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NGC Concludes Symposium…As Party Sets Pace For Plans Ahead. By: Musa Kamara On the 12th of April, 2024, the National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party started a two-day long and intensive symposium that ended on Saturday, 13th April, 2024 at the Robert Hall, Robert Street, Freetown, on the theme, “NGC Finding the Path to True Democracy in Sierra Leone.” The Symposium was organized by a cross-section of committed party members called the ‘Progressives’ in the NGC.    The Symposium saw the gathering of over 500 party members, including constituency, districts, region and national executive members of the party as well as the party’s enthusiastic and committed grassroots members who converged at the Robert Hall to discuss the challenges faced by the party, and find sustainable pathways that will better position the party for the 2028 election and beyond. Madam Yasmin Jusu Sheriff, a renowned lawyer and activist, gave the Keynote address on the topic “NGC in 2024: Regaining Control of t...

Over corrupt practices engaged by the Clerk of Sierra Leone Parliament, Paran Tarawally by using his office to unjustly employ his wife as Human Resource Officer of Parliament, the National Grand Coalition Party has in a release called out the Speaker of Parliament Dr. Abass Bundu accusing him of aiding and abetting corrupt practices in the well of Parliament. See full statement from the NGC below.  * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: * NGC ACCUSES DR. ABASS BUNDU, SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT, AIDING AND ABETTING CORRUPTION IN PARLIAMENT * Freetown, 14th January 2024 – * The National Grand Coalition (NGC) is shocked and deeply concerned by the apparent lack of action by Dr Abass Bundu, the Speaker of Parliament, in response to the serious allegations of corruption and malpractice within the Sierra Leone Parliament. Specifically, the NGC accuses the Speaker of aiding and abetting corruption by failing to take decisive disciplinary action against Paran Tarawally, the Clerk of Parliament, charged ...

  Dear Founding members of NGC, in addition to the ongoing local efforts at reconciliation,  I have been engaged by the NGC-NA and UK&I executives and elders councils. I have  assured them that we will move forward along the trajectory set by the Convention and NEC meeting unabated. We extend our gratitude to our Deputy Chairman and Leader, our Secretary General, the Youth Wing and Women's Wing, and all those who have come forward to clarify issues.  Fake news and negative propaganda will not deter us from our core values and our belief that Sierra Leone needs a coalition of progressives across party lines. Our common enemies are still poverty, ignorance and corruption, rather than people in other political parties.  Yesterday, the National Officers showed me their work program with preset dates for several activities and meetings. Let's support them robustly. We will soon go nationwide, and to every district, with our message of Compassionate Inclusive Gove...

Elections Observers Network (EON-SL) Present final findings on the just concluded National Delegates Conference and Convention of the NGC Party. The ELECTIONS OBSERVER NETWORK (EON–SL), an independent organised has submitted its report on the NGC National Delegates Conference held on 13 and 14 December 2022, which paves the way for NGC to contest the Multi-Tier Elections in 2023. NGC is the only opposition party to have concluded all required Lower-Level Elections and National Delegates Conference, which provides voters with an alternative to the poor governance of the Bio-led SLPP government.  The Conference gave the National Executive Committee, the mandate to pursue strategic alliances with other political parties, which is consistent with NGC's values and in the interest of the people of Sierra Leone.  EON's report is a vindication that the National Delegates Conference, was free and fair to all who participated in the process.  Here is the full text of their report.?...

  Alan Luke, NGC Elected National Diaspora Co-ordinator reminisces on the resistance NGC Chairman and Leader put up in order to ensure political parties participate in local government elections . By: Alan Luke . Dennis Bright leading our resistance to PAOPA SLPP plans to prevent political parties from participating in local government elections. Make no mistake, the Bio-led government will leave no stone unturned to rig and suppress votes. We must be determined now, as he was two years ago to secure a change of governance which is NGC led or with NGC playing a prominent role, and consistent with our values to put Sa Lone Fos. Having concluded our Lower-Level Elections, NGC now has about 10,000 executives in 446 Wards, 132 Constituencies, 16 Districts and 5 Regions in Sierra Leone. NGC is the only opposition party to have  completed our National Delegates Conference. This means that come the 2023 Multi-Tier Elections, and contrary to what APC and SLPP pundits and vuv...

Elections Observers Network Exposes Maada Kpulun’s Lies. Mr Joseph Maada Kpulun claim that NGC is violent, undemocratic and unfit for purpose, after losing the race for the position of National Chairman and Leader of the third largest political force in Sierra Leone’s politics is a classic example of sour grapes. It is a Trumpian claim and it exposes Mr Kpulun’s unwillingness to concede to the victor, Dr Dennis Bright. Before addressing Mr Kpulun’s ridiculous assertions, Sierra Leoneans need to understand how seismic the NGC’s completion of its National Delegates Conference is, in other to appreciate that Mr Kpulun, is merely a puppet on a string, pulled by his puppeteer with whom he shares the same middle name – Maada. Other than the SLPP Paopa led government, NGC is the only party that has managed to navigate all the obstacles put in the path of the opposition parties ahead of the 2023 elections. In contrast to the 2018 elections, when 13 political parties contested the elections, in...

