Courtesy: Foday M. Sesay and The Sierra Leone Daily Mail.

Accountability And Transparency: Sierra Leone Government Will Post Mining Revenues Online For All To See.
																								
											29th November 2011															   ·   0 Comments									
				

Accountability and Transparency: Sierra Leone Government will Post mining Revenues online for all to see.
Amidst distractions, innuendos and a well coordinated  massive propaganda campaign machinery put together by Sierra Leone’s  opposition party SLPP, Sierra Leone is poised for positive change and  development.   While the opposition is now teaming up with international foreign newspapers (Africa Confidential) and major news broadcasting television stations (Al Jazeera),  under the transformational leadership of president Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma Sierra Leone  will soon become one of the most accountable, transparent and developed nations  in sub-Saharan Africa.   Such a purpose-driven focus in improving the poor West African nation will obviously make it difficult for the opposition SLPP  to “bounce back” at 12, O’clock  Sharp” any day after the November 2012 Elections.
In an article , titled “Sierra Leone to post mining revenues online” published by Reuters, Simon Akam wrote, “Sierra Leone will soon launch a public web site to detail mining revenues, in an effort that will help ensure that an expected resource bonanza is handled transparently, officials said.  The West African state is poised to grow at a staggering 51.4 percent in 2012, according to an IMF projection, as two large-scale iron ore mines come into production.”
The paper also reported that Jonathan Sharkah, Director of Mines in Sierra Leone’s Ministry of  Mineral Resources as saying,  “”By the end of 2012 you are going to find every cent that is paid to the government on this web site,”   At a time when opposition operatives,  Africa Confidential, Sorious Samura and Aljazeera Broadcasting Cooperation have teamed up on the propaganda war against the ruling government such news could not have come at a better time.
In the government’s continued efforts to improve on accountability and transparency for  the 2012 Elections,  800 biometric machines  costing over 18 Million USD were recenly purchased with the help of the United Nations.   The machines would help the National  Electoral  Commission secure the  finger prints and facial images of voters.  The data  would ensure that only registered voters can vote, vote only once,  and underage voting is prevented or drastically reduced.  The New Biometric machines will replace the manual voting process that makes the voting process prone to election rigging and therefor political violence.  The leading opposition party, SLPP  were offered such help when they where in office but they refuse to implement such changes in Sierra Leone’s electioneering process.
With the Action, Progress and Commitment of the Sierra Leone Government, Accountability and Transparency will thrive, amidst detractors.


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