{"id":16811,"date":"2010-11-26T20:17:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=16811"},"modified":"2010-11-26T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:17:25","slug":"slsa-bollore-takes-over-slpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=16811","title":{"rendered":"SLSA &#8211; Bollore Takes Over SLPA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was all joy in mouths of concerned Sierra Leoneans when the presentation of result on the privatization of Sierra Leone Port Authority was unveiled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sierra Leone Shipping Agency (SLSA), whose parent body is Bollore Group of Companies, was announced winner for the contract to Sierra Leone\u2019s seaport runs by a private company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It must be noted that the SLSA and a company owned by a Philippine successful had their names short listed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two were later asked to submit a financial and other projection that explains how they intend to run the seaport should any win the contract.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SLSA-Bollore bidded USD 64 M while its opponent USD 9M.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was later rumoured that officials of the national commission for privatization (NCP) attempted receiving a bribe from the owner of the company that bidded the smallest amount.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, the press was left without alternative, but shoot out clandestine activities of officials designated to such a responsibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Spectator press was at fore exposing corrupt intentions of public officials of government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, the cry of Sierra Leoneans was answered to; and SLSA-Bollore which has records for its operations at respective seaports in Africa, Europe and America gets it all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credible information reaching this press states how SLSA-Bollore has set aside millions of US dollars for the upgrading and putting to standards, Sierra Leone\u2019s only seaport.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was all joy in mouths of concerned Sierra Leoneans when the presentation of result on the privatization of Sierra Leone Port Authority was unveiled. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[6078,5492,6079,720,6080,6081,6082],"class_list":["post-16811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-bollore","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-sierra-leone-port","tag-sierra-leone-port-authority","tag-sierra-leone-shipping","tag-sierra-leone-shipping-agency","tag-slsa-bollore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16811","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16811\/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=16811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}