Freetown City Council is the municipal government of the city of

Freetown Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and po ...

, the capital of

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierr ...

. It was established in 1893 and is one of the oldest municipal governments in Africa. The Freetown City Hall, located on Wallace-Johnson Street, is the meeting place and seat of government of the Freetown City Council. The city of Freetown is politically divided into three regions: East End Freetown, Central Freetown and the West End of Freetown, which are subdivided into

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s. Members of the Freetown city council, including the mayor, are

directly elected Direct election is a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the persons or political party that they desire to see elected. The method by which the winner or winners of a direct election are cho ...

every four years by the residents of Freetown and they represent different wards throughout the city. Members of the Freetown City Councils are known as

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, except the deputy mayor and the mayor, in whom local

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is vested within the city of Freetown. The City Council, including the mayor, are responsible for the general management of the city of Freetown. The mayor carry out laws pass by the city council. The Freetown City Council is noted for having its own

municipal police Municipal police, city police, or local police are law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government. This includes the municipal government, where it is the smallest administrative subdivision. They receive funding ...

forces. The current mayor of Freetown is Her Worship

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr, OBE (; born 7 January 1968) is a Sierra Leonean politician and finance professional, who is serving as the current mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital and largest city; she assumed office on 11 May 2018. Pri ...

OBE of the

All People's Congress The All People's Congress (APC) is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone, the other being its main political rival the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). The APC has been the main opposition party in Sierra Leone since 4 Ap ...

(APC). All appointed members by the mayor must be approved by the Freetown City Council before taking office. Since its founding to present, virtually all mayors of Freetown are members of the Creole ethnic group. Freetown City Council

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has been dominated by the All People's Congress party (APC). The Freetown City Council is one of the most powerful municipal government in Africa. its powers include, but not limited to: *Collect local

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*Responsible for city cleaning and trash collection *Has its own

force *Control streets and petty trading *Issue of business license to shop owners and petty tradershttp://allafrica.com/stories/200901130903.html *Monitor

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and bike riders *Remove abandon vehicles off the streets *In charge of cemeteries in Freetown *Supervises and inspect

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and local shops

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* {{Authority control Freetown City councils 1893 establishments in Sierra Leone