President
of the Sierra Leone Students’ Union in the People’s Republic of China has
called on his colleagues to do all they could and return home “after completing
our respective studies…and contribute in transforming Sierra Leone…for there is
no other place like home.”
Saidu Mohamed Sesay, a Masters
Student in Public Administration at Wuhan University of Geosciences, spoke on
29th April in
Wuhan City at an event hosted by the students’ body in commemoration of Sierra
Leone’s 55th independence anniversary.
Sesay
quoted the late Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader from 1978 until his retirement in
1989, who once said, “When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return
home, you will see how China will transform itself.”
According to Sesay, Sierra
Leone’s future is in their hands and their “collective role or effort in
rebranding its image as students is of immense importance”, entreating all to
be united and steadfast “ for the growth of the country irrespective of their
different political ideologies, regional or tribal backgrounds.
“There is hope for the future of
our country”, he said, and that hope, he disclosed “is bestowed in us as future
leaders. And I am confident that in subsequent years, we as Sierra Leoneans
will celebrate more than ever, numerous developmental successes.”
Since independence, Sesay said,
the country has been encountering several challenges. Despite such challenges,
Sierra Leone has in recent “years been described as one of the fastest growing
economies.”
The country’s institutional and
infrastructural developments including human resource capacity especially in
the form of women empowerment, he said, are just few of the lot Sierra Leone
can be boastful of achieving in recent past years.
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