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Archive
of May 2004 Reports
President
Kabbah In Kono and Kenema
The
President, Alhaji Dr Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,
has returned to Freetown from a one-and-half-day
visit to Kono and Kenema where he officially
inaugurated a primary school, an islamic
centre and a lawn tennis court constructed
by the third Pakistani contingent serving
in Unamsil (PAKBATT 8), as part of their
humanitarian effort to contribute to
the social development of communities
within their areas of deployment.
(28th
May 2004)
US
Ambassador Peter Chaveas Bids Farewell
The US Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Peter
Chaveas, took formal leave of the President,
Alhaji Dr Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, at the
Hill Station PresidentiaL Lodge on Tuesday,
25th May 2004.
(25th
May 2004)
Local
Council Elections
The President, His Excellency Alhaji
Dr.
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, today 22nd May 2004
join other Sierra Leoneans all over
the country to vote in the local council
elections. Details later
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(22nd
May 2004)
United
States Gets New Embassy Complex In Freetown
The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan
Kabbah, together with United States
Ambassador to Sierra Leone Peter Chaveas
and Director for Overseas Building Operations
of the US Department of State, General
Charles Williams, performed on Friday
21 May 2004 the groundbreaking ceremony
for the construction of a new embassy
complex in Freetown.
The
fifty million dollar embassy complex
is to be constructed at the foot of
Leicester Peak with a target completion
timeframe of twenty-four months in April
2006.
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(21st
May 2004)
Mano
River Union Reactivated 
A one-day summit of Heads of State of
the Mano River Union was held in the
Guinean Capital, Conakry with the three
leaders of the Mano River Union States,
Presidents Lansana Conte of Guinea,
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Chairman Gyude
Bryant of Liberia expressing their commitment
to support all initiatives aimed at
the promotion of confidence-building
measures and security in the sub-region
in order to strengthen cooperation amongst
member countries and speed up their
integration and sustainable development.
(20th
May 2004)
President
Kabbah Tours The North
The
President, His Excellency Dr. Alhaji
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, returned to Freetown
Monday 17th May 2004 from a three-day
visit to parts of the Bombali, Tonkolili
and Koinadugu districts.
The purpose of the visit was to sensitize
the people about the importance of the
forthcoming local government elections
and to clarify any misconception people
may have about the elections.
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(18th
May 2004)
President
Kabbah Returns From Ghana
The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan
Kabbah, returned home today Wednesday
12 May, 2004 from Ghana, where he witnessed
the ASANTEMAN ADAEKESE, the high point
of the celebration of the fifth anniversary
on the stool of the Asante King (The
Asantehene) His Majesty Otumfuo Osei
Tutu the second.
(12th
May 2004)
Nigeria's
Chief Of Defence Staff Calls On President
Kabbah
Chief
of Defence Staff of Nigeria, General
A.O. Ogomudia, paid a courtesy call
on President Kabbah Friday 7 May 2004
at the Presidential Lodge.
(7th
May 2004)
New
German Ambassador Presents Credentials
The new German Ambassador to Sierra
Leone, Mr. Dirk Baumgartner presented
his letters of credence and at the same
time submitted the letter recalling
his predecessor Friday 7 May 2004 to
President Kabbah at the Presidential
Lodge in Freetown.
(7th
May 2004)
Commonwealth
Secretary-General The Rt. Hon. Don McKinnon
Visits Sierra Leone
Commonwealth Secretary-General the Rt.
Hon. Don McKinnon is in Freetown, Sierra
Leone on an official visit.
On
Thursday 6 May 2004 the Head of the
Commonwealth Secretariat paid a courtesy
call on President Alhaji Dr Ahmad Tejan
Kabbah at the Presidential Lodge at
Hill Station where they discussed a
wide range of issues about the Commonwealth.
(6th
May 2004)
Sierra
Leone Commercial Bank Pays Dividend
The
Sierra Leone Commercial Bank has presented
a dividend payment of Le 1.3bn to government,
its sole shareholder. A copy of the
bank's annual report and accounts for
the year 2003 were also presented to
the President at a ceremony, which took
place at the lodge.
Chairman of the National Privatisation
Commission, A R Turay said this year's
dividend is twenty-five million Leones
higher compared to last year's.
(5th
May 2004)
President
Kabbah Receives Church Members
In
another development President Kabbah
received in audience members of the
faith, victory and freedom church in
the United States led by Bishop Harvester
Gupta.
