By: Mohamed M. Sesay
The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) Fourah Bay College (FBC) Chapter, on Sunday the 21st of August 2022, held a consultative engagement with students from other colleges and Universities to embark on robust nationwide sensitization on the forthcoming voter registration process.
Explaining the importance of the meeting, Amanda Hawa Kanu disclosed that the good spirit of the meeting was to put heads together in order to champion the forthcoming voter registration process in ensuring that, citizens are registered. She added that the meeting is to also embark on robust sensitization about the importance of voter registration in a democratic dispensation.
“Because no one has a monopoly over knowledge was the more reason we deemed it fit to call on constituent institutions to come together and see how we can programme ourselves for a successful registration. We believe that the vote of H.E President Julius Maada Bio is as equivalent as a vote of the ordinary man on the street, the first-time voter, and the University Students”, she said.
Another key member of the SLPP FBC Chapter Minkailu Sama also re-echoed that their motive is to achieve a massive national voter registration across the state-registered academic institutions and private institutions in Sierra Leone. He expressed that since they initiated that programme, he has been encouraging students to take an active part in politics for a better Sierra Leone. Minkailu Sama furthered that voter registration is a very crucial event and he urged all the representatives from various universities and colleges to take the lead. He reminded us that it is only when someone has a voter registration card that would give the lead way to vote in the 2023 general elections. He furthered that it is only when citizens cast their vote for the right person that would enhance good economic policies. He, therefore, assured the gathering that the only person that has the quality to ameliorate development programmes in the country is President Bio.
The Chairman of the occasion Amadu Kamara disclosed that the denial syndrome for citizens to take an active part in the national event has been the norm recent with a pragmatic example of the 2021 Mid-Term Population and Housing Census. He, therefore, encouraged all and sundry to understand the importance of such meetings geared toward sensitizing citizens about enhancing voter registration. Amadu Kamara also encouraged heads of other universities and colleges to put in their best in changing the narrative of denial syndrome in the forthcoming voter registration which would commence on September 3rd-October 3rd.
All the SLPP campus heads from Fourah Bay College (FBC), Institute for Public Administration and Management (IPAM), COMHAS, the Limkokwing University, Freetown Teachers College, Milton Margai College, Blue Christ College, and College of Theology among others were all represented and nodded their indefatigable commitment towards the national voter’s registration in their respective colleges.
