The Eastern Regional Coordinator of the Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD) Patrick Adu who has just returned from Malawi has told the press in Kenema city that civil society participation in elections monitoring has been acclaimed by the world over.
Patrick Adu told the press that his visit to Malawi was to share his domestic elections monitoring experiences with both the election office and the civil society in that country.
Mr. Adu expressed delight over the relationship between the civil society and the government in Malawi whom he said looks on one another as partners in development and not as enemies to one another.
While comparing the high standard of civil society role in Sierra Leone to those counterparts in some Africa countries, the Regional chairman of the Civil Society Movement (CSM) in Sierra Leone Augustine Sannoh rated their role as high characterized by the pro-active intervention into issues of community or national concerns. Augustine Sannoh catalogued the role civil society in Sierra Leone has played in maintaining peace in the country among which is the maintenance of the proclamation made by the government supporting the Gola Forest activities in Sierra Leone.
Indeed sources from some quarters in the region suggested that the development package provided by the Gola forest programme for the seven Gola Forest family chiefdoms are truly misdirected in some chiefdoms. Sannoh registered that on the high, the Civil Society movement in Sierra Leone support the government in ensuring that the forest is being reserved and conserved instead of being mined.
In a phone in programme on Eastern Radio in Kenema city, Gola Forest protected Area Manager John Moriba revealed that his organization has provided funds to communities that are being selected by chiefdom elders. He said a lot of funds have been provided and a lot more will be provided to those whose project proposal is approved.
However some accusing fingers were pointed against some senior chiefdom authorities in Tunkia chiefdom in the Kenema district to have influenced the crises that is blowing in the chiefdom supporting the Bagra hill mining instead of the Gola forest programme.
Further disclosure of alleged gun men from neighbouring countries was made during the phone in programme there by creating further concerns over security issues in that chiefdom sharing borders with Liberia.
Patrick Adu told the press that his visit to Malawi was to share his domestic elections monitoring experiences with both the election office and the civil society in that country.
Mr. Adu expressed delight over the relationship between the civil society and the government in Malawi whom he said looks on one another as partners in development and not as enemies to one another.
While comparing the high standard of civil society role in Sierra Leone to those counterparts in some Africa countries, the Regional chairman of the Civil Society Movement (CSM) in Sierra Leone Augustine Sannoh rated their role as high characterized by the pro-active intervention into issues of community or national concerns. Augustine Sannoh catalogued the role civil society in Sierra Leone has played in maintaining peace in the country among which is the maintenance of the proclamation made by the government supporting the Gola Forest activities in Sierra Leone.
Indeed sources from some quarters in the region suggested that the development package provided by the Gola forest programme for the seven Gola Forest family chiefdoms are truly misdirected in some chiefdoms. Sannoh registered that on the high, the Civil Society movement in Sierra Leone support the government in ensuring that the forest is being reserved and conserved instead of being mined.
In a phone in programme on Eastern Radio in Kenema city, Gola Forest protected Area Manager John Moriba revealed that his organization has provided funds to communities that are being selected by chiefdom elders. He said a lot of funds have been provided and a lot more will be provided to those whose project proposal is approved.
However some accusing fingers were pointed against some senior chiefdom authorities in Tunkia chiefdom in the Kenema district to have influenced the crises that is blowing in the chiefdom supporting the Bagra hill mining instead of the Gola forest programme.
Further disclosure of alleged gun men from neighbouring countries was made during the phone in programme there by creating further concerns over security issues in that chiefdom sharing borders with Liberia.