FREETOWN, March 03, (232News)
Residents of Valunia Chiefdom wasted no time to commend the tremendous work done by Seawright Mining Company in and out of the operational areas.
Stakeholders made this commendation during a Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Mines based on complaints made by Algom Resource Ltd Company, a mining company owning exploration license.
The People of the chiefdom loudly stated that they did not want Algom Mining Company in their area, explaining that they have written several letters to the Minister of Mines and NMA, stating that they don’t want that company in their locality because some of these companies are given exploration license but with little or no monitoring are involved in actual mining while they refuse to pay royalties to the government and surface rent to the people.
Section Chief Musa Nabieu among other speakers explained that despite the fact that Algom is an exploration holder, there are other companies that are operating in another neighboring chiefdom with exploration license but are doing CRS for their people, pointing out what Seawright Mining Company is doing in other neighboring Chiefdoms.
The Former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Maria E. Brewer joined Seawright Mining Company to commission a modern cold room facility constructed and donated by the Company for the people of Gorama Mende.
Seawright Mining Company made annual payments to land owners of Nimiyama and Gorama Mende Chiefdoms in the tune of hundreds of Million Leones.
Nimiyama Chiefdom Chief, PC George Bockarie Torto thanked the company for a number of reasons such as the payment to land owners and the state-of-the-art cold room among others which he said the company has done beyond the chiefdom imagination in what they are doing for them.
Sierra Leone Members of Parliament Hon. Alex Mattia Rogers of Constituency 102, Pujehun District commended Seawright Mining Company for undertaking a tour in relation to fish farming before implementing it in Sierra Leone.
He described the venture as a laudable sustainable development project Seawright Mining Company is determined to implement in Sierra Leone.
The multi million Dollars fish farming project is at its completion stage at the Aquaculture Department of Njala University, Nimiyama and Gorama Mende Chiefdoms respectively.
The Company is constructing a modern school in Gorama Mende Chiefdoms which is at the completion stage.
Seawright Mining Company blueprint are visible in communities beyond their operational areas. They have undertaken school projects, road/bridge constructions, waters wells construction, donate one billion Leones to help fight Corona in Sierra Leone, donate to the Police, and donate learning materials to schools and universities.
Currently, the Company is paying teachers, ongoing school feeding program among others.
Dr. Alfred Seawright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Seawright Mining Company once said people need to showcase what they were doing and promised of the Company’s wiliness to do anything that will make fish farming project work in Sierra Leone.
“The system we are putting together, we are doing 100% of it. The RAS system will be able to generate 40 tons of fish every six months and we will do that full time.”
