{"id":50904,"date":"2012-12-04T01:16:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=50904"},"modified":"2012-12-04T01:16:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:16:31","slug":"slpp-and-apc-joint-press-statement-on-the-way-forward-for-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=50904","title":{"rendered":"SLPP and APC joint press statement on the way forward for Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Freetown Monday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> December 2012: <\/strong>The Leadership of the SLPP met at State House today to discuss issues of national interest including the conduct of future elections.\u00a0<em> (Photo: l-r SLPP Brig Julius Maada Bio and HE Ernest Bai Koroma in an embrace at State House)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting which was chaired by President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, also had in attendance the flagbearer of the SLPP Brig Julius Maada Bio, his running mate Dr Kadi Sesay, the Chairman and Leader Mr John Oponjo Benjamin and the National Secretary-General, Mr Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting was facilitated by the \u201cBody of Christ\u201d, a committee of Christian religious leaders led by Reverend D.M. Speck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were frank discussions in which Brigadier Julius Maada Bio reiterated his commitment to peace and security in the only country he knows and can call home, Sierra Leone. \u00a0Brigadier Bio further noted that \u201cSierra Leone can only develop when we have effective lines of communications between the leadership of the two parties\u201d.\u00a0 He concluded that the position of President Koroma as President of Sierra Leone is not in contention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Koroma on his part, emphasized that \u201cwe should continue to have dialogue of this nature in the interest of peace and the promotion of democracy\u201d, as he reiterated the need to put in place a mechanism that will considerably reduce the influence of regionalism and tribalism in the nation\u2019s body politic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His Excellency directed that further meetings be held between the two parties with a view to concluding the several issues raised in the course of the meeting.<\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Signed : Victor Bockarie Foh<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">National Secretary General\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">APC<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Signed: Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">National Secretary General<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">SLPP<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freetown Monday 3rd December 2012: The Leadership of the SLPP met at State House today to discuss issues of national interest including the conduct of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[699,673,1221,1],"tags":[14283,14284,1002,3069],"class_list":["post-50904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-national-news","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized","tag-apc-and-slpp-meeting","tag-apc-slpp","tag-ernest-bai-koroma","tag-julius-maada-bio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50904","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=50904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}