Parliament of Sierra Leone has given a 7-day ultimatum to MNOs and ISPs over the submission of their financial statements.

Following its continued public hearings on queries raised in the Auditor General’s Report for 2023, the Public Accounts Committee, chaired by the Deputy Speaker of Sierra Leone Parliament, Hon. Ibrahim Tawa Conteh, on Wednesday 09/04/2025, heard officials from the Universal Access Development Fund (UADF).

At the hearing on Wednesday, Internet Service Providers and Mobile Network Operators including Orange, Africell, Qcell, Zoodlabs, Metro Cable, and K3 were asked to submit their audited financial statements to the Public Accounts Committee.

They’re required by law to submit documents to the Public Accounts Committee during the course of executing her constitutional mandate, failing which is deemed contemptible by Parliament.

Upon submitting their audited financial statements, the actual calculations will be done for purposes of deducting the actual sums that are payable to the government as required by law.

In another development, a delegation from the World Bank and the Sierra Leone Digital Transformation Project (SLDTP) on Wednesday, 09 April 2025, gave a comprehensive update to the Rt. Hon. Segepoh Solomon Thomas on the digitalization of the Parliament of Sierra Leone.

The delegation told the Speaker of Sierra Leone Parliament that they had done the procurement process, and had signed contract for the commencement of work for the digitalization of Sierra Leone Parliament Project funded by the World Bank.

According to the team of experts, after fruitful implementation,  the e-Parliament solution will digitize and transform the core functions of Sierra Leone Parliament into paperless approach and to move the Businesses of the House from traditional manual system to a digital operation, reduce Parliamentary administrative running cost such as stationeries, toners, fuel consumptions etc, save time, reduce excessive Human Resource energy and will produce accurate and easily accessible Parliamentary documents for MP’s.

The delegation informed the Speaker that, the e-Parliament will also make Parliament more open, transparent, and accessible and caters for citizens’ participation.