President Ernest Bai Koroma has showered very generous praises on his spouse, First Lady Sia Nyama Koroma, for her attitudinal-and-behavioural-change organization’s efforts at setting the pace for other organisations to follow in responding to his call for attitudinal and behaviourial change in the Sierra Leonean mindset.

Courtesies

I feel honored to be here today to launch this all important project. Our country got its name from
these lion shaped mountains. Preventing its destruction is equivalent to preventing our nation from
catastrophe. These mountains provide water for the city of Freetown and its environs; these forests
and mountains sloping down to the most beautiful beaches in the world would make our nation a
prime touristic destination; these mountain are unique in West Africa, from Morocco to Cameroon,
there is no other piece of land with mountains rising up to almost 1 km from sea level. But today these
mountains, these forests, the streams and beaches are under a grave threat. Land grabbing, tree felling,
illegal construction on steep slopes, uncontrollable sand mining and stone breaking are turning these
protective mountains into disasters waiting to happen. The survival of Freetown, which contains over
a quarter of our population, is on the line.

The United Nations Peace Building Commission has yesterday 8th March 2010 lauded President Ernest Bai Koroma for the achievements made by his government in governance in a very short time since he assumed office. Making a statement at State House on a courtesy call on the President, the Executive Representative of the United Nations Secretary General, Michael Schulenburg, thanked President Koroma for the progress made under the ‘Agenda for Change’, thus registering the total commitment and support of the UN Peace Building Commission to Sierra Leone and to the ‘Agenda for Change’.