(4th
May 2004)
Kenema
High Court
Opens
Continuing his series of nationwide
launching and commissioning of newly
constructed and rehabilitated infrastructure,
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah officially
opened the new Kenema dual purpose High
Court building, which many have described
as an architectural first class job
on Friday 30th April 2004
The erection of the court is part of
the British-assisted Law Development
Project for Sierra Leone that began
in January 2001.
(30th
April
2004)
Rokel
Commercial Bank Presents Dividend
The
outgoing Chairman of the Rokel Commercial
Bank, formerly Barclays Bank Limited,
Mr. A. Dunstan M'cormack, has officially
presented to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
a cheque worth Le. 1.998,743,000 (one
billion, nine hundred and ninety eight
million, seven hundred and forty three
thousand) being 51% dividend payable
to government for the year ending 31st
December 2003.
(30th
April
2004)
President
Kabbah Honours Thirty-Four Sierra Leoneans
As
part of Sierra Leone's 43rd Independence
Anniversary celebrations at State House
in Freetown Tuesday 27th April 2004,
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah honoured
thirty-four Sierra Leoneans and organisations
with much coveted National Awards at
a well-attended and colourful investiture
ceremony characterised by its traditional
pomp and pageantry.
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(27th
April
2004)
Sierra
Leone's 43rd Independence Anniversary
On
the occasion
of the 43rd Independence Day Anniversary
of Sierra Leone today 27th April 2004,
President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,
travelled by helicopter with Vice President
Solomon Berewa to Gbangbatoke in the Moyamba
District, birthplace of the late Sir Albert
Michael Margai KCMG, second Prime Minister
of Sierra Leone from 1964 to 1967, where
a graveside service was held in honour
of the deceased.
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(27thApril
2004)
Archive
of April 2004 Reports
President
Kabbah Inducted As H onorary
Alumnus of Government Secondary School
Kenema
The alumni association of the Government
Secondary School Kenema (GSSK), has inducted
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah as the first
honorary alumnus of the school during
an impressive ceremony held at the school
grounds on Friday 23rd April 2004.
(24thApril
2004)
President
Kabbah
At European Commission Headquarters
President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has outlined what he
referred to as the "still outstanding
issues that are critical to Sierra Leone's
reconstruction programme," during
his meeting with a group of senior officials
of the European Commission (EC) at the
Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday
16th April 2004.
(19th
April 2004)
President
Kabbah Arrives Istanbul Via Abidjan, Meets
Madeleine Albright
President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah arrived in Istanbul,
capital of the Turkish Republic Sunday
11th April 2004 ahead of the opening of
the first four day Congress of Democrats
from the Islamic World at the Conference
Centre of the Conrad Hotel in Istanbul.
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(14thApril
2004)
Greek
Envoy Presents Credentials
The
newly accredited Greek ambassador to Sierra
Leone, His Excellency Mr. Christoforos
Giovas, has said that the government of
the Hellenic Republic would include Sierra
Leonean military officers in its military
scholarship scheme by the next academic
year. Ambassador Giovas, who made the
commitment on the occasion of the presentation
of his credentials at the Presidential
Lodge Tuesday, 6th April 2004, indicated
that proposals in respect of the scholarships
would be made shortly after returning
to his base in Abuja, Nigeria.
(6thApril
2004)
New
Digital
Telephone
Exchanges For Bo, Kenema And
Lungi
President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has made public his
displeasure about the non-performance
over the past years of the board and management
of the Sierra Leone Telecommunications
Company (Sierratel), charging that corporate
financial malpractices had even made it
impossible for the company to pay dividends
to government since he became President
in 1996.
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(4thApril
2004)
President
Kabbah Commissions New Rice Mill In Bo
Farmers
in Bo District have made a significant
contribution in response to President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's pledge for national
food security by the year 2007. According
to official records from the Ministry
of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security,
Bo District rice growers increased their
rice production by 100%, from about 22,000
metric tons in 2002 to 44,000 metric tons
in 2003, representing 10% of the total
national production.
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(4thApril
2004)
World
Bank Team Nods War On HIV/AIDS
Mr.
Malonga Miatudila, leader of the World
Bank mission evaluating progress on the
Sierra Leone HIV/AIDS Response Project
(SHARP), has indicated his satisfaction
with the general level of awareness of
the HIV/AIDS pandemic during a meeting
with President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at the
Hill Station Lodge Thursday 1st April
2004.
(1st
April 2004)
Archive
of March 2004 Reports
Ne w
Irish Envoy Presents Credentials
"Ireland
recognises the important positive role
model which Sierra Leone is both for West
Africa and indeed for the whole of Africa
in the area of conflict resolution,"
the new ambassador of the Republic of
Ireland to Sierra Leone, His Excellency
Liam Caniffe said Friday 26th March 2004,
as he presented his letters of credence
to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at the
Hill Station Lodge.
