14 April, 2008

Sierra Express, Freetown

Ward Community Commend Nat Lamin For Chairmanship

The Western Area Rural District councilors and community elders have commended aspirant councilor Mr. Nathaniel Gibril Lamin for the Council chairmanship in the forthcoming rural district elections.

Lamin has done voluntary work for the community like the cleaning of cemeteries, cleaning of the Waterloo reservoir, construction of access roads and bridges with local materials, public sensitization on government policies, etc., and he is a good organizer of political and stakeholders in the Waterloo Koya and York rural districts.

One of the community elders said Mr. Nat. Lamin was project group coordinator of the Qualified Teachers Talented, a youth’s development organization in Waterloo that organized extra classes for junior and senior secondary school pupils at Bassa Town.

He was the chairman of the Community Development Organization based at Lumpa through which he is said to have implemented a number of community development projects.

Mr. Lamin has other interests and membership of groups in the western area rural district and presently he is a member of the Masjid Rahman Jamaat the Central mosque in the Lumpa community and president of the Waterloo Social Athletics Club. He also organized top priorities and most important challenges facing the western area rural district, the promotion of primary and public health care, improving the status of schools and tertiary institutions in the district, promotion of economic activities improving general equality and maintenance of law and order, As district council chairman Lamin promised to increase the number of classrooms in some schools to accommodate more pupils, bringing more and qualified teachers to the rural area, advocacy for the approval by government or newly established technical and vocational education for youths, and the establishment of good libraries and laboratories and the provision of scholarship. 

Promoting agricultural activities increased the production of basic food crops, work for the provision of loans and credit facilities for the farmers, improving the fishing industry and advocating for the establishments of a bank and a market center in Waterloo will lay on his table quick action.

Lamin vows to increase gender equality and participation of women in the decision making process of the council, and on partnerships with the police, to provide security and safety in the district.

With an M.Sc in Agro-Ecology and a holder of sustainable agriculture certificate in Spanish language and computer software, B.Sc. Agriculture. Education, Peninsular Secondary School Sc/GCE and primary education at Benguema Waterloo, Lamin is a community man.

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