The Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning Dr. Turad Senesie has announced that President Julius Maada Bio led the Government of Sierra Leone is working assiduously towards the establishment of a Micro-City that will be inhabited by the current crop of Commercial Motorbikes and Tricycle Riders (Okada and Kekeh Riders).
The Minister made this disclosure on Tuesday, March 28 2023 during an outreach meeting held at the Head Office of the Sierra Leone Commercial Motor Bikes Riders Union at Up Gun in Freetown.
The meeting was swamped by hundreds of commercial motorbikes union executive members from various parks and districts in the Western Area Region, who had converged and invited the Minister to sensitize the general membership of over one million one hundred thousand registered riders through the Union in respect of the land raffle for Okada/Kekeh Riders.
Dr. Turad Senesie told the riders that they were close to the heart of the President, who values their struggles and partnership in national development.
“We have secured and properly planned plots of State Land to be allocated to Okada/Kekeh Riders through the land raffle model as a first step towards the establishment of an Okada/Kekeh Micro-City,” the Minister disclosed, adding that the State will ensure the identified community is well demarcated and planned with all basic social amenities including roads, schools, hospital and recreational centres.
He called on the riders to register in their numbers to participate in the most transparent, fair and credible raffle that will make them become landowners in Sierra Leone.
The Minister reminded the audience that it was now time for the riders to benefit from the national cake after successfully giving lands to the security sector, medical practitioners, teachers/lecturers, journalists, civil servants and more through the land raffle model.
The National President of the Sierra Leone Commercial Motor Bikes Riders Union Mr. Umaru Talie Bah and his entire executive praised the Minister for this initiative while thanking the President for considering them as partners in development.
They promised to make good use of this opportunity.
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