(26th
March
2004)
President
Kabbah Previews "Bai Bureh Goes To
War"
Retired Major Abu Noah, author, poet and
Executive Producer of one of the latest
films to be shot and produced in Sierra
Leone in recent times, "Bai Bureh
Goes to war," has given a special
preview of the movie at the Hill Station
Presidential Lodge Friday 26th March 2004.
Realised in collaboration with professional
Nigerian moviemakers, the film also featured
a largely Sierra Leonean cast and a cream
of award winning Nigerian directors and
actors, including Fred Amata, Olu Jacobs,
Omotola Jolade Ekeinde and Genevieve Nnaji.
(26th
March
2004)
Bum buna
Project Contractor
Briefs President Kabbah
The
Italian engineering contractors Salini
Costruttori, also known as SALCOST, had
resumed work on the long stalled Bumbuna
Hydro-electric project in the northern
district of Tonkolili and indications
are that the project may be ready for
commissioning by the end of 2005.
(25th
March
2004)
Supreme
Court Justice Takes Oath
Erstwhile Appeal Court Justice Maitland
Tholla Thomson, who recently relinquished
his chairmanship of the Sierra Leone Football
Association (SLFA) executive, has been
formally sworn in as Justice of the Supreme
Court of Sierra Leone at a brief ceremony
held at the Hill Station Presidential
Lodge Tuesday 23rd March 2004.
(23rd
March
2004)
President
Kabbah Inspects Football Academy
His
Excellency The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad
Tejan Kabbah, on Monday 22nd March 2004
made an on-the-spot inspection of the
FIFA-funded Football Academy at Kingtom.
The President made the surprise visit
to the Academy in order to make his own
assessment of some of the work executed
by the Sierra Leone Football Association
(SLFA) so far
(23rd
March
2004)
Presidential
Helicopter Commences Flight-
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An
eleven-seater executive helicopter donated
to the Presidency of the Republic of Sierra
Leone by the Emir of Qatar has completed
its maiden test flight, beginning from
its Cockerill Military Headquarters base,
to around the Freetown Peninsula via the
Hill Station Presidential Lodge and back
to base, Monday 22 March 2004.
(22ndth
March
2004)
President
Kabbah Home As Accra Summit Ends
The
two-day Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) Summit on "The Challenges
of Regional Integration and the Implementation
of the New Partnership for African Development
(NEPAD) Initiative" ended in Accra,
Ghana Saturday with the World Bank President
James Wolfensohn and ECOWAS leaders arriving
at decisions to promote greater regional
cooperation and development
(22nd
March
2004)
President
Kabbah Resolves SLFA Impasse
The
long-running impasse among members of
the Sierra Leone Football Association
(SLFA), which has resulted in bad blood,
rancour and the total collapse of formal
footballing activities in the country,
ended today Tuesday 16th March 2004,
following President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's
fatherly intervention at the Hill Station
Lodge.
(16th
March
2004)
President
Kabbah Briefs World Bank Project Appraisal
Team
President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has told the visiting
World Bank Project Appraisal and Assessment
mission about the present status of the
country's roads infrastructure as well
as government's priority in further improving
the network of feeder and trunk roads
countrywide. The team, led by World Bank
Supervisor Mr. David Rudge, is in Freetown
to hold talks with government regarding
road development priorities for maximum
impact on national job creation and poverty
alleviation.
(16th
March
2004)
New
Dutch Envoy Presents Credentials
The newly accredited Ambassador of Her
Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands,
His Excellency Johannes Wilhemus Gunivortus
Jansing, has observed that over the last
few years Sierra Leone had "developed
from a country at war to a country on
its way to structural stability and peace".
Envoy Jansing made the statement on the
occasion of the formal presentation his
Letter of Credence as well as the Letter
of Recall of his predecessor at the Hill
Station Presidential Lodge Friday 12th
March 2004.
(12th
March
2004)
SPECI AL
COURT
FOR SIERRA
LEONE
OPENS
COURTHOUSE
The Special Court for Sierra Leone today
opened its ultra-modern Courthouse at
the Special Court's Complex at New England
Ville in Freetown. His Excellency the
President, Alhaji Dr Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,
declared the Courthouse open and unveiled
the plaque commemorating the solemn occasion.
