{"id":51936,"date":"2013-01-17T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=51936"},"modified":"2013-01-17T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T02:30:04","slug":"acc-signs-contract-agreement-for-the-construction-of-hq-at-tower-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=51936","title":{"rendered":"ACC signs Contract Agreement for the Construction of HQ at Tower Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara\u00a0 and the Chairman of the Board of MODCON Construction Company Limited, Bassan Ghodssoub\u00a0\u00a0 on Tuesday 15<sup>th<\/sup> January 2013 signed a\u00a0 contract agreement\u00a0 for the construction of the Commission\u2019s headquarter\u00a0 which is to be situated at Tower Hill in Freetown.\u00a0 The signing ceremony took place at the Commission\u2019s Conference room at Gloucester Street in Freetown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ACC Commissioner praised government\u2019s commitment in ensuring that the Commission has its own edifice it will operate from.\u00a0 He assured the contractors that resources are available for the project, as the government has presently granted the sum of three billion leones (Le 3,000,000,000) to commence the project and further commitment of funds for the completion of the project from President Ernest Bai Koroma has been assured.\u00a0 Mr. Kamara stated that the Commission would want to see a modern structure at Tower Hill, epitomizing integrity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Commissioner Kamara praised his management team for their relentless effort and support in soliciting funds for the construction of the headquarter at Tower Hill. The structure Mr. Kamara added would symbolize the fight against corruption in Sierra Leone. He spoke about the over occupancy of the present ACC structure at Gloucester street which consistently limits the work of the Commission.\u00a0\u00a0 He noted that the Commission is expanding to meet the government\u2019s decentralization plan and the sophistication of the present state of governance, which he said would attract more work for the ACC involving more staff and a bigger space to operate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He noted that the effective start date for the construction of the ACC building would be on the 7<sup>TH<\/sup> of February 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chairman of the Board of MODCON Mr. Ghodssoub assured the Commission that they are doing all in their powers to see that the construction of the ACC head quarter finishes within the specified time frame and work will be done to satisfy their client.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The consultants supervising the works Ron Greene and Jenner Forde from IDEAS Limited witnessed the signing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It should be recalled that this is not the first time that the ACC has embarked on construction of office building to house its operation, through DFID constructed, it has supported offices buildings in Kenema and Makeni respectively. Plans are underway for an office building in Bo.<\/p>\n<p><em>ACC<\/em><\/p>\n<p><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>The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara\u00a0 and the Chairman of the Board of MODCON Construction Company Limited, Bassan Ghodssoub\u00a0\u00a0 on Tuesday 15th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":51937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,673],"tags":[948],"class_list":["post-51936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national-news","tag-anti-corruption-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51936","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}