Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021:
Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio, yesterday called on UN member states to mobilise support for the UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), and has himself pledged $1 million, which he said Sierra Leone will pay annually at a rate of $200,000 over the next five years.
But many Sierra Leoneans are not happy. They say that Sierra Leone is too poor to afford such huge financial outgoing.
President Bio, who joined UN Secretary-General António Guterres
(Photo) yesterday, 25 January 2021 as co-chair of a high-level virtual Replenishment Conference for the UN Peacebuilding Fund to mobilise critical support for conflict prevention and peacebuilding against the Fund’s $1.5 billion requirement for the period 2020-24, expressed gratitude to the UN.
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.
Bintumani Hotel, Freetown, Friday 11 December 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has officially closed the week-long forum on the future of education in the country, praised the efforts of the ministry of education and emphasised that by investing in education is investing in the future of Sierra Leone.
“The future of education in Sierra Leone will define the future of this nation. So this dialogue today is indeed a defining moment in our nation’s history. To define that future, we should define the roles of each actor in shaping the future of education in Sierra Leone.
“Also early this week, I was in the Gabonese Republic at the invitation of my brother, President Ali Bongo Ondimba. I came back with a wholesome view of what is possible with good natural resource governance, economic diversification, and what they call human investment strategy with a 96% primary school education rate,” he said.
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