Salutations:
I am greatly honoured to be with you this morning as a representative of the Minister of Information and Communications, Hon. Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo to formally launch the independent Media Commission?s 2013-2015 Programme and Organizational Strategic Plan and GPS Maps of Sierra Leone.The efficiency of any organization or institution is determined by its Strategic plan which outlines its activities in the coming years and what the outputs will be. The Strategic Plan helps you to measure and evaluate your performance in concrete terms and determine where you succeeded and where the challenges are as the case may be.
I am particularly delighted to see the Independent Media Commission develop the Geographic Positioning System which is a sub-set of the Global Positioning System(GPS) which is not a novelty but not properly utilized as a major work tool and source of information in Sierra Leone. The Global Positioning System is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS Satellites. In this case, the Global Positioning System developed by the Independent Media Commission has to do with maps that provide information about the location of newspaper or media houses in Sierra Leone. These maps will be more useful to researchers and potential investors in the media industry in Sierra Leone. These maps will serve as a guide to their investment interests rather than bothering the Chairman of the Commission to provide details with regards to the number and location of media houses.
This act is an indication of my Ministry?s success in our attempt to inject a new life into the media regulator. Therefore, in commending the Commissioners and staff of the Independent Media Commission, I must say a big thank you to the United Nations Development Programme for supporting this laudable venture. We are and still remain to be partners in the development efforts of the Government.
The intention of the Ministry of Information and the Government at large is to undertake reforms in all sectors in the governance structure of the State and the Independent Media Commission is no exception. For democracy to thrive effectively, all institutions that have to do with freedom of expression and the dissemination of information must be allowed to function properly and their presence must be felt at all levels of governance. The creation of the Independent Media Commission by Government to allow the media to regulate itself was deliberate to avoid Government?s direct interference in the activities of the media. More particularly when it has to do with issues of redress from members of the public or even the media practitioners themselves.
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen it is no secret that Government has done remarkably well in allowing the media regulator to perform its functions independently without any overt or covert interference by the Executive arm of Government.
The Commission is dominated by veteran media practitioners that have the savvy to monitor and regulate the excesses of their former colleagues. That is why; I am not surprised by the introduction of this new drive, that is, a collation of the media houses in Sierra Leone in the form of a map. This speaks volumes of the type of leadership at the Independent Media Commission.
The Independent Media Commission like all institutions may have its own challenges, some of which these august gathering may be aware of, but the fact of the matter is that they have today manifested a clear indication of the path they want to take in the three years and how they want to achieve the targets set out in that Strategic Plan.
On this note, I want to thank the initiators of this golden idea and the sponsors as well for making this project a reality.
On behalf of the Minister of Information and Communications, Hon. Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, I now formally launch the Programme and Organizational Strategic Plan of the IMC 2013-2015 and the GPS Maps of Sierra Leone. I thank you.
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