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The Executive Secretary of the Peace Commission, Hwa Samai, has clarified that the Electoral Commission restructuring due by December 2026 does not include the removal of Edmond Alpha as Chief Electoral Commissioner.
Samai made this statement on Liberty Online TV while speaking on issues regarding peace and the appointment of Edmond Alpha as the Chairman of the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone, ECSL.
Samai reads an extract from the tripartite recommendation, which states: “The parties commit to implement electoral reforms as contained in the tripartite committee recommendation, in particular recommendation 36.
The parties commit to reconstruct the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone within the framework and principles of the unity agreement not later than the 31, of December 2026. The parties further agree that where there is undue delay in implementing the reforms within the agreed timeline, the parties and the moral guarantors will revert to review the situation.
According to Samai, the tripartite recommendations were in existence before the appointment of Edmond Alpha, which does not qualify the discussion of Alpha’s appointment under the tripartite recommendations.
She further stated that part of the tripartite recommendations was to engage in management and functional review on the electoral commission, which she and the Public Sector Reform funded by the EU had done with 80 recommendations, which they are to implement.
She disclosed that reconstruction of the ECSL according to the recommendations is only applicable to staff and not commissioners.
