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Your Excellency,
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a Bishop of the Most High God, a diplomat of peace, and a former Member of Parliament of this beloved nation, I write to you with the utmost respect, humility, and a heavy heart. On the sacred day of April 27th, when Sierra Leone marked another year of her hard-won independence, you—our constitutional Fountain of Honour—were absent from the soil that birthed your mandate, attending instead the funeral of His Holiness the Pope.
While the passing of the Pope is indeed significant to the global Christian family, and diplomatic courtesy has its value in global relations, I respectfully submit that your absence from our national Independence Day celebration has caused disquiet among many faithful citizens. It is a matter not of condemnation, but of reflection—an opportunity to weigh the balance between our duty to the world and our sacred responsibility at home.
As it is written in the Gospel according to Luke 9:60, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” The message of this verse is not one of dishonor to the dead but a call to discern spiritual priority. The living must always be prioritized over the dead. In our national context, the living people of Sierra Leone—struggling with hardship, poverty, insecurity, and division—deserve to see their leader at home, standing with them, especially on the most sacred day of our national calendar.
Your presence on Independence Day is not ceremonial alone—it is a sacrament of leadership, a national reassurance that unity, patriotism, and hope are alive and well. As the shepherd of the nation, your physical and spiritual presence sends a message far more powerful than any words ever could.
I pray you will receive this letter in the spirit of love and constructive rebuke. As a bishop, I am bound to speak truth to power with compassion. As a former parliamentarian, I understand the weight of state obligations. And as a servant of God, I entreat you to reflect prayerfully on the legacy you are building for this nation.
May God grant you wisdom to govern with justice, courage to lead with integrity, and humility to prioritize the people of Sierra Leone above all foreign allegiances.
In faith, hope, and national love,
Hon. Amb. Bishop Dr Alimamy Coleson Turay
Bishop & Servant of God,
Diplomat of Peace
Former Member of Parliament
Well said, Bishop.
A total disrespect for our country, those that fought for our freedom and unpatriotic.
We are in a cross road, Sierra Leoneans will think before they elect someone to that sacred office, in the future. I hope.
I heard the President celebrating European 💶 Union support for our development project on an Independent day statement.
The Pastor who wrote the letter to this monster called Maada Bio is wasting his time. He hasn’t got any sense of patriotism, compassion, empathy, and nationalism. Maada Bio is NOT Sierra Leonean at all. A man who hasn’t given anything to a country He claimed was born. Throughout his life, it’s has been Sierra Leone who looked after this rascal, as he abuses every opportunity along the way looting the country’s resources, something he has been doing since 1996 when he looted $18M and left the country for Ghana, the country of his father. He needs to pack his bags and leave right now. He is more of a curse than a blessing to Sierra Leone.
Maada Bio my dear SLPP president has lost direction. His love for flying has taken this country backwards
Simply tell the world it’s my country’s independent day celebration and everyone will understand. This is a gross neglect of national duty
A political buffoon turned pastor. Please go back into politics because your pastoral views are heavily clouded by politics. The APC has rejected you because they saw no value in you. Instead of sitting down quietly, you want to seek relevance in the church. Christianity is not your calling. You becoming a pastor is like putting a square peg in a round hole.
Let’s keep praying for our leader for divine direction and not complaining, all they need from us is prayer…