On Thursday 19 January, the Minister of Mineral Resources, Hon. A. M. Mansaray, launched the GoSL Online Repository at the National Stadium, Freetown. The Online Repository gives the public full access to all industrial mineral licences and payments made to government. It also contains all exporters' licences and related payments, and is planned to include timber licences later in 2012.
The Honourable Minister Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray announced: "Madam Chairperson, ladies and gentlemen, we are here today to launch a solid tool of transparency that is crucial to fiscal good governance, and will prove very useful for stakeholders, researchers, investors and indeed the people of Sierra Leone. As a country we are very proud to be among only a handful of countries around the world that operate the system we are about to launch."