34.7 C
Sierra Leone
Thursday, March 28, 2024

President Koroma Calls for Value Addition in Local Products

HomeAYV NewsPresident Koroma Calls for Value Addition in Local Products

President Koroma Calls for Value Addition in Local Products

Date:

Related stories

Parliament ratifies Defence Agreements

The Parliament of Sierra Leone has debated and ratified...

Bishop Tamba Charles puzzled by low turnout for Holy Week activities

Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles of the Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown...

Pujehun District Entertainment Association Awards: Hon. Zombo: ‘Most Influential, Developmental Persons

The Pujehun District Entertainment Association, (PuDEA) has awarded Hon....

EVP hosts successful 2nd Championship Debate Competition in Sierra Leone

In celebration of its 14th anniversary, the ECOWAS Volunteer...

APC Party speaks on arrest of Dj Boxx in Guinea

The All People's Congress (APC) Party has issued a...

For the Lebanese community “I believe we have a long standing business relationship” and they should be informed of what is happening in the country in terms of business as “we have continued to make new legislation”, one with the Local Content Policy and this new legislation, the president believes “there has to be some shift in terms of our private sector engagement.”
President Koroma disclosed “we have to make concrete effort to move away from the buying and selling aspect of business transactions that a good number of our people are involved in, to some kind of value addition processes that will lay the basis for manufacturing and industrialisation.”
Stating that with a shift “it is going to be the root to sustainable economic development, we cannot continue to just buy and sell. We have to try and add value to what we sell, we must work on improving our agricultural process – adding value to them, and in the mineral sector, we must now work towards ensuring that our diamonds that are exported are cut and polished in the country, it will not only create jobs, it will have value to the exporter, we have to ensure that our iron ore, rutile and others go through the initial processes.”
He said “all of these issues are what I will seize the moment to discuss with the community out there, but we have to make some progress, we have been buying and selling for close to a century now we have to add value. If Sierra Leone has to sustain its economic growth we have to add value to our products. This is a message not only for meeting but a message that will be trumpeted out there as we start the rebranding process after the Ebola.”
Speaking about the OIC conference in Istanbul, Turkey, President Ernest Bai Koroma said “we have our international obligations and commitment that is why, I will be travelling for the 13th OIC summit.”
He explained that the OIC was set up to promote solidarity for economic and social development among member states and “we have a major feature that the OIC has been addressing which is the Palestine issue, but for the purpose of this meeting we will be looking at the ‘unity and solidarity for justice and peace’”.
The President disclosed that this theme was selected as the world is faced with attacks from terrorists who are promoting their ideas in the guise of Islam and for Africa. He cited issues in Libya, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan, saying “we will use this summit to address some of these issues and proffer solutions and find a way how we can support peace measures that have already been established.”

Latest stories

Subscribe

- Never miss a story with notifications

- Gain full access to our premium content

- Browse free from up to 5 devices at once