The leadership and representatives of the All Peoples Congress (APC), Coalition for Change Party (C4C), the National Grand Coalition (NGC), and the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), have on Monday 6th March 2023 signed a communiqué with the Political Parties Regulation Commission (PPRC) at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown.

The Communiqué was signed at a dialogue lunch convened by the PPRC, the parties agreed to promote, observe and enforce the observance of the cultural and moral values of society and to condemn all forms of obscenities, vulgarities, hate speech, and all other proscribed conduct in the Political Parties Act No 25 of 2022, against their political opponents.

It was also agreed that political parties will continue to engage and admonish their members and supporters to refrain from all such conduct, in the course of their partisan activities and that they commit to support and cooperate with the Sierra Leone Police, to identify and arrest perpetrators of all such proscribed conduct, in the course of their activities.

The Political Parties encouraged the PPRC to engage the leadership of Political Parties, before invoking the powers conferred on them in the new Act, each time there is perceived transgression by any of the Parties, in the spirit of cooperation and goodwill.

Below is the Memorandum of Understanding between the Political Parties and the Political Party Registration Commission:

“WE the undersigned Political Parties in Parliament at a dialogue lunch convened for that purpose, extensively discussed the new Political Parties Act No.25 of 2022, to support the Political Parties Regulation Commission (hereinafter called “, the PPRC”), in the observance of its provisions and in consequent thereof resolved as follows:

To promote, observe and enforce the observance of the cultural and moral values of our society

Condemn all forms of obscenities, vulgarities, hatespeech, and all other proscribed

i).conduct in the Act, against our political opponents. iii). Continue to engage and admonish our Members and Supporters to refrain from all such conduct, in the course of our Partisan activities. iv). Commit to support and cooperate with the Sierra Leone Police, to identify and arrest

perpetrators of all such proscribed conduct, in the course of our activities.

We encourage the PPRC to first engage the leadership of Political Parties, before

invoking the powers conferred on them in the new Act, each time there is perceived

transgression by any of our Parties, in the spirit of cooperation and goodwill.”