Speeches

During an exclusive interview with Liberty Online TV yesterday morning, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr was asked whether maintenance of roads was the responsibility of Freetown City Council. She explained that the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) has the responsibility to do the maintenance work whilst the Road Maintenance Fund collects the fees from vehicle licences and a […]

The Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr on Sunday 7th September 2025 donated learning materials to over two hundred and fifty school going children of R.C Primary and Junior Secondary School at Kagbankona village, Biriwa Chiefdom, Bombali District. The donation of school bags, exercise books, pens, pencils, erasers and chalk was made in the presence of

Today, I was honored to receive an award from the Mama Pekin Foundation, in recognition of my contribution to the Postgraduate Training Program in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pediatrics. In early 2020, I had a conversation with Dr Fatu Forna about the link between the lack of postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Sierra Leone

On September 7, 2025, in Kakorla Village, Biriwa Chiefdom, Bombali District, Mayor of Freetown, Comrade Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, joined the APC Acting National Chairman Amb Osman Foday Yansaneh, the National Secretary-General Lansana Dumbuya, other APC comrades, family members and well-wishers at the funeral of the late Chief Sumiala A Y Sesay, also known as Chief

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, Mayor of Freetown Watch Full Speech HERE In reviewing the theme, I felt that it was important to start with a look back into history. To ask the questions “what are we independent from?” and “why are we independent?” Independence from colonial rule is often met with the implicit assumption that colonizers