Former President Koroma’s Engineering Corps Concept Endorsed

By Ralph Sesay
Dr. Frank-Jurgen Richter, former World Bank Economic Forum boss and Chairman of Horasis, has endorsed Koroma’s Engineering corps concept while on a visit to the residence of the former President in Makeni last week.
The Horasis Chairman’s visit to the former President was to pay him a courtesy call and also invite him to the 2020 Horasis meeting.
It could be recalled that during the April 2019 Horasis meeting in Cascais, Portugal, President Koroma launched the widely commendable initiative for an African Peace Engineering Corps.
The former APC strong man was also said to have been very instrumental in holding several high level side meetings bordering on peace, good governance and economic development in Africa.
“I found President Koroma’s presence during the 2019 meeting and his contribution extremely valuable to the overall objectives of Horasis,’’ Dr Jurgen noted.
Dr. Frank Jurgen also implored former President Koroma to recommend other African political and private sector leaders to the 2020 meeting where he will host a roundtable of former President and private sector gurus to further discuss the concept which, he says, his organization is willing and ready to fully support.
President Koroma was applauded at the Horasis 2019 meeting against the backdrop that his leadership to the West African country had sustained peace and national cohesion and cemented the country’s democracy.
Koroma has told the well acclaimed Horasis meeting of former leaders, technocrats and private sector players in Portugal in April, 2019 that Africa could make use of its military amidst the end of wars, military interregnums and peace building efforts to contribute to the development of their countries in the areas of agriculture, road construction and the building of other necessary infrastructure.
He argued that the military can play such a role due to its disciplined, capacity and numbers.
Former President Koroma noted that “we can start with 15% of the total numbers of our standing armies to start the concept modeling it around the American Peace Corps model which has done remarkably well in consolidating peace and development in the US.”