It was built in the 1970s by the All People's Congress (APC) and the grandstands were renovated in 1994, costing over Le10 million.
On November 18, 1996, then-president Tejan Kabbah spoke at Wusum Stadium in his first visit to Makeni.
[1] In 2002, Kabbah travelled again to the stadium to commemorate the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2002 for a symbolic arms-burning with Issa Sesay.
The president of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma was among those in attendance.
John Oponjo Benjamin, the leader of the main opposition, the Sierra Leone People's Party was attendance as well as Charles Margai, the leader of the PMDC the third major political party in Sierra Leone