The President, Economic Community of West African States Commission, His Excellency, Omar Touray, has approved 500,000 dollars in financial support for Sierra Leone’s presidential and parliamentary elections fixed for June 24th.
The commission, in a statement, added that it was deploying 95 observers for the elections.
The statement noted that the deployment of observers was in line with provisions of Articles 12 to 14 of the 2001 Regional Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance on Assistance to Member-States Holding Elections.
According to the statement, the ECOWAS Election Observation Mission will be led by Head of the UN Office in West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Chambas, with former ECOWAS Representative in Liberia and Guinea-Bissau, Ansumana Ceesay, to serve as Deputy Head of Mission.
The mission will be assisted by a technical team to be led by the ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Abdel-Fatau Musah.
