{"id":6638,"date":"2010-03-18T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2010-03-18T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:00:16","slug":"petition-on-the-election-of-swasal-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=6638","title":{"rendered":"Petition on the Election of SWASAL Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday March 8, 2010, within 48 hours deadline after the official results of the SWASAL Election was announced, the Electoral Commission of SLAJ received a petition from Sorie Ibrahim Sesay, a fully registered SWASAL member, against the election of the following officials:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Musa Sesay \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Vice President<\/li>\n<li>Sahr Morris Junior &#8211; Asst. Secretary General<\/li>\n<li>Bernard Turay \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Financial Secretary<\/li>\n<li>Alhaji Kelfala Tarawallie \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Organising Secretary<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The grounds of the petition are found in Article 11 (2) and 11(3) of the Revised SWASAL Constitution which state thus:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">11(2) Any member of the national executive who is appointed to serve in any sporting association must resign his\/her position in SWASAL to avoid conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">11(3) SWASAL members holding executive positions in any sporting association shall not be eligible to contest for any position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petitioner claims that the above named persons are currently holding positions in other sporting bodies and hence not qualified to contest for any SWASAL executive position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Commission, after consultation with the SLAJ Executive has critically examined the matter and would like to meet with the membership of SWASAL to communicate its decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of this, all SWASAL members including the elected officials are invited to a meeting on Monday, March 22, 2010 at the SLAJ headquarters at 12 noon.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Signed: Ransford S.C.Wright, Chief Electoral Commission<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SLAJ Electoral Commission, Freetown<\/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>On Monday March 8, 2010, within 48 hours deadline after the official results of the SWASAL Election was announced, the Electoral Commission of SLAJ received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[708,2499],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-slaj","tag-swasal-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","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=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/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=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}