NaCSA Commissioner Amb. Ernest Mbaimba Ndomahina has on Friday, November 10, 2023 led a delegation from BMZ, KfW , GIZ and staff of the German Embassy in Freetown on a day mission to Kambia District.
In Kambia, which is one of the five operational districts of the NaCSA implemented GPC III Project, the delegation was received by the Chief Administrator of the Kambia District Council, Dr. Edward Alpha, who thanked the Commissioner for the thought of paying the Council a courtesy call. Something he noted, is very rare among other partners.
Dr. Alpha commended the GPC III project and affirmed that they are greatly relieved by its operations and interventions in the district. Kambia District, he furthered, is a Rice predominant district. Despite its ecology, the district used to suffered hording which made the price of rice the highest in the entire country. Key factor for this, he noted was the deplorable conditions of the roads. As a result, he said made farmers to take their produce into neighbouring Guinea.
The coming of the GPC III project in the district, he confessed has change the narrative. Because of the GPC interventions, especially in the area of feeder road rehabilitations, which have inevitably opened access between the farms and the markets centres, there are significant benefits for both the counciland the communities. These, he said cut across revenue generation for the council and increase production for the farmers. Based on its achievements, the Chief Administrator ended up pleading for the project to stay in Kambia.
For NaCSA, the Council is a key strategic partner. In his statement at the Council, the Commissioner of NaCSA, Ambassador Ernest Mbaimba Ndomahina thanked Chief Administrator his warmth welcome and registered NaCSA’s appreciation and commitment in working with the council. In demonstration of this, the Commissioner presented a bottle of water and kola nut, while requesting the Council’s permission to embark on the mission at key project implementation sites in the district.
In her contribution, the Head of Delegation for the Mission, Dr. Sabine Lindemann, disclosed that Germany has been by the side of the Government and people of Sierra Leone since 2013, immediately after the civil war. The GPC project, she noted has been in operation in Sierra Leone for eighteen (18) years and has focused itself on peace consolidation. On the objective of the mission, she affirmed is to assess the implementation progress, while planning for another phase for the project. This time round, she noted, they will be linking the GPC with the Employment Promotion Programme (EPP) in order to add value to their interventions.
Forming part of the Mission were visits to key project implementation sites, including the GPC III Feeder Road rehabilitation sites, Grain stores at Gbonkomaria and Rokel villages and the holding of meetings with members of the Facility Management Committees of the two centres respectively.
Amb. Ndomahina presenting a gift of water and kola nut from the Council to the Head of Delegation, Dr. Sabine Lindemann
Amb. Ndomahina and the Mission members at Gbonkomariea Grain Store
Amb. Ndomahina doing a symbolic launching of the Gbonkomariea Grain Store
Amb. Ndomahina and the Mission members inspecting one of the GPC III rehabilitated feeder roads