The Management of the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA), and the Gambia National Roads Authority (NRA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will foster communication, cooperation, and collaboration between the two.
The signing at the SLRA headquarter in Freetown, yesterday 13th September 2021, came at the end of a four-day institutional study tour by the NRA, of The Gambia in Freetown.
The Director General of SLRA, Engineer Amara Jambai Kanneh, explained that the MoU will further help to strengthen the existing relationship between his institution and that of The Gambian NRA, saying, “The Gambia and Sierra Leone are sister countries, we have shared many experiences with them and we have so many things in common.” He said they will try to adopt and adapt to some of the issues they have seen here, and they had also learnt some very useful lessons from the four-day tour in Sierra Leone.
The Managing Director of The Gambia NRA, Engineer Momodou Senghore, expressed appreciations to the SLRA team for the reception and professionalism accorded them during the study tour. He said what the SLRA have demonstrated is far beyond what they were expecting stating, “We thought this was just going to be a short visit where we would have some engagements with you in-house, but you have taken the chance to take us round to see some of your projects, which we are impressed with” he said.
The study tour was not going to be the end of the relationship between the two institutions, he said adding they will continue to engage at a greater level. The Ing. expressed the NRA’s desire to welcome the SLRA delegation to The Gambia on a similar study tour. He says they two countries share many things in common including the Act that established The Gambian NRA, which according to him, was borrowed from Sierra Leone.
The MoU commits the two institutions to, among other things, promote cooperation on strategies for the development and implementation of projects, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency by sharing best practices between the parties. The five-man delegation were in Sierra Leone, to understudy the operations of the country’s road sector, share ideas on road management issues and to strengthen collaboration between the two countries.
Present during the days engagement in Freetown were, the Ministry of Works and Public Assets, SLRA, Road Maintenance Fund Administration (RMFA) and The Gambian NRA.
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