By: JUSTICE TV& RADIO ONLINE
Hon. Alhaji Musa Tarawally is a self employed Business Executive with governance and private sector experience for over 30 years. His experience has earned him great results and networks globally.
He started business after his studies and enterprise his skills by establishing a company (a construction company), through which he won infrastructure contracts and employed most of his former colleagues. It became a successful business to date.
…Early Humanitarian Services…
During the outbreak of the war, he engaged in humanitarian services and decided to study leadership, human development, advocacy and cooperative development at Human Development International (HDI) through their West Africa representative Mary Grace Iki.
He built his capacity to establish a Non-Governmental Organization called Advocate for Human Development Toward Self Reliance of Sierra Leone (AHDSS).
AHDSS succeeded in organizing one hundred cooperative societies mostly women across Sierra Leone, training grassroots in small scale businesses, thus building the capacity of Sierra Leoneans to become self-reliant. His success story in humanitarian services, established the political platform to represent his constituent in parliament.
—-Parliamentarian—-
He served in the 2002 to 2007 parliamentary year as SLPP member of parliament representing his constituency and successfully served on several committees.
As a Parliamentarian, he presented motions, debated bills in the interest of his country and facilitated development project for his constituent including the re negotiation of salaries and benefits of MPs.
—-Minister——
He served as Minister of Government from 2007 to 2015.
Resident Minister South: He consolidated regional peace, coordinated development projects including the return of Njala University, construction of the Moyamba Junction to Moyamba town township road feeder and township roads in the south, coordinated the activities of Local Councils and facilitated fundings for their projects, supervised policy implementations and the activities of Traditional Leaders including Paramount Chiefs.
He left the Southern Region with an award from stakeholder for uniting and developing the region.
Minister of Internal Affairs:
He Championed security sector reforms, supervised policy implementation, rebranding of the security sector, developed the integration and automation of security sector operations (Police, Immigration, Fire Force, Prisons, Anti-Drugs etc) and equipped the institutions with the necessary tools. ( Fire engines and more fire stations, riot equipments, rehabilitation of police stations, prisons and developed the Fire safety Laws, transformed the prisons to correctional centers, amended most of the obsolete laws of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, introduced the monthly one bag of rice to every police officer, established strong monitoring process for law enforcement which reduced crime significantly.
Settled national and gang disputes which stopped the unlawful killing and riotous conducts of youths.
Minister of Lands Country Planning and the Environment
Championed the development of the National Land Policy, supervised policy implementation, developed the policy concept for biometric registration of land parcels and the cadastral system, managed land use and efficient country planning. Developed an efficient environmental policy, strengthen EPA enforcement, recovered thousand of acres of state land, thereby creating over 5000 hectares of land banks for Government.
With the aforementioned, he was inclined to contest as presidential candidate in the 2018 General Elections with a vision as described in his presidential debate.
—-Post Politics—-
Business Executive
In 2015 after serving as Minister, he established a company focusing on investments and providing consultancy services to Foreign Direct Investment in Africa and beyond.
Mobilizing investments, building partnerships and solutions with Governments in Africa on PPP and BOT bases, creating investments in infrastructure and trading activities which has executed several investments in Africa.
He is also involved in manufacturing of building materials, import and export of commodities, established fashion line, garment factory, with training facilities. Currently training 100 women in Sierra Leone as Industrial tailors.
—-Philanthropy—-
He is engaged in providing humanitarian services to religious groups, vulnerable communities and victims of disasters. One of his NGOâs is facilitating allowances to 7000 Imams monthly, building schools and paying 10,000 Islamic teachers, teaching standard curriculum and Islamic studies, building mosques and supporting churches.
There is so much more to talk about this Sierra Leonean blessed genius, who is impacting the lives of several people.
