The newly appointed Press Secretary at State House, Solomon Jamiru Esq., last week paid a courtesy call on the Executive of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) at our national headquarters at Campbell Street, Freetown.
Jamiru, who was accompanied by his team, started by thanking SLAJ for their professional collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communication during his tenure as Deputy Minister of that ministry; a collaboration he described as productive and fruitful.
“Together we achieved great things for media development in Sierra Leone, and we want to thank your leadership for the unique approach to engage and at the same time hold us accountable in a responsible manner,” said Jamiru.
He said he valued that relationship and wanted to continue with that in his new position as State House Press Secretary to make the office more meaningful and impactful.
In his response, SLAJ President Ahmed Sahid Nasralla
thanked the State House Press Secretary and his team for the visit, describing it as a move in the right direction. He also congratulated Jamiru on his new job and wished him well.
Nasralla urged Jamiru to maintain an open-door policy and to be proactive in the disclosure of information around the presidency if he wanted to emjoy a good relationship with the media and succeed as State House Press Secrerary.
The SLAJ President also talked about the annual State House-Media Cocktail and urged the new Press Secretary to review the format to make it less official, more interactive, and a meaningful and impactful engagement between His Excellency the President and the media.
The State House Press Secretary was accompanied, among others, by the State House Communications Manager Tanu Jalloh and Director Michael Berewa.
-SLAJ Secretariat
