By: Ilyasa Baa
Appointees of the President especially the Ministers are going to make presentations about the successes of their ministries during the Delegates Conference held in Freetown on 8th and 9th February.
The Ministers are set to show case what they have been doing in governance explaining to the membership of the party how the country is being run by the Sierra Leone Peoples Party ( SLPP) since their election in 2018.
According to the National Secretary General of the SLPP, Umaru Napoleon Koroma, who doubles as Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Justice, those that will be in attendance are not Civil Servants who are supposed to be apolitical but those appointed by the flag bearer of the party will explain how they have managed their ministries.
He said invitation was extended to all political parties, Diplomatic Missions, Civil Society Organizations, and media outlets to grace the two days conference, and that the delegates are drown from constituency, district and regional executives, former MPs, current MPs, students representatives, diaspora branches, support organizations to the party will form the party’s delegate list. “After the conference the delegates are expected to reach out to their zones and talk to their supporters about the party,” Umaru Napoleon Koroma Esq stated.
As for the Ministry of Justice which is his Ministry, he stressed that they the delegates will be told about the reforms the government has made in terms of access to justice. He said the government has created Magistrate Courts in all the sixteen Districts citing that people of Krobolah used to take their cases to Kabala which but can now get to a nearer court in Mongor for justice.
He said the ratio when they assumed power in 2018 was 800 Sierra Leoneans to a single Judge because of poor staffing at the Law Officers Department which they inherited. He noted that when this government came to power, they looked at this issue and recruited at-one-go thirty law officers to expedite indictment which used to delay in the past. He said under the SLPP, bad laws that affected the people were repealed, adding that the newly passed Modern Arbitration’s Law which serves as a hub is a novelty in the sub region.
However, the main opposition All Peoples Congress party (APC) is planning to hold their National Delegates Conference by the end of the month as it remains unclear who will be elected flag bearer to contest with the incumbent President.