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of April 2006 Reports
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Kabbah at Honours And Awards Ceremony
As part of this year's Independence
Anniversary, President Kabbah took
part in the ceremony for the conferment
of National Honours and Awards on
27 April 2006 at State House.
In all forty-five were honoured, including
four deceased Sierra Leoneans who
were posthumously honoured and one
institution, the Harford School for
Girls.
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(27th
April 2006)
Connaught
and PCM Hospitals Re-Open
This
year's Independence Anniversary, apart
from it being the 45th anniversary
of the Republic of Sierra Leone, was
marked by very significant and epoch-making
events. Three referral hospitals -
Connaught Hospital, Princess Christian
Maternity Hospital (PCMH) and the
Children's Hospital at Fourah Bay
Road were officially reopened to the
public after several months of massive
rehabilitation work
The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan
Kabbah, officially opened the three
referral hospitals on Thursday 27th
April 2006.
With
a fifteen million dollar loan provided
by the African Development Bank, the
Connaught Hospital, which was opened
in 1912 has been rehabilitated as
an ultra modern hospital with state-of-the-art
medical equipment that befit any modern
hospital. This is the second time
Connaught has been rehabilitated since
it was opened in 1912, the first being
in 1920.
While
giving an overview of the project,
Mrs. Abator Thomas, Minister of Health
and Sanitation said the project did
not only include rehabilitation of
the buildings but also the delivery
of medical and non-medical equipment
and training of hospital staff including
doctors and nurses both locally and
internationally. Twenty doctors, 20
nurses, 4 hospital Secretaries at
Master of Science level, 2 nurses
trained in Intensive Care and Critical
Nursing and 25 Pharmacy Technicians
all benefited from the projects training
component. Caterers and hospital security
personnel trained by UNAMSIL are also
among beneficiaries of the training
programme. The rehabilitation project
was not limited to the three referral
hospitals. It included five Western
Area Health Centres at Cline Town,
Ross Road, Kissy, Regent and Jenner
Wright.
The
Chairman of the Hospital Management
Board, Dr. Bernard Frazer was proud
to state that Sierra Leoneans will
no longer need to be flown out of
the country as the Connaught Hospital
has upgraded to deal with any ailment.
At
the PCMH and the Children's Hospital,
President Kabbah admonished staff
and the general public to use the
hospital facilities with the care
it deserves, reminding them that the
loans for the rehabilitation will
have to be paid by Sierra Leoneans.
With
the approval of His Excellency the
President, the Children's Hospital
was renamed Ola During Children's
Hospital, named after the first female
Pediatrician in Sierra Leone, Dr.
Ola During(deceased).
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(27th
April 2006)
Message
To The Nation From The President His
Excellency Alhaji Dr Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
On The Occasion Of The Forty-Fifth
Independence Anniversary
Fellow
Citizens:
Let
me first of all extend best wishes
to all of you, my compatriots who
are celebrating your birthday on 27
April, the forty-fifth anniversary
of the independence of our beloved
country.
I should also like us to remember
and pay tribute to those who laboured
and even sacrificed their lives in
the struggle for freedom and independence
everywhere in the world. We are all
beneficiaries of their vision, their
courage and steadfastness to ensure
the full realization of the inalienable
right of our people to self-determination.
This is also an opportunity to pay
tribute to the men and women who stood
firm and defended our right to live.
We remember with gratitude those who
resisted, in many cases at the expense
of their lives or limbs, the determination
of a misguided minority to destroy
this nation and its people.
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(27th
April 2006)
President
Kabbah Visits Magbass Sugar Complex
Sierra Leone after the almost eleven
years of civil war has been undergoing
a stage of economic reconstruction
and transformation unequal to any
time in its history. Since the war
broke out in 1991, very little or
no produce of substantial economic
viability had left the shores of
Sierra Leone as export.
The
ushering in of peace and stability
in 2002 saw very few well meaning
investors and development partners
who although they had suffered extreme
loses during the war had come back
to rejuvenate their investment in
Sierra Leone. One such investor
is the Chinese Company, the Magbass
Sugar Complant. The Magbass Sugar
Complant recommenced its activities
in 2003 with a complete rehabilitation
of its vandalised sugar production
complex and sugar cane cultivation
in Mamuntha section, Magburaka in
the Tonkolili District. With three
years of hard work, the Magbass
Sugar Complant is fully operational,
and Sierra Leone is now among the
sugar exporting countries of the
world. A total of 5,800 tons of
sugar is now ready for export to
Europe.
(24th
April 2006)
 President
Kabbah Visits Marika Palm Kernel Oil
Mill
On
route to the Magbass Sugar Complant,
President Kabbah made a brief stopover
at the MARIKA Palm Kernel Oil Mill
at the Wellington Industrial Estate
in the east-end of Freetown, where
he was shown round the mill by the
proprietor Mr. Sahid Koroma.
The MARIKA Palm Kernel Oil Mill
owned by an indigenous Sierra Leonean
businessman who took over and rehabilitated
what was formerly the Sierra Leone
Palm Kernel Oil Mill.
The Mill now produces vegetable
oil, soap etc for the local market.
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(24th
April 2006)
President
Kabbah Commissions $17 Million Concrete
Block-Making Factory
 In
its contribution to ameliorate housing
problems in Sierra Leone, the National
Social Security and Insurance Trust
(NASSIT) has undertaken as one of
its investment projects the construction
of a Concrete block-making Factory
and Stone Quarry Crushing Plants
at Angola Town, Adonkia in the West
End of Freetown as well as Real
Estate at Goderich in the west and
Yams Farm in the east of Freetown.
