Concord Times (Freetown)
27 July 2011
Freetown — President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma will in the early hours of Friday morning officially commission the new National Electoral Commission (NEC) national Headquarter at State Avenue, on the sloop of Tower Hill central Freetown.
NEC headquarter which has for a long period been a wooden structure, has now been transformed into an ultra-modern edifies now accommodate both the electoral commission and the Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone.
The building was erected by the Overseas Trading Construction Company’s architectural and engineering services in partnership with the International Construction Services and the quality surveyors were J.T. Roy Macauley and Associates.
Structurally, the new NEC headquarter depicts Pa Demba Road frame, a Sierra Leonean who helped protect the returned slave against the French Invasion in Freetown -holding a Ballot Paper.
It also illustrate Mammy Yenoh, who is to bear the children of ‘our future generations’ whiles the Child-Samei-the name meaning-‘I refuse to use rouge method’.
Another significant meaning of the whole new NEC sculpture is the country’s democratic goal, clearly indicating that; ‘If we vote freely, only one person will win through the ballot box, at any one time.’
It could be recalled that the turning of the sod for the construction of the NEC headquarter was done by former president Alhaji Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah on 11th May 2001.
The entire project is said to be largely funded by the Government of Sierra Leone and development partners.
It has a capacity of one hundred and thirty-nine rooms with adequate facilities ranging from fire protection, fully electrified with regular water supply system.
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