The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on
Thursday 7th April 2016, after a protracted debate ratified Nine Presidential
Nominees to serve in various high offices of State.
Following the debate,
the recommendations contained in the Fourth Report of the Committee on
Appointments and the Public Service was unanimously adopted by the House and
approved the following through a collection of voices:
Ady Macauley, Mohamed Alieu Jalloh,
Mohamed Bangura, Elizabeth Mans, Zuliatu M. Cooper, Akmad Femi Mansaray, James
Morlai Kamara, Conilious Devo and Adrian B. Fofanah.
There have been mixed
reactions recently over the appointment of the Presidential nominee for the
post of Minister of Information of Communications, Mohamed Bangura.
Bangura was
conspicuously absent on Tuesday despite he was expected to be among list of
first batch of interviewees to be approved.
At his vetting,
Mohamed Bangura was demoralized over his educational qualification, as the
citation in his degree was incorrect and he himself was unable to defend his
CV.
Prior to his
interview there where protests as to the point that he contested an elections
for presidency and thus his appointment was a violation but this was cleared as
it was clarified in Parliament that Mohamed Bangura did not only decline to
contest the election but the petition against him claiming that he contested a ‘presidential general election’ where misleading according to the Committee on
Appointments and the Public Service on the grounds that the law bars people
that have contested general elections unlike presidential election.
However, Mohamed
Bangura was yesterday as Minister of Information and Communication approved even
though some parliament members was not satisfied with his Ministerial
appointment.
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