James Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2021:
As we start a new decade, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone faces the daunting task of rebuilding a deteriorating economy that is beset by staggering corruption and the appointment of incompetent officials, in the past decade.
Principled leadership is required in all spheres of government to put Sierra Leone on a path of economic growth and to improve the quality of governance.
The past decade was dominated by a great deal of lip service rather than instituting practical measures to mitigate and work towards solving the issues facing the country.
On the 28th of February 2019, the government of President Julius Maada Bio launched the Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP) to promote sustainable economic growth and transformation and chart the way forward to become a middle income country by 2035.
President Bio called for accelerated service delivery. You could say that thousands of time. Because we are still waiting for your first national all inclusive developments you promised us in your campaign trail. As the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, signed services delivery projects with national and international non – governmental organisations, is only good that you came out with those mindless comments. Indeed, NGOs plays a vital role in all development sectors, alongside the government national strategic action development plan. It is all well, and good for the government to go in to agreement with this NGOs, to boost the agriculture sector, in the process giving quality training to our local farmers to be more productive.