By Abass Mahmoud Sillah Jr
The Director General of Sierra Leone Road Authority Ing Alfred Jalil Momodu has on Friday 26th September 2025 provided a clear Justification for 10% minimal Increment which the Authority is requesting from the Ministry of Finance for fiscal year 2026. He was making this Justification during their FY2026 budget presentation at bilateral budget discussions in the Ministry of Finance Conference Hall George Street Freetown. This according to him the rationale for such a request is based upon following reasons, saying the arrangements approved by the Ministry of Finance effective October 2025 have no effect on the current wage bill as the review that included 15% Increment and additional 46 personnel were only possible due to the savings made through staff drawdown over the years. Therefore this still stands at about NLe 35 million. He furthermore revealed in recent years SLRA have suffered significant losses of staff, either by death, resignation and retirement and this is impacting the overall operational efficiency of Sierra Leone Road Authority. Because the staff that the authority has lost over the years have not been replaced . Stating the reason for resignation, he said it is as a result of salary scale of other institutions in the Road sector is by far higher than the salary scale of SLRA. Also mentioned that the authority has established district offices which additional personnel will be introduced for effective functioning of the institution that are in line with government decentralisation efforts .
Speaking on FY2026 budget, he said SLRA template was prepared based on the guidelines format given to them by Ministry of Finance, that consists of their operational costs and Road maintenance budget ,showing all the development programmes including ongoing capital intensive projects indicates government commitments for next three years. He also highlighted on the key Deliverables for FY2026 whereby the authority intend to rehabilitate/reconstruct major roads, construct major bridges.
He concluded by saying that it is important to note that most of the government of Sierra Leone capital projects budgeted for last year were roll-over and they have been under implementation for quite a while due to budget constraints
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