August 17, 2021
Part: 014 15/8/2021.
BY UNCLE SANKARA
The just ended Global Education Summit in London places Sierra Leone on a good footing. We were chosen and invited by a consortium of Education experts who have been constantly monitoring our educational performances amongst 54 African countries. We were successful though, to put in place all required mythologies needed to advance the educational challenges faced by developing nations. So, should we not be proud to be chosen among eleven countries in Africa? What about the other thirty-three countries which were equally sponsored by donor countries but ended up with poor performances?
In London, President Bio informed the world about the educational challenges he faced and strategies he applied to reach a global appreciation worth emulation. For him to score a much more higher rating than the one he has achieved, President Maada Bio spent days after the summit to lobby among education partners in the heart of London. After getting satisfactory added financial assurances to boost further his educational needs from his host organizers, President Bio does not end there, he journeys to Turkey on a recess visit to cater for more economic support from Turkey.
In support of president Maada Bio’s political sportsmanship, those who have been keen to follow the diplomatic relations between Ankara and Freetown or more so between Turkey and Sierra Leone over the years will agree that Turkey has boosted Sierra Leonean students especially the Muslim Community to offer more advance studies followed by a leverage of economic packages graced with improvement in our energy sector and other related educational schemes. The Turkish history informs us of an ancient country which has played and continues to play a prime role in Arab civilization and a credible transformation of kingship dynasties. Its topography is the heart of focus as it separates Europe from the rest of the world via the Middle East.
Sierra Leoneans in Turkey in particular Ankara, Istanbul Turkish Cyprus and else were in the territory have never been victims of immigration harassment. Turkish hospitality to Sierra Leoneans is at a high level of fraternity than one separated thousands of miles away. The Turkish diplomatic shuttle includes total inclusion of development at all levels. President Maada Bio is on a restless holiday, if not, he would have chosen a summer holiday like other presidents of the world to go to Las Palmas, Idiza, Tenerife, Palma Mallorca all Spanish Islands were he would have gone holidaying with his family in pleasure. But for President Maada Bio, he prefers to go to Turkey and when the microphones alarm to call for each of the five daily prayers in the pillars of Islam, he will join a Jamma’at of Muslim worshippers to pray for the prosperity and peaceful Co-existence of Sierra Leone and Sierra Leoneans.