  Is Global Times now sweeping the issue under the carpet, as it maintained in February 2018? The National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party seems to have drawn the ire of local media after it successfully completed its Lower-Level Elections and National Delegates Conference, being the only opposition party to do.  Both the public service broadcaster, SLBC and the SLPP newspaper, Global Times have used their platforms to air the grievances and baseless allegations of the defeated candidate for the position of National Chairman and Leader, Mr Joseph Maada Kpulun, without giving the party the opportunity to challenge him, when the allegations were aired.  This would not come as a surprise to Sierra Leoneans, as both SLBC and the SLPP leaning Global Times are beholden to whims of the current government.     In the exclusive interview that Global Times offered Mr Kpulun, the medium failed to ask Mr Kpulun about the rape allegations against him, which the Global Times...

Shambolic SLBC seeks to discredit NGC National Delegates Conference by Collaborating With the Defeated Joseph Maada Kpulun The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) is the country’s public service broadcaster, and it is obliged to give voice to each and every Sierra Leonean, to political parties, and interest group. As a sign of the SLBC's deplorable editorial standards and poor management, the SLBC today invited the disgruntled and defeated candidate for the position of National Chairman and Leader of the NGC, Mr Joseph Maada Kpulun, to use the Morning Coffee programme to air his grievances and to make unfounded allegations about the conduct of the party's National Delegates Conference. This is yet another indicator of how badly public institutions in our country which exists to foster a healthy democracy, consistently fail to put Sa Lone Fos.  The Public should be made aware that the SLBC did not offer the NGC National Leadership an opportunity to challenge Mr Kpulun’s...

AS DIALOGUE ON THE USE OF THE PR SYSTEM CONTINUE....CSOs PRAISE HON. YUMKELLA By: Musa Kamara Tuesday, November 1st 2022, Committee Room 1, Parliament Building. The Parliamentary Select Committee on Political and Public Affairs has on Tuesday 1st November in Committee Room 1, Parliament Building held an Open Dialogue on the Proportional Representation System in the presence of Civil Socity Organizations, former and current Members of Parliament, the Ministry of Political and Public Affairs, Political Party Leaders and other stakeholders.  In his welcome address to the various representatives, the Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella stated that the meeting was geared towards having a national dialogue and to get the different shades of opinions on the proposed use of the PR System for the 2023 Multi-tier elections. "We ensured we have most of the Civil Society activists here today because we want them to thoroughly discuss and critically ask questions to the rele...

NGC Chairman and Leader Toured the North and North-West Regions...Gives Reasons Why He Must Be Elected to Continue As National Chairman and Leader of the NGC Party. By Musa Kamara The National Chairman and Leader of the National Grand Coalition Party, Dr. Dennis Bright has concluded his North and North-West Regional tour that commenced on Tuesday, 18th October 2022.  According to Dr. Bright, the targeted audience for his tour are the districts and constituencies executive members who would constitute the delegates representing their membership. Engaging the Falaba and Koinadugu districts and constituencies executive members, Dr. Bright expressed his appreciation and congratulated the twin districts for successfully conducting their lower-level elections and establishing structures from wards to constituencies, despite the numerous challenges and hiccups. He also commended Koindaugu who have also completed their district election.  Speaking to delegates, Dr. Bright said, “My me...

  NGC North America YG Refutes Rumors of KKY Going Back to The SLPP. Mustapha Turay, NGC North America Regional Young Generation Leader  By Musa Kamara The North America Regional Young Generation Leader, Mr. Mustapha Turay AKA "THE POLITICIAN"  has in an exclusive interview with the Salon Fos Newspaper vehemently and out rightly refutes claims and rumors of Hon. KKY going back to the SLPP. The Regional YG said, “All the news about Hon. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has gone back or is going back to the SLPP is not true, it is fake, baseless and lacks all merits. Hon. Yumkella is NGC, our Parliamentary Leader and will remain to be an NGC member. “It is now clear that the SLPP and their social media supporters have engaged in a political subterfuge to damage the image of our Leader by producing old videos and photos of KAY's days at the SLPP that have no merit in our current politicaldispensations. And we are not going to accept that, because we know Hon. Yumkella as a man of his ...

2023 Election on the Horizon… SLPP Confirms Failure. “SLPP Has Failingly Failed With Distinction” By: Mr. Mark As the 2023 elections hover on Sierra Leoneans, many citizens have blast the SLPP Administration as one that has “failingly failed woefully with distinction” due to the increasing hardship Sierra Leoneans have been facing since they took up office in 2018. And recently, the SLPP has come out clean to confirm what the people have been saying all along about their failures.  It will be an understatement to say our economic situation is in shamble leading to Sierra Leoneans living in an impoverished conditions. It is glaringly clear to all and sundry that, the Bionomics has not been working, all their economic policies to cushion hardship on Sierra Leoneans have been futile, due to many known and clear reasons. The untold sufferings of Sierra Leoneans caused by the poor economic policies and blatant bloating of the wage bill by the Bio administration has taken toll on citizen...

Energy is at the core of the 21st century transformation and clean cooking connects it all,’ - Hon. Yumkella reminds governments in Accra. Hon. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella  ACCRA, GHANA, October 11, 2022 Representatives of government, private sector and civil society are gathered in Accra, Ghana for the 2022 Clean Cooking Forum. The biennial event is hosted by the Clean Cooking Alliance in partnership with the Government of Ghana 🇬🇭. Hon. Dr. Kandeh Yumkella was a special guest of the global Clean Cooking Alliance. In remarks he delivered in the opening plenary, he underscored the importance of clean cooking in achieving climate and development goals.  “Clean Cooking” he said “is still treated like an orphan issue.” He called on governments to give it the same attention as other energy  programs like access to electricity noting that governments can work with the private sector to make things happen.  In a high-level session he moderated titled: Decade for Delivery, Go...