Compromising raw data for personal gains
Apart from the selfish acquisition of luxurious mansions, coupled with fleets of vehicle, this press has come to the realization that Statistics Sierra Leone is on the brink of collapse and the real figures that are direly wanted for national progress and prosperity are being compromised at the sake of the government and the people of this country.
Pity an extremely viable institution created by an Act of Parliament in 2002 to collect, collate and analyze reliable data has tarried for two years without a board of directors.
The rhetoric is so unprecedented and the faith of a whole nation is heaped like a sinful burden on just one man who bears the supervisory role which should be done by distinguished personalities in the board.
The past two ungodly years of Mohamed King Koroma as Statistician General and his warped management team has become insipidious and nobody seems to care. Inefficiency and graft has eaten deep into the social and technical fabric of SSL thus plummeting our homeland backward on every scale of human rating.
Woefully, the second Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Development Foday Bala Mansaray, an aged civil servant, selfishly celebrates his supervisory role for undoubtedly obvious reasons.
The SG was quoted to have frowned at the Minister even when he influenced the appointment of three directors ignoring due recruitment process. Evidently his demands supersede his supervisory role and there is no respect for chain of command, policies, rules and regulations.
The forgoing has now led to the amassing of wealth at the peril of gullible citizenry. Imagine SG King-Koroma recently celebrated the opening of two mansions which were purposely constructed concurrently, one for himself at Melon Street in Wellington and the other for a concubine Adama who also works at SSL.
The SG is also erecting two guest houses at Bolima in Waterloo and at Kambia Road Port Loko respectively.
Administrative anomalies at SSL in the past two years need to be checkmated and a declaration of asset of top management cadre of SSL should take center stage for a testimony of this commentary.
We therefore request the Anti Corruption Commission to verify assets of these mongrels as against their official emolument.
We also implore the erudite Minister of Finance, Dr Kaifala Marrah, who has built a reputation for himself over the years to breathe new life into at the recommendations of Dr Pepper who was recruited by DFID to undertake a review of that institution with a view to restructuring SSL less we continue to experience a downward trend even before the soon to commence Housing and Population Census; otherwise Sierra Leone will continue to enjoy a constant position at the tail bottom of the Human Development Index. Lonta…!
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