{"id":11943,"date":"2009-11-20T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2009-11-20T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:15:43","slug":"apc-chairman-says-conference-success-goes-beyond-political-affiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=11943","title":{"rendered":"APC Chairman says Conference Success goes beyond political affiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Chairman of the All People&rsquo;s Congress North America Branch has said what happened at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London where Sierra Leone organized the Trade and Investment conference, goes beyond political affiliation. <em>(Photo: Tony Blair was happy with the turn out as he was mobbed after his speech)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">Leslie Allen said he was at the conference not as a politician but as a Sierra Leonean who is desperate to see Sierra Leone move on &#8211; and as a branch, <em>&ldquo;we want to endorse President Koroma&rsquo;s vision for change in Sierra Leone.&rdquo;<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said the outcome of the conference was a manifestation of the President&rsquo;s <strong><em>Agenda for Change<\/em><\/strong> and a stepping stone for all Sierra Leoneans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">He said the vision of the President has been exhibited and that Sierra Leoneans should now look forward to its implementation.<\/div>\n<p>He called on investors to go into Sierra Leone and invest adding: &ldquo;you have to be with us and help implement the changes we are looking forward to &ndash; we want your physical presence in Sierra Leone to see for yourself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3190\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Leslie-Allen-and-Nanette-Thomas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3190\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3190\" title=\"Leslie Allen and Nanette Thomas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Leslie-Allen-and-Nanette-Thomas-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Allen and Nanette Thomas\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leslie Allen and Nanette Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Leslie also called on every well-meaning Sierra Leonean with credible investors to encourage them to go to Sierra Leone and invest so that the people of that country will benefit.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>President APC Texas Chapter Nanette Thomas, expressed her excitement over the success of the conference adding that the President has succeeded in putting Sierra Leone on the world map.<\/p>\n<p>She said the fact that the country has Tony Blair and Prince Charles to endorse and support the government&rsquo;s vision is a major success for the government of President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sorie Sudan Sesay, Information Attach\u00c3\u00a9, Sierra Leone High Commission, UK\/NI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Chairman of the All People&rsquo;s Congress North America Branch has said what happened at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London where Sierra Leone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221,1],"tags":[1588,1679,1412,1101,1022],"class_list":["post-11943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized","tag-investing-in-sierra-leone","tag-leslie-allen","tag-london-conference","tag-nanette-thomas","tag-tony-blair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}