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DDR sensitisation efforts continue

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    Members of NCDDR's information unit travelled to Bo and Kenema last week in their latest attempt to spread the word on the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme, according to NCDDR's latest information bulletin.

    "The decision to venture into the provinces, which is considered long overdue, was taken in response to the uncomfortable realisation that many people including ex-combatants and their commanders do not know much about the DDR programme," NCDDR said.

    During meetings with KISS 104 FM and SLBS 93.5, provincial radio stations in Bo and Kenema respectively, the team provided broadcast material on the DDR programme, including the newly recorded DDR song.

    For the past five months NCDDR has been running a DDR radio programme on the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service which has only been heard in the Freetown peninsula as it was not broadcast on shortwave.

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