(10th
March
2004)
President
Kabbah Joins International
Women's Day Celebrations In Makeni
President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
has joined thousands of Sierra Leonean
women in the Northern Regional Headquarter
town of Makeni Monday 8th March 2004 in
observance of the International Women's
Day as well as launching the report on
Building a Women's Law Reform Agenda.
The agenda, put together by the Ministry
of Social Welfare in collaboration with
the International Rescue Committee and
the National law Reform Commission, includes
the reform of local laws adversely affecting
women and girl-children in Sierra Leone
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(8th
March
2004)
Ghana's
47th Independence Anniversary Celebrated
..The
"Made-In-Ghana Goods Exhibition"
currently underway at the Atlantic Hall
of the National Stadium in Freetown was
part of a series of activities marking
Ghana's 47th Independence Anniversary
in Sierra Leone. President Kabbah who
gave the keynote address to mark Ghana's
Independence Anniversary, also performed
the cutting of the tape at the exhibition's
opening ceremony last Saturday, 6 March
2004. He made reference to the Economic
Community of West African State's (ECOWAS)
objective for an open sub-regional market
and the free movement of peoples of all
ECOWAS countries within the sub-region.
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(6th
March
2004)
President
Kabbah Opens 5-Star Kimbima Hotel
At Aberdeen
.
A
significant milestone in Sierra Leonean
entrepreneurship was achieved last Saturday,
following President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's
official opening of one of Freetown's
most prestigious and luxurious hotels,
the Kimbima Hotel, located at Aberdeen
on the Atlantic seashore in the western
part of Freetown.
(6th
March
2004)
President
Kabbah At Military Athletics Competition
..President
Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has commended
the highly positive demonstration of cordiality
between members of the Republic of Sierra
Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) and their civilian
counterparts.
Speaking shortly after he declared the
RSLAF's annual athletics competition open
at the National Stadium in Freetown on
Thursday, 4 March 2004, the Commander-in-Chief,
who was also grand chief patron at the
event, underlined the significance of
having both the military and the civilian
population co-existing amicably.
(4th
March
2004)
Archive
of February 2004 Reports
President Kabbah Celebrates 72nd Birthday
Anniversary in Kabala 
Residents
of Koinadugu District were manifestly thrilled
by President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's
arrival in Kabala over the weekend, Sunday
15th February, to celebrate his first birthday
ever outside Freetown since he became President
in 1996. Thousands of locals from every
part of the district, including Parliamentarians,
Paramount Chiefs, section chiefs, school
children, cultural dancers, women's groups,
members of the SLPP young generation, and
groups of banner waving well-wishers braved
the midday sun in their colourful array
of ashoebe, singing as the President touched
down at the Kabala Secondary School football
field.
(16th
February
2004)
Freetown
Big Market Re-opened
By President Kabbah
The one hundred and forty three-year old
Wallace Johnson Street Market, commonly
referred to as "Freetown Big Market",
was among the most notable historic edifices
in the Freetown capital that was gutted
by fire after rebel arsonists stormed the
city centre on Thursday January 7th 1999.
(10th February
2004)
President
Kabbah and VP Berewa End Kono and Kailahun
Provincial Tour
The
President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,
and Vice President Solomon Berewa returned
to Freetown Monday 9 February, concluding
a four-day extensive visit to Kono and Kailahun
Districts in Sierra Leone's eastern region.
Prominent among the important towns covered
by the visit were Yengema and Koidu in the
Kono District, Koindu, Kailahun Town, Pendembu
(the President's birthplace), Siama, Manowa,
Bunumbu, Segbwema, Baiwallah, Daru, Jojoima,
Bomaru, which experienced the first gunshots
that heralded the start of the civil conflict
on 23 March 1991, and the President's maternal
birthplace of Mobai.
(9th
February
2004)
Six
Children Benefit From Lady Patricia Kabbah
Scholarship Awards
Five
girl children and one boy child drawn from
various secondary schools across the country
have been awarded scholarships at the fifth
annual presentation ceremony of the Lady
Patricia Kabbah Trust Fund Awards for deserving
children. The Lady Patricia Kabbah Trust
Fund Award established in memory of the
late First Lady targets especially girl
children with the highest scores at the
National Primary School Examination (NPSE)
every year at regional level.
(3rd
February
2004)
Sierra
Leone's Disarmament, Demobilisation and
Reintegration Programme Ends
The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,
in his capacity as chairman of the National
Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation
and Reintegration (NCDDR), has declared
the official end of the Disarmament, Demobilisation
and Reintegration exercise, as well as the
closure of the NCDDR Executive Secretariat
to be effective from 31 March 2004 on completion
of final wrap up activities.
(3rd February
2004)
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