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President's Message

Presidents' MessageI would like to congratulate UK & Ireland Branch in the launching of the SLPP website. I am delighted to associate myself with this initiative to the new communications technology to disseminate objective information about our country, its culture and government, as well as the role of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) in our multiparty democracy.

Needless to say that the website will also provide a forum for dialogue and constructive debates on national issues. These interactions should enhance our capacity to formulate policies and set realistic goals for national development. The platform for these debates may be partisan, but their primary objectives and outcomes should be in the national interest. The motto of our party, "One Country, One People" provides an appropriate guide for determining the mission and content of the new website.

When our party assumed political leadership in 1996, the challenges that faced the country and the party were daunting. The first was ensuring the security and safety of the people of Sierra Leone. It was evident, as it is today, that peace and national reconciliation are meaningless in the absence of security. This is why Government, under the leadership of SLPP, has made security and safety of our people the priority issue on the national agenda. The restructuring and creation of a truly professional and loyal army and police should go a long way in restoring confidence in our security and law-enforcement systems.

Other challenges we faced can be summarised as follows:

  • Rehabilitating war victims as well as vital economic and social infrastructures
  • Facilitating national reconciliation
  • Reviving external interest in reconstruction and long-term investment programmes
  • Strengthening participatory governance through decentralisation
  • Projecting a positive image of the nation abroad

Meeting these challenges has not been easy. However, given the magnitude and complexity of the problems, and in spite of the aggressive action of unpatriotic forces and their external collaborators to deter our economic development by attempts to derail the peace process, I can say that we have already succeeded in laying a solid foundation for a more secure, safer and prosperous Sierra Leone. Obviously, much remains to be done. In this regard, I believe that the SLPP website can make an invaluable contribution by being a catalyst for the kind of political recommitment we need to mobilise our material and human resources for meeting the current and emerging challenges of a post-conflict society.

Our Party can take the lead in filling the current gap in political education

In launching this website, you are opening a new window in cyberspace through which your visitors can see Sierra Leone, assess the quality of the oldest and leading political party, and even determine its viability as a politically stable democracy. There is, in my view, an urgent need for sustained political education for the benefit of Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad, one that is based essentially on issues and action-oriented plans for the development of the country. I believe our Party can take the lead in filling the current gap in political education through the Internet.

Once again, I congratulate the Chairman, the Executive and the entire membership of the SLPP UK & Ireland branch who are working to create and maintain the site. I look forward to visiting it myself as soon as it becomes operational, and as often as time permits.

ALHAJI DR. AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE

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