The Coordinator of the Tripartite Steering Committee Secretariat has engaged leaders of registered political parties on the implementation of the Tripartite Recommendations.
“I feel honoured to address you on the implementation of the Tripartite Recommendations at your meeting, your own parliament where all of you, registered political parties, are sited, and where questions can come from all direction at your pleasure. It is my pleasure to particularly entreat you as regards the operation of the Secretariat, and to commend you for the relationship we have built over the course of time. I look forward to a more enduring collaboration adopting a new module directing our relationship,” Coordinator of Tripartite Secretariat said.
Ngolo Katta was addressing party leaders at the 10th inter-party dialogue committee meeting held on December 18, 2025, at Brook Fields hotel in Freetown. It was called by the Political Parties Registration Commission.
According to Mr. Katta, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice had presented a bill to the Government Printer for gazetting. It contained legislations on elections which were proposed by the Tripartite Recommendations and the Constitutional Review Reports. Following the completion of that process, the bill would be taken to parliament.
On voter registration and result management system, two international consultants were hired by UNDP to provide best practice mechanics on how ECSL could manage that process.
He told the dialogue meeting that the Public Service Reform Unit (PSRU) had conducted Management and Functional Reviews (MFR) on PPRC, IMC, SLBC, and IPCB, which reports would be submitted to the Chief Minister. The MFRs were informed by various recommendations in the Tripartite Report. On the same subject, IPCB was developing a bill that would establish it, and new acts for SLBC and IMC were at an advanced stage.
ECSL had developed a consultation policy, temporary staff recruitment policy, and information and management policy. Implementation of the recommendations proposing these policies would be on-going until ECSL commenced use of the policies.
On the 16-district-level public education activities funded by the UNDP, 2,400 participants were targeted. They were drawn from political parties, CSOs, bike riders, traders, youth groups, women groups, district and city councils, councilors, devolved sectors, PWDs, etc. The events were civic empowerment to educate citizens on what the recommendations say and the actions taken around them.
Political Parties listened with interest and generated a gamut of concerns and questions not around the implementation process, but about the nature of some of the recommendations. They proposed that recommendation 79 requesting for diaspora voting be reconsidered; recommendation 70 requesting for deregistration of political parties be reviewed; and recommendation 48 allowing independent candidate for presidential election be reviewed. They wanted recommendation 36 be reviewed to request the president to consult with political parties for the appointment of the chairman and commissioners of ECSL.
The inter-party dialogue committee meeting appears to be an appropriate forum for discussing tripartite recommendations since, almost all registered political parties will be present. Ngolo Katta assured them of his presence each time he was requested.
