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Sierra Leone’s Government through the Minister of Local Government and Community Affairs, Tamba Lamina is set to separate several chiefdoms in the provinces due to in-fights and disunity.
Lamina has said they are working on de-amalgamating chiefdoms where he said there is a power struggle and persistent disunity.
Lamina was updating newsmen of his ministry’s activities at the government’s weekly press conference held at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Freetown on 28th May 2024 and made this proclamation. “The Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs is working on de-amalgamating some chiefdoms, a process that was started on the previous government,” he added.
He described the process of becoming, paramount chief as a “difficult one, which he said is obtained through birthright. He went on to highlight that there are currently twenty-two local councils and 190 chiefdoms across the country, emphasizing the safeguarding and protection of paramount chieftaincy
as one of the entrenched causes in the National Constitution. On the twelve newly-crowned paramount chiefs from different chiefdoms across the country, he described the event as colorful due- to the coronation of two female paramount chiefs. “Chieftaincy is based on the customs and traditions of the locality Where the customs and traditions are, and females can contest for the position Lamina noted how one of the female paramount chiefs from Kova Chiefdom in Yomaba District and the other from Nongoba Bullom Chiefdom in Bonth.
He went on to explain the government salaries of paramount chiefs and chiefdom speakers. He added their government has also said that 45 paramount chiefs have vehicles and that the remaining paramount chiefs would have theirs after the second consignment of vehicles arrives.
These vehicles he said will be used to facilitate chiefdoms activities.
Government is busy buying fancy things for themselves and neglecting the needs of the country.
Please, we are expecting the government to focus on Agriculture.
I thank the ministry of local government and the government of sierra Leone for fighting hard to satisfy the people of sierra Leone.
Is only that we have some unpatriotic sierra Leonean who do not want to give peace chance but really our government is working hard to see sustainable development happened in our country.
Upon all the global effect all over, our responsible government is working hard to see that sierra Leone we start to feed ourselves.
Thank to ministry of local government and our responsible government, His Excellency Retired, Julius Maada Bio.
May God guide and protect you All.