FREETOWN, October 5, 2023 – The Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) has on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the newly appointed Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Premier League Board (PLB) at the Board Secretariat, Football Academy, Kingtom.
The purpose of this MOU is to establish a collaborative partnership between the Sports Journalists body and the country’s highest football league board and to establish the terms and conditions under which reporting on the Sierra Leone Premier League and all other related activities of the league that can be facilitated and enhanced to ensure coverage and promotion across the country.
The signed MoU includes, among others, a fair, balanced, objective reporting on activities of the Sierra Leone Premier League and ensures collaboration with the Premier League Board and its media team in all its social and capacity-building programmes.
Also, SWASAL and the Board must ensure they introduce the ‘Coach and Player of the Month’ award and must collaborate to produce a weekly special edition of the SWASAL Newspaper Sports World Newspaper that should be dedicated to the Sierra Leone Premier League.
Chairman of PLB, Victor Lewis, said: “We are delighted to sign this MoU and look forward to good collaboration with SWASAL.”
President of SWASAL, Sahr Morris Jr, said: “We hope this signed MoU will be embraced by sports journalists towards the development of the game and also for the authorities to see sports journalists as partners. We look forward to a positive working relationship as always.”
The signing of the MoU came a few weeks after the PLB Board Chairman had an engagement with the SWASAL executive.