The project is a joint venture investment
between NASSIT and a Ghanaian business
firm, Regimanuel Gray (Ghana) Ltd,
with a 60:40% shareholding respectively,
under the Sierrablock Concrete Products
Ltd.
The Director General of NASSIT,
Mr. Edmund Koroma, said that the
project is NASSIT's contribution
to the economic and social development
of Sierra Leone, since they have
recognized that social security
benefits should be enjoyed during
active life and not only in retirement.
The returns on these investments,
he said, are necessary to accumulate
the reserves required to meet current
and future benefit payments.
The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad
Tejan Kabbah, on Tuesday 25th April
2006 commissioned the Sierrablock
Concrete Products Factory and the
Stone Quarry Crushing Plants and
performed the ground-breaking ceremony
for the construction of the 200
houses Goderich Estate.
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(23rd
April 2006)
Independent
Media Commission Presents Annual Report
The
Independent Media Commission (IMC),
which came into operation in 2000
by an Act of Parliament, has presented
its maiden annual report since its
inception to President Alhaji Dr
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at his Hill Station
office in Freetown.
At
the presentation ceremony, the Chairperson
of the IMC, Mrs. Bernadette Cole
who took up appointment in 2005,
told President Kabbah that the year
2005 witnessed substantial progress
in the IMC. As of its key mandates,
is to develop rules and regulations
governing the operations of the
media in Sierra Leone and a Media
Code of Practice, the IMC Board
took up this mandate with zest,
and with the active collaboration
of the Sierra Leone Association
of Journalists and other stakeholders
the exercise was pursued simultaneously
with the revision of the IMC Act
2000 to synchronize the information
in the Media Code of Practice with
that in the Act to minimize conflict
in the future. These documents,
she said, which are currently being
processed by the Law Officers' Department
for the attention of, and ratification
by Parliament would provide the
much needed guidelines to journalists
for self regulation and for strengthening
the authority of the IMC to carry
out its functions more effectively
(21st
April 2006)
Bo
School Centenary
The
Bo Government Secondary School,
the first secondary school in the
provinces has celebrated its one
hundred years of existence. The
Bo school was established in 1906
by the then colonial government
as a means of providing secondary
education to sons and nominees of
Paramount Chiefs.
Although
the Bo School is today opened to
all Sierra Leoneans, it still maintains
its tradition of being fully residential
and wholly boys' school. This was
evident at the school's Centenary
celebrations which commenced with
a flag-raising ceremony on Thursday,
13th April 2006 at the grounds of
the school compound and a Durbar
of Paramount Chiefs from all over
the country.
President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Vice President
Solomon Berewa were in Bo to grace
the occasion. President Kabbah gave
the keynote address at the school's
Prize Giving ceremony on Friday
14th April 2006.
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(14th
April 2006)
President
Kabbah Launches Paramount Chiefs'
HIV/AIDS Initiative Project
HIV/AIDS,
the world's most dreaded pandemic
of recent times has not only affected
a substantial percentage of Sierra
Leone's population, but has been
seen to be growing. In 2002, 45,000
Sierra Leoneans were said to be
living with HIV. This figure has
risen today to an estimated 75,000.
This alarming rise in the number
of infected persons has attracted
concern from various levels of the
Sierra Leonean society.
The Paramount Chiefs and other traditional
leaders have taken the initiative
to join hands with government in
the fight against the HIV and AIDS.
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was
in Bo on Thursday 13th April and
launched the "National Council
of Paramount Chiefs/Traditional
leaders' HIV/AIDS Initiative-Sierra
Leone" at the Bo Town Hall.
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(11th
April 2006)
President
Kabbah Visits Timbuktu
The
President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan
Kabbah, was in Timbuktu, Republic
of Mali on Monday 10th April 2006
to participate in celebrations marking
the birthday of the Holy Prophet
Mohammad (May Peace and Blessings
of Allah be upon him).
Arriving
at Timbuktu International airport
by 12 noon on Monday 10th April,
the President took part in evening
prayers at Timbuktu's stadium together
with other Muslim leaders, prominent
among whom was Libya's leader, Colonel
Muammar Ghadaffi, President Wade
of Senegal, Mauritanian leader,
Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, President
of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, host President
Amadou Toumani Toure and a host
of important Islamic leaders and
figures from all over the world.
(11th
April 2006)
President
Kabbah Opens Sierra Leone Investment
Forum
After
years of civil strife Sierra Leone
is at peace. Security and stability
are restored, democracy and accountability
firmly established, and the rule
of law prevails on the basis of
a solid constitution. The country
is open for business. The Commonwealth
Business Council in partnership
with the Government of Sierra Leone
has organised the first global investor
conference in post-conflict Sierra
Leone.
According
to its organisers there has never
been a better time for international
investors and entrepreneurs to take
a look at a country on the verge
of recovery-led growth. In August
2005 a Security Council resolution
mandated the newly established UN
Integrated Office in Sierra Leone
to "create an enabling environment
for private investment." In
the months that followed, international
donors pledged US$800 million for
the purposes of national reconstruction.
The
next step is for the private sector
to take these enabling measures
forward through investment on the
ground.
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(28th
March 2006)
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