President Julius Maada Bio has been accused of rejecting a billion dollar entertainment project that would have been a massive economic windfall for Sierra Leone.
According to Dr. Yaya Fanusie , a company called Kimballs Africa ONE planned to build a U.S $ 1 billion entertainment complex startup for Sierra Leone which would have brought not only huge employment opportunities for Sierra Leoneans, especially youths, but garnered enormous economic dividends to Sierra Leone’s foreign cash- starved economy. Over 3,000 Sierra Leoneans would have benefited from the employment opportunities provided by the project.
Though President Bio knew the immense benefits this project would have brought to the nation, he is being accused of rejecting it all because he had given a political crony named as Amara Dennis Jalloh a similar but far less lucrative entertainment project at Six Mile, outside Freetown.
According to Dr. Fanusie, he and his group contacted Dr. Julius Spencer and gave him the memo for the project
Julius Spencer. We gave him the memo in 2022, at a time when the presidential Adviser was responsible for developing strategy for the Tourism Ministry to attract foreign tourists. He got no response from him.
Dr. Fanusie stated that he also contacted Mr. Schiek Tunis of the Environment Protective Agency. ” He talked to me about it and said he was going to talk to Nabeela Tunis, the new Tourism Minister who is his relative” . Nothing good came out of it.
He talked to Umaru Woody of the National Tourist Board as well as the Minister of Trade, Ambassador Osman Sidiki Wai in DC and a Mr. Kosia of the Embassy. He also spoke to David Kamara who talked to few newspapers in Freetown, but all to no avail.
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