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Kelfala Marah, a representative of the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) in the Electoral Reform Committee has highlighted the ongoing challenges in the implementation of Resolution 4, despite acknowledging initial progress in the overall agreement.
Marah made this disclosure in a press briefing held on Wednesday, 24th January 2024, at the residence of the United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone and present was the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield..
Marah emphasized that significant obstacles persist, particularly under Resolution 4 which he said addresses critical issues such as the release of arrested and detained individuals, discontinuation of politically motivated cases, support for the resettlement of internally and externally displaced persons, and the payment of backlog emoluments to elected officials.
Marah noted that, although progress has been made, the establishment of the Committee of Moral Guarantors is yet to be realized. However, he assured the audience that engagement with the international community and partners has been effective.
He went further and shed light on the controversial aftermath of the June 24, 2023, multi-tier elections, marked by a standoff between the APC and the Sierra Leone Government. Issues included a lack of transparency in the tallying process and the Electoral Commission’s refusal to publish results, preventing independent verification. Due to these concerns, Marah explained that the APC chose not to participate in governance until its demands on result publication were met. With the intervention of the ECOWAS mediation team, an agreement was reached, leading to progress in some areas but leaving major issues unresolved.
The APC continues to rely on the cooperation of the Government, political will, and technical support from partners to address the outstanding resolutions. Recently, the APC presented a plan of action to the Government for accelerated coordination, monitoring, and real-time reporting on the Agreement through a dedicated online platform.
Marah informed the UN Permanent Representative to the UN that progress has been made in the implementation of Resolution 3, involving the review of the 2023 elections and previous elections. He expressed hope for continued positive collaboration in the remaining five months of the Committee’s work. The APC representative outlined the terms of reference guiding the Committee’s examination, covering elections results management, certification and publication procedures, electoral laws and regulations, and assessments of key elections management bodies. He emphasized the sacred responsibility of clearing doubts surrounding the compromised 2023 elections and pledged the APC’s commitment to a thorough and cooperative process with the Government and development partners.
Now I’m convinced that the APC is up for businesses as they take on issue not partyisia send
Go ahead Mr marrah and do more research,the motto of Makeni comprehensive Academy (M CA) says “The End Crowd the Work”.
Mr Marah is seeing that’s you were not in this country and you are failing to reyelise that our country or nation is rules and run by our country laws and regulations which we called constitution. In which most likely in time of your repeated measures of your party arrangements many political partizan rulings do sweep this nation constitution under the capate and rules us as you like and forget about the legal elected presidential behavior during your political party arrangements time of office.
Mr Marah if you can record during your political party arrangements rulings during this nation democrats values by holding election with our democracy of not even thinking of freely or fairly of our country electoral votes counted. There we see clearly how your political party arrangements do anything against anybody including the opposition party members with words added on top of it by calling yourself (might APC .) Failing to know our almighty God is bigger than ever things that is been created.
Mr Marah here you were seeing your political party arrangements government officials rulings and rooting our country taxes payers money and property why’s your political party arrangements government officials were faking us by aponting an anty courption head that was in good arrangements with your political party arrangements called APC that never prociquit no of your repeated measures of rooters of our country economy and including resources in which your political affiliation anty courption doing nothing. Even do there were laws and regulations in our country constitution you guys don’t even care for suchlike challenges that were coming during your political party arrangements APC time of office.so please tell the difference between your political party and this movement of this courrent government officials rulings us in clean and white striped or shirt that no other stuff of government officials has done before talking about your evil bloody leader and those that has really taken our country backwards as we are today.
So Mr Marah you need to said that truth and let the devil be ashamed in they themselves can shame who you guys are worshiping everytime its come to talk about governor and governance committee meeting for your people.
So please Mr Marah you need to represent the majority who are going to vote at the end of your repeated measures of calling for resolved the issues of election that we are not seeing clearly the United States embassy is faster pouring there money because what’s the wanted donst happy. To saying it all Mr Marah our country peoples betterment are now know to the highest degree right. So stop this madness of traffic our country to international system of equations calculator that your preaching and attention towards our country at least come back home and started doing good work by fixing our country problem as the courrent government officials are doing instead of countiue to reyelise on international community to gives you guys power that your political party arrangements APC has mess up for more than one dakage that has landed us were we are today with nothing to point at onless this government has come to redream us as a nation that we have started seeing government governorship in our country with rules of laws and regulations in those laws.so please think twice Mr Marah for this season ooooooo.