{"id":22254,"date":"2011-04-08T12:54:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=22254"},"modified":"2011-04-08T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:54:56","slug":"immigration-generates-le1-6-billion-in-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=22254","title":{"rendered":"Immigration generates Le1.6 billion in two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a well attended press conference held Wednesday 7<sup>th<\/sup> at the headquarter office of the Immigration Department, the Human Resource and Administrative Manager, Alusine Jaoque, disclosed how the Immigration Department generated Le 1.6 billion between January and February respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said also that the department is mapping out strategic plans aimed at improving immigration facilities to conform to international immigration standards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He furthered that for western area alone, the Immigration department in 2010 fiscal year generated Le4.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He highlighted major activities undertaken by the department. These included the training of border patrol immigration officers which lasted for two months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his contribution, the Acting Chief Immigration Officer, Ansumana Marrah said the press conference was not intended to respond to a recent radio programme aired at the Citizen Radio involving one of their personnel, but to highlight major developments initiated under the dispensation of the new Immigration Chief Kholifa Koroma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He cited some key challenges facing his department which he described as purely internal, noting that some staff members had evil intentions to undermine the operations of the department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Acting Chief Immigration Officer took time to explain some of their achievements which have given the department a facelift over the years; mentioning the introduction of internet and website facilities for the department.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Mary I. Kamara<\/em><\/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>At a well attended press conference held Wednesday 7th at the headquarter office of the Immigration Department, the Human Resource and Administrative Manager, Alusine Jaoque, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[7849,1014,5492],"class_list":["post-22254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-immigration-department","tag-sierra-leone-government","tag-sierra-leone-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/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=22254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}