By Ragan M. Conteh
The Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Works which is headed up by the Deputy Leader of Government Business, Hon Bashiru Silikie, is very much angry with the CSE Company’s Manager for his failure to appear before the Committee on a summon.
The Committee, according to Hon Silikie summoned the CSE Company’s Manager to explain to his committee on the status report of the contracts awarded to the company in the country.
He said CSE’s manager defiantly refused to attend summon and instead sent his junior staff to answer questions asked by the Committee.
Hon Bashiru Silikie described such action as an affront to Parliament and it is a commitment of a crime against a Committee that has the powers enshrined in the nation’s Constitution.
As a result, the chairman of the Works Committee stood down the CSE junior officials until next week Wednesday.
It was revealed in Parliament that; government has awarded CSE company four (4) major road projects in the country but whose works are all in a slow pace.
Director General of the Sierra Leone Road Authority (SLRA), Ing. Alfred Jalil Momodu, also informed MPs that, they were very much concern about the manner in which CSE’s company members conducted themselves.
The SLRA boss revealed that the company had withdrawn experience staff and have only left only few inexperience staff to do the work in Sierra Leone.
The Committee had also been furnished with the information that CSE Company had become reckless that the company manager’s son who knows nothing about road work is now taking care of the company while his father has fled to Liberia.
It was also discovered that CSE has exported their machinery and manpower to another country leaving the country’s projects vulnerable.
The Committee in parliament has resolved that if the CSE manager fails to attend summon next week Wednesday, the committee will act tough on the company.