ATK Foundation concludes Dialogue for National Cohesion with Makeni Media Practitioners & Stakeholders

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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson 

The Ahmed Tejan Kabba Foundation for Peace, Tolerance, Human Rights and Democracy has successfully engaged Makeni media practitioners and Stakeholders for two day’s at the PC Kasanagh-II Barray In Makeni city, Bombali District, Northeastern-Sierra Leone.

The media practitioners were drawn from various radio, television and newspaper institutions in Makeni while the Paramount Cheif of Bombali Shebora Chiefdom PC Kasanagah-II, a representative each from the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists and the Media department of Sierra Leone Police in the Northeast region were the stakeholders that took part in the training.

The ATK-Foundation’s Communications Officer Dzuliatu Hamid facilitated the training on the topic: “dialogue across division:  Promoting effective civic participation and national cohesion.”

In her presentation, she disclosed that “ATK-Foundation is working together with its donor partner OSIWA to train media practitioners in Makeni, Kono,  Kenema, Bo and Freetown and emphasized that the primary rational is to let media practitioners and stakeholders become emissaries of peace that will promote tolerance, effective civic participation and National cohesion in their respective districts and by extension nationwide.”

Trainees and trainers dialogued on a number of issues including contemporary occurrences in Makeni city and its surroundings that had caused unrest, and did proffer ways of preventing such occurrences in the future. 

In the end, the trainees were urged to ensuring peace, nuturality and tolerance in their work every day work to promote national cohesion.

SLBC’ Hassan Foray Kamara and Northern Times Newspaper’s Amadu Wurie Timbo on behalf of other participants assured to make. good use of the training ideas says they will stick to practicing sans acting as they are expectations to.