HE. Tamba James Sylvanus Lamina, was chauffeured to the inner chambers of the very bowels of Saint James Court in a royally requisitioned horse-drawn carriage.

The journey was specifically undertaken for the purposes of presenting HE Lamina’s diplomatic credentials to the queen, with whom he had an engaging conversation about her special interest in Sierra Leone and the struggles to overcome its development challenges.

Following the swift and smooth execution of that precisely fine-tuned state ritual, the High Commissioner was respectfully escorted back to the warm atmosphere of the exquisite halls in the exclusive Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, where he delivered a touching speech declaring the break of a “new dawn” in Sierra Leone’s history.