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Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister David Moinina Sengeh has announced that the Tripartite committee has identified 86 issues and agreed on 169 recommendations.
As the Chief Negotiator for the Agreement for National Unity, he joined APC Leader Dr. Samura Kamara on June 18, 2024, in an expanded Tripartite Committee meeting to review the progress, just one day before the initial six-month mandate expired.
The Tripartite Committee was established following Sierra Leone’s disputed 2023 elections to review election results, certification processes, observer reports, and the Public Elections Act of 2022. This committee emerged from a communiqué signed between the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and the main opposition, All People’s Congress (APC), in October last year, facilitated by mediation from the international community, including the Commonwealth, African Union, and ECOWAS. The U.S. government contributed $1.5 million to support the committee’s operations.
Despite these efforts, there has been growing public and journalistic concern over the committee’s lack of communication and transparency. No media representatives have been present during its deliberations. The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) was initially expected to be part of the committee, but the opposition APC objected, and the ruling SLPP supported their exclusion. This has led to a scarcity of real-time updates on the committee’s activities, fostering public suspicion and a perception of secrecy.
In a related development, the APC announced on June 18, 2024, its decision to resume participation in the Tripartite Committee despite ongoing challenges and allegations of non-cooperation from the SLPP government and the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL).
1.5 million. Can they release expenditures to show how the money was spent? I am sure a lot of that went into someone’s pocket
The income and expenditure should also vividly come out with the recommendation
What is the way forward on the issues that have been reviewed. Tell us the outcome of the tripartite
I hope this issue is firmly resolved by respecting the majority voices and will of the people of Sierra Leone. Any thing short of that is tantamount injustice, that would be unacceptable.
SLPP blantant disregard for the constitution and rule of law is disrespectful and criminal in the highest order. The people deserves better
It’s unjust to say SLPP is not cooperating with others ,how can you inject what was not agreed upon to be call upon in the ongoing traparttie ? Apc is requesting for something they know will never be avialable and it was not part of what they are working on !!!
When majority of Sierra Leoneans in the villages an other extremely far communities are suffering from hunger and starvation, a small group of people are pocketing the sum of $ 1.5 million dollars. May God help Sierra Leone.
Hmmm speechless, APC battery is very low.. us. By Holland destiny killer.. Stop destroying the people
Frankly speaking all the politician na this we Country are not good for themselves and the country, (especially S.L.P.P)
I think they went to kill ous softly in this country o Allaah sorry for ous especially we the innocent one them