=A SHORT COMMENTARY= President Koroma: Father of Sierra Leone’s Modern Democracy By Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Information Attaché, Saudi Arabia A remarkable development took place in Sierra Leone on Tuesday 30th July, 2013 when His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, formally launched a Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) in fulfillment of his commitment during the last opening of Parliament. In his key note address at the launch of the CRC hosted at the Miatta Conference Centre, Brookfields, Freetown, the President recounted the history of Sierra Leone’s constitutional development, noting that, the country has the deepest tradition of written constitutionalism in West Africa – from Granville Sharpe in the 19th Century, the Blackhall Constitution of 1863, the Slater Constitution of 1924, the Stevenson Constitution of the 1950s to the current 1991 National Constitution. President Koroma, who proved on that day to be well grounded in Sierra Leone’s political history, spoke in exultation of our values and aspirations as Sierra Leoneans and suggested that, let tolerance be expected and deepened in the new constitution. He appealed for a ‘people’s constitution’ that will be easy to understand since we are a friendly people. “It must reflect the fundamental value of the Realm of the Free,” the Chief Executive stressed. He warned against acrimony, imposition and posit.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:40:27 +0000
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