May 17, 2021
By Mohamed M. Sesay
As he celebrated his birthday and equally commemorated one year of successful operation of Emmanuel’s Salaries Solutions Limited, the Chief Executive Officer of Emmanuel’s Salaries Solutions Limited who also doubles as the country’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hon. Solomon Segepoh Thomas has on Friday the 14th of May, donated food items worth fifty-nine million seven hundred thousand Leones (Le 59,700,000) in monetary values to Persons Living with Disability and less privileged.
The donated items include Bags of rice, bags of onions, cartoons of Maggie, gallons of oil and palm oil sachets water among others. The beneficiaries of that special birthday gifts were Milton Margai School for the Blind, Mahanaim Disabled Orphanage home at Grafton, God’s Will Children’s Home and War Widows for Christ at Grafton.
Explaining the initiative of celebrating his birthday with Persons Living with Disability and the less privileged, Hon. Solomon Segepoh Thomas intimated that he just got the inspiration to celebrate this years’ birthday with person’s with disability and the most vulnerable. He described it as his own way of extending love to the needy category of populace. He said he want them to feel belonged.
Hon. Thomas added that he would have chosen to host a very boisterous birthday celebration with his family alone at any of the beautiful beaches around Freetown but said he felt the need to reach out to the less privileged people and hobnob with them.
Hon. Thomas also noted that his birthday celebration coincided with the one year commemoration of the Emmanuel’s Salaries Solutions and therefore decided to do a blend celebration.
Hon. Segepoh Thomas explained the model of Emmanuel’s Salaries Solution wherein employees who sometimes face the compelling urge for funds but unfortunately there is nowhere for them to get the funds from especially with stringent procedures in banks, he decided to ease the burden by providing an opportunity to loan and repay based on a relatively low interest.
“We wanted to make salary loan less burdensome and very fast that is the more reason we established this company. It was very close to my birthday when we launched this particular company and my wife and I decided to have a dual celebration which is my birthday and that of the birthday of my company”, he said.
Honorable Thomas continued that the establishment of Emmanuel’s Salaries Solutions has nothing to do with politics and it is not money generated from politics. He said it is a loan he took from the bank coupled with his legal consultancy fees just to start up the business. He added that the establishment of the company is to serve as a springboard to other Sierra Leoneans to invest in business which will also create jobs for other sierra Leoneans. He added that, Emmanuel’s Salaries Solutions has over fifteen Sierra Leonean staff all gainfully employed.
He therefore encouraged other politician to replicate his footstep that will create job opportunities for many Sierra Leoneans rather solely dependent on government.
Hon. Thomas assured that he has plan to also extend branches of Emmanuel’s Salaries Solutions to the provinces in the next two months so that other people in those part of the country will have access to a fast paced salary loan facility.
Expressing his profound gratitude to the Deputy Speaker on behalf of the Milton Margai School for the Blind, the Principal Milton Margai School for the Blind Salieu Turay said the generous gesture made by the CEO and Deputy Speaker of Parliament was very timely and wonderful. He said they are very grateful to Emmanuel’s Salaries Solutions Limited for chosen Milton Margai School for the Blind to make such enormous donation and also celebrated the birthday of the Deputy Speaker with them. He stressed on the value of the gifts because his school is a bordering homes with over ninety children and they feed them three times a day. He appealed to other organizations and individual persons to go to the Milton Margai School for the Blind and continue to make them happy as the Deputy Speaker has just done to them.
Also receiving the donated birthday gift, the Head of the Mahanaim Disability Orphanage Home in Grafton Mary-Rose Hawa said the birthday gift given to them was a very big favor. She therefore prayed for divine blessing and protection to be showered over Hon. Thomas and his wife. She added that the orphanage is really constrained in terms of food stuff and other feld needs. She concluded by calling on other state actors to copy the work of Hon. Thomas by extending helping hands to the less privileged.
The Head of the God’s will Children’s Foundation who also doubles as the founder of the War Widows for Christ Margret Tucker also extended her profound thanks and appreciations to Hon. Thomas and his wife for thinking about them.. He said the Deputy Speaker exactly worked in tandem with what the bible says regarding feeding the widows. She concluded that if Sierra Leone has just ten of Segepoh Thomas’s then there will be no beggars on the street.