Orange Sierra Leone has on Tuesday 11th October 2022, celebrated Orange-SL 10th Ethics and Compliance Day 2022 at the company’s headquarters on 25 Main Road, Regent, Hill Station Freetown.Ethics and Compliance Day helps to ensure that Orange-SL operates within the law and stays true to its own ethical principles that are important to the company’s business and identity. Ten departments were divided into two groups to form the two debating teams.
The topic of the interdepartmental debate competition, “Is it possible to do business in Sierra Leone without bribery?” – shed light on the important issues that surround the rise and fall of business in Sierra Leone.
In attendance were the Deputy Minister of Information and Communication, Solomon Jamiru Esq, Chief Executive Officer, Innovation Sierra Leone, Francis George, the Deputy Director of Strategy at the Anti-Corruption Commission, Edita Fofanah, and the President of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmad Sahid Nasralla.
The winner of the interdepartmental debate competition, ‘Team For’ won the debate with a total of 438 points – they took home the sum of Three Thousand Five Hundred New Leones (NLE 3.500.00) and ‘Team against’ were runners up with a total of 429 points, and which also took home the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred New Leones (NLE 1.500.00). The best speaker prize was shared between Morenikeh Taylor of ‘Team For’ and Kenneth Kamara of ‘Team Against’.
Earlier welcoming all to Orange-SL 10th Ethics and Compliance celebration, Madam Haffie Haffner said ethics and compliance is a day the Orange group has put aside to celebrate and take a stance on the framework of their institution, to promote ethics and anti-corruption.
She informed that they collaborated with the Human Resource Department to organize the interdepartmental debate competition, to make it a little bit different from previous ethics and compliance celebrations, as well as to enhance ethics and compliance in customer relations.
She reaffirmed Orange-SL’s commitments in promoting anti-corruption crusade with strict bye-laws that governs the institution, adding that they have a stringent team that ensures that customer relations are free from corruption and enhance ethics.
The Deputy Minister of Information and Communication, Solomon Jamiru Esq, profusely thanked Orange-SL for giving him the opportunity to perform a very important and tedious task, saying that Ethics and Compliance is a topic that everyone should feel connected to, as they share the experience.
He underscored the benefits of the discussion as it formed the basis for all institutions going forward, as compliance lies within all of us and it’s up to us to do our best. Award of certificates to participants accompanied with snapshots formed the high point of Orange-SL’s 10th Ethics and Compliance 2022 celebration.
