The leadership/representatives of the All People’s Congress (APC), the Coalition for Change (C4C), the National Grand Coalition (NGC) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) yesterday signed a communiqué at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown.
The communiqué was signed at a dialogue lunch convened by the Political Parties Regulation Commission (PPRC).
The parties agreed to promote, observe and enforce the observance of the cultural and moral values of Sierra Leone and to condemn all forms of obscenities, vulgarities, hate speech and all other proscribed conduct in the Political Parties Act No 25 of 2022, against their political opponents.
It was also agreed that political parties will continue to engage and admonish their members and supporters to refrain from all such conduct, in the course of their partisan activities and that they commit to support and cooperate with the Sierra Leone Police, to identify and arrest perpetrators of all such proscribed conduct, in the course of their activities.
The political parties encouraged the PPRC to engage the leadership of political parties before invoking the powers conferred on them in the new Act, each time there is perceived transgression by any of the parties in the spirit of mutual cooperation and goodwill.