Statement by President of SLAJ, Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, at the first ever National Media Viability and Investment Conference
Date: 21-22 April 2022 Venue: Freetown International Conference Center (Bintumani), Aberdeen, Freetown, Sierra Leone Time: 9:30am Opening Courtesies... Today we are making another history as the first-ever National Media Viability and Investment Conference kicks off, marking the first conscious and determined step taken by media stakeholders with support from the Government of SL and the BBC Media Action’s PRIMED Project to begin to address the economic and other systemic challenges facing the media in Sierra Leone. There is no better time this media investment summit could have come other than now, almost two years after the historic repeal of the criminal and seditious libel law. And one of the strongest arguments we put forward for the repeal was that that law was preventing private sector investment into the media in the country because no sensible investor would want to invest in a sector that could easily escort them to police cells or the Pademba Road Prisons (now the SLCS...