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Construction of Lungi Bridge to commence soon at $1.2 billion – says president Bio in state of nation address

President Bio delivers state of the nation report amid thundering noise from opposition MPs

IGR CONCERNS ARE "LEGIT" – BUT!! : Sierra Leone Concord Times

March 11, 2021 BY: Winstanley. R. Bankole. Johnson The Institute  of Governance Reforms, under the astute putative leadership of Mr. Andrew Lavallie recently red-flagged cogent issues on transparency and accountability on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangements between the governments of Sierra Leone and China through a Finance, Design, Build Operate and Transfer (FDBOT) intermediation agreement with the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG), using the Toll Gates along the 62Km Freetown/Masiaka road stretch as a case reference and which agreement they (IGR) believe might have potentially adverse consequences for Sierra Leone.  The concerns of the IGR are that the agreement was opaque, in that citizens were not sufficiently informed on:

Former Attorney-General weighs-in on attempts to curtail the independence of Auditor-General

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2021: Discourse and controversy surrounding the functions and independence of the Office of the Auditor-General of Sierra Leone are not new. (Photo above: Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, former Attorney General of Sierra Leone). As Attorney-General in 2016, our offices issued a Legal Opinion on the subject matter: that the Auditor-General’s Office is a creature of the Constitution, and any other law inconsistent with that mandate under the Constitution is ultra vires. The Fiscal Management Control Act (“FMCA”) was drafted and prepared during my tenure, and it did not amend nor intended to affect the provisions relative to the Audit Service.