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I will never stop stressing that RESTITUTION – Putting right the wrongs that have been committed, should be the first step towards genuine peace and reconciliation in any society or situation.
We all want peace and reconciliation in our motherland because it is the only route to national reintegration and national development. But we must go about them the right way that is pleasing and satisfying to all concerned.
Asking for peace and reconciliation with an aggrieved man whose ox you have stolen (Without first returning the ox) is hypocritical; it is the height of bullying and impunity. You are wilfully holding on to my ox and asking me to make peace with you? Are you serious? Are you really sober? What sane person ever does that?
President Maada Bio upset the political apple cart in Sierra Leone. He openly and brazenly robbed not only the citizens of the land by rigging the recent elections and imposing himself in power. He also hurt the stakeholders who provide the funds, logistics and necessary resources to stop our country from sinking into the miry pool of economic destruction, abject poverty and suffering.
By boldly and criminally stealing the mandate of the people, President Bio has also angered the nations and organizations we refer to as the moral guarantors of peace and security. The people trusted with the responsibility to ensure that we do not go back to war as we did in the 1990s , a bloody, deadly and costly war that we have still not fully recovered from.
According to a paper on progress update on the strategic objectives of the U.S government, “The United States supports the expansion of democracy abroad because countries with freely elected, accountable governments contribute to a freer, more prosperous, and peaceful world. Democracies are our strongest partners on security, trade, energy, and the environment, in peace and conflict.”
Rigging an election is an illegal interference with the process of the election that robs the people of their constitutional mandate to decide whom they want to govern them, according to Moses Obisike in his book “Electoral Malpractice and Political Development in Nigeria” (2022).
President Bio and his hoodlums in the Elections Commission of Sierra Leone criminally changed the figures on the Result and Reconciliation Forms ( RRFs ) where the real votes from all the polling stations were recorded, a very dumb and asinine act, given that after the counting of the votes in the polling stations, elections observers, stakeholders and representatives of all the political parties are given copies of these forms. They knew the outcome of the elections already from these RRFs.
Only people with their heads in the wrong place would go and change the figures in the tallying process to produce a different outcome and then expect the result to be accepted, hook, line and sinker. It is worse than broad daylight robbery.
Consequently, the robbed citizens, the cheated opposition and its supporters , local and international Elections observers and the international stakeholders and moral guarantors are all annoyed with the Elections Commission and the SLPP government.
The best way to handle this problem is to put things back in their right place. If President Bio is sure of himself and his public boasts and posturing that he can defeat the opposition APC at all times, he must either order a rerun of the elections or the recounting of the votes, this time by an independent international organization that will ensure transparency, neutrality and credibility.
President Bio cannot insult the intelligence of the people and the international community with such brazen criminality and then start calling for peace and reconciliation. Things do not work like that. As long as all parties remain aggrieved and hurt, any such peace and reconciliation will be fake and hypocritical, and a recipe for chaos in the future.
Political historians have recorded that many wars in Africa were preceded by rigged elections. We in the media and international stakeholders and moral guarantors are trying to avoid that scenario being replayed in Sierra Leone.
I totally agree with this writer… hypocrisy is gradually taking us back to the dark old days
Bio won the election legitimately
I don’t think if the person who wrote this article is a patriot, which vote the incumbent president stole? You as opposition didn’t solved your assignment well,you where busy condemning since 2018 general election, you rebel against every laws table in Parliament. There was deep division in your party, abusing yourselves here and there and intimidating sensible people in your party. Most of your formal ministers and even vice president crossed over the incumbent. You allow your opponent share hugely votes in your stronghold. Stop this kind of senseless blame game, this indicated that APC party is not good for our country. Similar concerned you are raising today SLPP raised it’s in two consecutive period,but the still work with the elsewhere president. That clarify how patriot SLPP are.
Peace we want in Mama Salone .please we don’t want to go back to the bush we need free, fear and credible election for better Mama Salone
Rerun of Election?, this writer is not okay, you expect us to return back into election process to put the country into standstill, that shows that everything you guys are fighting for us for your own interests, let the Man accept the results and move on, Bio got a lot of space into your strongholds and you failed to regain Kono district because you think Freetown and Bombali will get you to state House, the mentality of APC is going to keep them into opposition for a long period of time, those days has gone that you will hold power on Radical politics trick, keep on crying 😭 crying 😭 babies with no good message throughout their campaign, you’re bound to fail again if you keep on relying on social media propaganda News from your inner circle
Note: H.E.Bio is going to rule this country for the next five years and if you’re dreaming of your so called International Community to reap the Presidency from this Regime then you guys are dreaming, I tap you up from it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Before you continue attacking Bio of stealing the election, why can’t you and your party take those RRFs that were given to you at the polling stations, tally them on spreadsheet, come up with the true result and take them to court?
I know you cannot do that because you prefer to continue fooling your voters and sympathisers after your disgraced defeat.
You people have to take a chill-pill and big-up.
The truth is better but it’s sweet to tell you that there’s enough for everyone need in Sierra Leone but not enough for everyone Greed in Sierra Leone I believe African development is beginning to take it formulated fom and first stop is Sierra Leone so help us Almighty Allah shower down down your blessings on the land of milk and honey
Dark old days you say?, then we’re waiting for it !!!
You’ve said it all my brother 👍
The writer is not honest, he is a member of the APC . These are the people that are creating problems in Sierra Leone.
What will dishonesty pay you?
APC, politics of deceit is the greatest enemy pulling you down. First accept that the Stevens democracy has no space this modern era. Stop parading the international community. Confess the challenges of your party to your coconut head supporters. Free them from hostage.
I want to commend the Sierra Loaded for the outstanding news coverage. Keep it up.
However, Mr. writer, next time be apolitical in your report. This is purely attack on the president and his government. You’ve allowed your anger to take over you and that is bad on your sides as a reporter. Every bit of your message shows the grievances you have towards the subject and his subordinates. Please, let focus on the progressiveness of the matters and the other way round.
As citizens of this country, let accept the results and forge ahead. Remember, power is from Allah nor matter how you achieved it. Wether you achieved it genuinely or not, the fact remains that it’s destined that you’ll attain it at a certain point in life, just the process towards achieving it from your side might say otherwise. If you’re genuine, you’ll receive the good pay and if you weren’t genuine, you’ll still meet the Almighty Allah because to him is the final return. Thank you.
I can see catastrophe looming in Sierra Leone. We’re too quick to forget what happened during the ten years bloody war. Bio called himself father of democracy but yet gradually plunging our country into a communist state. This is a crime and a direct recipe for war in any country. Bio has usup the court, police and the military. These independent institutions are now tied to his apron and fully at his beck and cord. How can APC goes to court knowing fully what will be the end result due to past experiences after 2018 elections when Bio unconstitutionally took ten MP seats from APC and gave them to SLPP. The elections have been rigged even before conducted by a stupid orchestrated plan that even the blind can see. Bio and Konneh are weak mentally, that’s why the brought up a plan that even an uneducated person can understand when the stole the elections. Bio is an illegitimate president and he knows it himself.
Election goes for winners take all Bio has won election let him take everything parliament state house him take all