UN General Assembly
1968

29. My duty as the first civilian leader of my country’s delegation in two years to this twenty-third session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization is to express publicly on behalf of my Government and on behalf of our peoples throughout Sierra Leone the relief we feel over our achievement of a peaceful and bloodless return to civilian rule, and to a resumption of the institutions of parliamentary democracy under which we had hitherto lived. To those of you who may not be too familiar with the background of my country’s history, permit me the indulgence of reciting cursorily for your benefit some of the highlights of that history in order to accentuate the reasons for the sometimes seemingly inordinate emphasis which, as a people, we tend to place upon the rule of law and on constitutional forms of Government.