The mayoral candidate of the governing Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Mohamed Gento Kamara, on Saturday 3rd June, 2023 officially launched his Manifesto titled: “Freetown For We All” at the Hub Hotel on Spur Road, Wilberforce in Freetown.

The SLPP National Secretary General, Umaru Napoleon Koroma, steered the official launch of the manifesto of the mayoral candidate.
Conspicuously clad in his traditional long white gown, white cap and a green rob around his neck, Mohamed Gento Kamara said as our Mayor, his motivation is to commit himself to fixing the Freetown Municipality so that it works for all Freetownians.

“My focus will be on providing clean water, sanitation services, job creation and public spaces, including dignified health centres, marketplaces and recreational facilities for all,” the SLPP mayoral candidate assured.
Mohamed Gento furthered that “We will enhance access to public services in a manner which appreciates the self-worth of all citizens. I will purposefully include those who have traditionally been marginalized and forgotten by society.”

The Mayor in waiting assured that by cleaning the mess, instilling order, and creating employment opportunities throughout the city, “we will enable everyone to rise and live in dignity, from East End to Aberdeen, from the kekeh rider to the market seller, to the footballers, to the fishermen, to the tailors, to the artistes, to the business executives.”

According to Mohamed Gento, “With this critical infrastructure and socio-economic framework in place, we can all begin to enjoy what Freetown has to offer – a vibrant culture and beautiful city, where all citizens can pursue their dreams.”

He emphasized that he believes in “an inclusive, accessible and accountable local government, which is responsive to the needs of all people no matter their heritage or status,” adding, “Our city leadership will also respect and collaborate with chiefs, traditional and religious leaders and local community leaders, so that no one is left behind.”

Therefore, the Mayor in waiting passionately appealed to Freetownians to join him fix Freetown together.
Mohamed Gento Kamara is in the mayoral campaign as someone who spent over two decades getting things done, which he carries as a badge of honour.

After building successful mobile phone and real estate businesses in the United Kingdom, the SLPP mayoral candidate returned to Sierra Leone at the request of the late erstwhile President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

“I was living a life of comfort and safety, but I came because I knew I had a duty to leverage the skills I had fine-tuned in the West for my country of birth,” Gento disclosed.

The SLPP mayoral candidate is the first Sierra Leonean to manage large government contracts. And for the past decade, he has built numerous roads, including the Waterloo Township Road, Ring Road, Kerry Town Road, Juba Estate Road, Congo Cross Stone Pitch, and King Jimmy Bridge, as well as the Hill Cot Road, which many people thought was impossible.

Since the Local Government Act was introduced in 2004 in the Second Republic of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Gento Kamara is the first mayoral candidate to have presented a manifesto to Freetownians, whilst his predecessors were accessed on the basis of their ethnicity.