Popular female politician Dr. Sylvia Blyden has explained in detail how the PR system came into existence and accused BBC journalist Umaru Fofana and ECSL boss Mohamed Konneh of misinformation.
Dr. Blyden starts by highlighting the different electoral systems practice in Sierra Leone since 1924 and how the PR system came into existence in 1996 at the Bintumani 1 conference.
After giving a rundown of the Bintumani 1 conference and the PR system only to be used in 1996, she went further and said, Umaru Fofana, the BBC journalist has misinformed the public by saying the PR system was introduced by former Head of State Valentine Strasser in 1996.
She states that the PR system was chosen by the people of Sierra Leone only for the 1996 election and not by Valentine Strasser, and asked that he apologized to the public and make the necessary corrections.
Dr. Bylden also accused ECSL boss Mohamed Konneh of making false statements in his BBC interview which she starts by saying Mohamed Konneh states that the 2018 boundary delimitation expired in February this year.
She promised to address the statements made by the ECSL boss in her next edition of the broadcast.
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