APRM ensures good governance

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The Chairman of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Dr. Osman Gbla has said that APRM is an instrument geared towards ensuring good governance, transparency and accountability. Dr Gbla made this statement during a meeting with the Press at the British Council Auditorium on the pending visit of the APRM mission to Sierra Leone to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the President and to also meet with relevant stakeholders in society. He also explained that the Government of Sierra Leone had paid their (USD$100,000) One hundred thousand United States dollars subscription to the APRM and that a Secretariat has also been established along Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown. Dr. Gbla noted that several efforts have been put in place to organize committees at District level to popularize the APRM process by encouraging the ordinary people to embrace the APRM and to also actively participate in the process. The APRM Programme Manager Mohamed S. Jalloh highlighted some of the activities the APRM mission will be undertaking while in the country from the 30th August to the 2nd of September 2010. He further explained that the mission will meet with top government officials, civil society organizations and International Organizations adding that the team will also visit Bo Town to get first hand information about other parts of the country. Mohamed S Jalloh the programme Manager of APRM called on relevant stakeholders to help popularize the APRM and to also make available relevant information about good governance, transparency and accountability and that the public should also visit the Secretariat for further information. By Saidu Bah

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