“Sierra Leone should be a favoured destination for Dutch Investors”… Ambassador Ibrahim Sorie

At the end of a three-day tour to three cities in Holland dubbed, ‘Ambassador’s tour to promote Sierra Leone’s Trade and Investment Opportunities’, Ambassador Ibrahim Sorie has assured Dutch Investors that his country should be a favoured destination for them because of the government’s friendly policies for investors. (Photo: Ambassador Sorie tours the Attero Waste Management facilities in Tilburg)

The Sierra Leone government, Ambassador Sorie revealed, has created the enabling environment to attract any serious investor ranging from tax holiday, duty-free concessions for some capital investments, one-stop shop for registration of business, Fast-Track Commercial Court to expedite settlements of commercial disputes and many other facilities.

“Sierra Leone has very attractive incentives for investors that can match any other country in the sub-region”, the Ambassador reieterated.

The three-day Trade and Investment Promotion tour which took Ambassador Sorie and entourage to three major cities in Holland – Wageningen, Tilburg and Amsterdam was organised by the Sierra Leone Central Union (SLCU), the umbrella organisation of Sierra Leoneans in Holland, to promote economic growth that will accelerate the implementation of the Agenda for Prosperity and at the same time help put Sierra Leone investment opportunities on a networking platform in Holland.

About 15 (Fifteen) companies ranging from Circular Economy (Zero waste tolerance), Sustainable Agriculture and Agri-business, Drink Water supply and Sanitation, Sustainable Energy, Port Development and Logistics and ICT and Telecommunications have expressed interest to invest in Sierra Leone.

The first day of the tour (26^th-28^th February) was at the Wageningen University where Ambassador and delegation took a conducted tour of the world-renowned Agricultural research University and later paid another visit at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).

In the city of Tilburg, the Embassy team visited the King Willem 11school which has a twinning relationship with the SLMB primary school at Makonkarie village in the Yonibana chiefdom, Tonkolili district. The team further toured De Rooi Pannen Vocational Institute where students are trained to become professional entrepreneurs whilst the Ambassador further held fruitful bilateral discussions with the Mayor of the Tilburg city, Peter George Antonius Noordanus, briefing him on the expected visit to Holland in April of His Excellency, President Ernest Bai Koroma.

The team also toured the Attero Waste Management Company which prides itself as the largest company in Holland handling wastes from households and the Waterschap De Dommels Company Treatment Centre which specialises in the collection and treatment of rain and sewage water.

The last lap of the tour was at the Amsterdam Port, the world’s fourth largest Port after Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg Ports respectively, where the Ambassador was able to address investors, some of who are already operating businesses in Sierra Leone and served as living testimonies on the peaceful and friendly atmosphere existing in Sierra Leone for investors. The Embassy delegation toured the Warehouses of the Connecting World Trade ( CTW ),  buyers of world Cocoa and coffee.

At the end of the tour, praises were heaped on the executive of the Sierra Leone Central Union for organising such a remarkable and spectacular programme. Ambassador Ibrahim Sorie implored on the SLCU executive, headed by Abubakarr Bangura, to export their ideas to other Sierra Leone Diaspora Organisations to help attract more credible investors to Sierra Leone.

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