President Bio Departs Freetown For United Nations General Assembly, ICC Prosecutors’ Meeting
Sorie Abubakar Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has departed Freetown on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, for New York, United States where he will be attending the United Nations General Assembly and honoring an invitation by the International Criminal Court prosecutor.
The 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 78) under the theme, ‘Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all’ opened on Tuesday, 5 September 2023.
The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 19 September 2023 where Heads of State and Government will gather at UN Headquarters to review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and provide high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to the target year of 2030 for achieving the Goals.
As part of his schedule in New York, Bio is expected to meet the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Asad Ahmad Khan KC who extended an invitation to the President earlier in August. Although the detail of the meeting is not particularly clear, the ICC said their “Office attaches great importance to this meeting and hopes its request can be accommodated.”
Sierra Leone’s Information Minister, Chernor Bah said the invitation is to “discuss Sierra Leone’s leadership with regard to matters related to the ICC” and the country’s “tenure as non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.”
Since the conclusion of the June 24, 2023, presidential elections, Sierra Leone has been embroiled in a heated political situation after the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) boycotted governance in protest of the alleged irregularities and violations of the electoral procedures.
The United States through the spokesperson, Mathew Miller, also raised concerns about irregularities in the election results announced by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL). The department, in its statement from July 24, voiced its unease over accounts of threats, including those of a lethal nature, directed at local and international observers, civil society groups, and election commission members.
It is not particularly clear as at press time if the invitation by the ICC prosecutor is connected to the recent elections.
Leh God. Makes u nor cam again.
Killer 😭😭
Pls go out, and u will be killed too. U unpeaceful people.
What’s comes around surly goes around when you think you smart tomorrow you will know who is who. may the innocent blood you lead to deaths should be on your answers to results in fail and you will not come again RIp bio and your useless wife. I pray that you are trap by the ICC law
Never to be return bio
Never to be return bio
Bio may Allah almighty guide and protect you and return safely Aamin
Allah please fight for us God time is the best for every purpose
May the Lord guide and protect you through out both the ICC and the UN general assembly…. We are waiting to receive you with a new agenda
Bio the killer .
Stupid APC, people
Safe journey boys. The end shall justify the means.
May you be found wanting and end up in the ICC trap just as Charles Taylor
Let’s justify the truth from this bastard
Inshallah you will not return bio, I pray for you to be trapped in the ICC court.
Hmm!
With these speech from the ICC “office attaches great importance in this meeting and hopes it request can be accommodated”
I don’t think if that criminal Bio will have to come back
Adebayor, Ernest, Samura and the rest of Apcians may God descend sicknesses on you that you people will not enjoyed the remain stolen money, you will never have peace in ur live.
His Excellency go fort peace and come home safely you’re blessed, May God continues to opens ways for you.
He will deliver a statement of importance, that in the end; will benefit the people of Sierra leone. We love you President Bio……
Never bio the killer return again Ameen
Bye bye 👋 Maada Bio
It very nice to attend to calls, call is call it doesn’t matter what the call is for
May Almighty Allah punish you there bio the killer
Safe trip our darling and most loving president ever in the history of Sierra Leone. We love and appreciate your efforts in ensuring that this country compete with other countries around the world in terms of development. Keep representing us well…and may Allah continue to bless you and govern us well through your tenure in office… 🤍🇸🇱💪🏽
U’ll never come back I assure you that.
May God fight for the people of mama Salone for the evil did of Bio and his stupid supporters 🙏
Let the killer (Bio) don’t come again in peace.
What’s comes out of our mouths is what God will use to judge as His words say, judge not so that you will not be judged so I wonder why people are saying evil things even when things are clear here. Are you happy for innocent lives to be shed? SLPP or APC let’s put party aside and think Sierra Leone
As for me, may Allah Reval the truth.only the truth can set up free
May the Innocence blood shed by you fight against you in Jesus name.
May you not come again bio.
His excellency the president Julius Maada Bio ,you are blessed may Jehovah God favour you in that meeting,may his protective hands be over you.
I decree n declare you safe trip to n from in Jesus mighty name.
As Bio said earlier that he has opened the political space and that he will not kill again let the innocent blood of all those that he has killed troubles you in the ICC. I