Sierra Leone: New Chapters Proposed in New Constitution

The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) has proposed four new chapters - Local Government and Decentralisation, Citizenship, Land, Natural Resources and the Environment as well as Information, Communication and the Media - to be included in the revised 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone.

President Ernest Bai Koroma official launched the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), comprising 80 members representing different stakeholders in society, including political parties, democratic institutions, NGOs and the media, in July 2013 with the mandate to review the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone and the Peter Tucker Constitutional Commission Report (PTCR), submitted to the government in January 2008 as a working document.

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