommendations contained in the Tripartite Report. Experts have emphasised that this process is vital for the reformation of Sierra Leone’s electoral system, which faced significant scrutiny following the 2023 General Elections.
During the session, the Committee’s Coordinator, Ngolo Katta, reaffirmed the government’s dedication to fully implementing the recommendations of the Tripartite process. He cited concrete actions already taken, including the release of political detainees and the payment of salaries to All People’s Congress (APC) parliamentarians and councillors who had boycotted legislative sittings in protest of the 2023 presidential election results.
In addition, the ECOWAS team presented the Community Strategic Framework (CSF) a five-year development plan aligned with ECOWAS Vision 2050, designed to address the region’s political, socio-economic, and security challenges.
The Tripartite Committee was formed as part of the 2023 post-election peace and national unity framework to foster dialogue, rebuild trust among political stakeholders, and reform Sierra Leone’s electoral and governance systems to ensure credible, transparent, and inclusive future elections.
This comes after the main opposition party disagreed with the 2023 presidential results, calling on the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) to publish the full results. The party’s stance was also hinged on the elections report by development partners, including the EU, which cited “statistical inconsistencies”.
