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Tripartite, meaning three parts either divided into 3 parts or composed of 3 parts. Dassol!! Nothing more, nothing less.
Sierra Leone will soon enjoy the benefits of a tripartite or 3 parts arrangement and its conclusions will make most people in this country laugh when they come to find out what have been achieved for country through a tripartite agreement.
Who or what are the 3 parts that this tripartite is composed of?
To cut a long story short, this 3 parts arrangement is composed of the two main political parties in Sierra Leone namely, the Sierra Leone People’s Party which is currently in governance, the All People Congress party which is the main opposition and members of the International Community and other Sierra Leonean human rights organizations.
Why the need for a Tripartite Committee?
The electoral laws governing this country have been flawed since the advent of true democracy into this country. Because of this, every Presidential election since 1996, has faced petition except for the 2023 which didn’t happen because the Presidential candidate for the main opposition APC, Dr Samura Kamara, feared karma or akeh.
After the 2012 Presidential election, President Bio who was the opposition candidate then and who was declared the loser by Dr Christiana Thorpe, took his petition to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ended the matter without going into the substantive with even one of the Supreme Court judges concluding that the matter had to be thrown out on the grounds that the declared winner, Ernest Koroma’s name was not mentioned in the petition, this happening even though the High Court Rules made it plain that “no action shall be defeated either through a non joinder or a misjoinder” and the Court giving itself inherent powers to either add a name which is necessary in a matter or remove a name which is not necessary.
Some of the flaws that the Tripartite Committee will be expected to address include a clause in the Public Elections Act which allowed in 2012 only 7 working days to file a petition and for the 2018, 14 working days. It will go.
Many people were wondering how former President Ernest Bai Koroma was able to add a year to his stay in office doing 11 instead of 10.
Well, he did achieve that legally due to the flawed law in the Elections Act which allowed then for a sitting president to (a) decide when elections are to held and (b) to add six months to his tenure twice. Niet to that flawed law, the Tripartite Committee is going to say.
The Tripartite Committee is expected to say now that fixed dates every five years will be on standby for elections.
No more additions, no more tampering with elections dates. Hurray, Hurrah!
These are just examples and when the recommendations come next week it will be all smiles for all those within the boundaries of this country that we all love and every man, woman and child will jump for joy knowing that it’s everlasting peace at last.
All thanks to tripartite that has really tried its best for Sierra Leone.
For the sake of peace in that country Mr Bio is to step down instead of forming so called unity government because he didn’t win the election. If this thing (so called unity government) hold then let Sierra Leone prepare for the worst from any party that will win the next elections in that country.
Let us see the recommendation first before ever we talking about joy,the last time again you people give hope that even maada bio conduct the 2023 June general election he will announce himself has a loser, but as the end of the election (ECSL) announce maada bio has the winner. So we’re patiently waiting for the out come of the tripartile recommendation, we don’t believing in you bloggers, both apc & slpp…..we only believing in the work of the international community……so bloggers stop deceiving people in this process let us wait for the out come….thank you
All what we know is this particular Election 2023 Slpp lost the Election no secret about that let them give the winning to Dr Samura Kamara he is the right winner of the Election that is all I have to say
All what we need to give the power to the winner which is Dr Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara is our President is all what we need for the peace of our country
We most understand the content about Tripitie is not about removing the sitting President or change of government is about ammend the electrol falw from 1996 up-todate. Tripitie doesn’t have the mandatory to change government the articles clearly speak for himself that 2023 elections the opposition didn’t take their matter to court 🙄 their is law in this country
President Bio is still the President and commander in chief of the Republic of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 ♥️
We are waiting with patience expatation for the recommendations of the Trapatite Committee .Looking forward to the International Community in order see if they would support Bio to spoil our democracy in SierraLeone.
Opposition life is not easy and is not for the weak. APC said they won the election yet they have no proof to that effect. They don’t even have their own data that they can use to prove to the Sierra Leoneans and the international community that they won the elections. They have been shouting here and there without no proof. Now that they have given them the opportunity to bring the proof that they won the election but unfortunately they don’t have any bloody proof at all. ECSL has presented the election results to the Tripartite Committee and the Tripartite Committee has asked the APC to present their own data but they don’t have any which clearly means that they were not even serious about the elections. The SLPP clearly won the elections and they have the data to that effect but the APC has none. The funniest part of the whole issue is that APC is accusing the ECSL of foul play but they keep asking ECSL for data. What happened to the RRF forms that were given to their party agents during the elections? It’s that same RRFs that ECSL used to do their computation and those RRFs were given to all political parties including APC. What happened to the RRFs that were given to them? The should come and explain to their supporters because that is where the disaggregated data they have been looking for are.
Nonsense