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British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone – Lisa Chesney, when you foreign diplomats on whom so much is expected remain so naive and hypocritical, that is why Africa will never grow tired of producing despicable dictators and tyrants like Maada Bio.
How can you get so easily fooled by Maada Bio’s fake promises of electoral reforms?
First of all, you do not put the cart before the horse. What President Bio ‘s Elections Commission first needs to do is provide what international elections observer groups, U.S, the European Union (EU) and international stakeholders and moral guarantors of peace, security , democracy and good governance are demanding disaggregated results from the polling stations as recorded in Results and Reconciliation Forms (RRFs) to show how the final elections results were determined in what is definitely a rigged electoral process. Until Maada Bio can produce such evidence, he cannot talk about electoral reforms.
After thumbing his ugly nose at you and refused to produce the disaggregated results from the polling stations, you had the temerity to blink first and pay a courtesy call on Bio’s new Foreign Minister, Timothy Kabba. To me, this sounded like compromising your principles and integrity.
After Maada Bio had stolen our elections and while, with impunity, he is sitting on top of it, it was not the right time for a diplomatic visit short of telling him to do the right thing, if you are serious about seeing democracy prevail in Sierra Leone.
The right thing would have been continuing to insist that the ECSL produce the disaggregated results from the polling stations. Without that, Maada Bio ‘s Foreign Minister did not deserve a courtesy call from you, Madam. And did the government media report it right that you were praising him for electoral reforms? How can you be so naive?
What kind of diplomacy is Britain practicing in Sierra Leone? A diplomacy of compromising with electoral fraud, coups through blatant elections thieving and undemocratic change of governments? And you expect Sierra Leone to take a credible place among the community of nations?
The idea you have promoted is that you do not care for the working of the constitution and the rule of law in Sierra Leone, just what the nebulous Maada Bio needs to continue trashing the country.
But why should we be surprised, Lisa? Your country, Britain, imposed Maada Bio on us in 2018, thanks to the surreptitious dealings of the then High Commissioner, Guy Warrington. You could very well be continuing the policies of Guy Warrington.
Some of us who know you western diplomats for your hypocrisy and double standards, l knew it was just a matter of time before you blinked after Bio started pulling wool over your eyes . It is a shame.
I am even more ashamed for you, reading that you did stress Britain’s neutrality in Sierra Leone’s politics. What message was that? When did Britain become a neutral partner in Sierra Leone’s chequered politics?
That our former colonial masters who actually still hold a lot of the aces and determine much more the economic direction our nation goes would do nothing to teach President Bio a lesson for criminally stealing the Sierra Leone elections? If that happens, Lisa, you have joined forces with President Bio to destroy Sierra Leone.
Come on Lisa. You know that President Bio floating an idea of electoral reforms after stealing the June 24 elections is a criminal ruse. You are too smart to fall for such gimmicks. By your educational standard and diplomatic training, you have been able to read between the lines that Bio’s promise is just deception to paper over his criminal act.
You did not owe the Bio government a courtesy call. They owed you one. By going to see them while they are unlawfully holding hostage the people’s mandate and you commending Bio for his fake promise of electoral reforms, you have sent the wrong message to this government that all is well, after all, and to the people of Sierra Leone that they cannot depend on your government to help Bio respect democracy, the law and the constitution in their country. Knowing lawless President Bio for his spirit of impunity, you will be encouraging him to wax worse.
Let it not be what some of us are thinking, that the British government would ultimately let Maada Bio get away with criminality and destroy democracy and constitutional civility and resume normal relations with him. I am very confident that you are aware of the dangerous precedent you would set in so doing.
Maada Bio deserves to be isolated by your government for committing a criminal act against the people of Sierra Leone, the constitution and indeed the world political order. We demand no less from you, especially when we know that it is your budget support and economic aid that keep our nation’s head above waters.
You cannot botch it this time. If you do, the people of Sierra Leone will hold Britain accountable for any subsequent chaos and for the evil going on in our country under this fascist government. We are watching.
Continue to explain we are listening
That is the language of babies, they cry for whatever be it good or bad. You are talking to a diplomat as if you are mates.
So you are expecting a whole government to bow before an ordinary diplomat like Chisney. You are no respecter of any bilateral relationship or agreement. When your government unlawfully overthrow a country’s vice president- Chief Sam Sumana, when a ruling was given by the ECOWAS court you boastfully said that you are not under ECOWAS rule. Now you are crying like babies.
Kabs Kanu by your name we know who you are. Just go on crying and Sierra Leone is moving.
I don’t know which school some of you attended. You really think Britain or some western power determines the outcome of our elections? An election that was over 90% funded by the government of Sierra Leone? Even the APC has refused to publish their data. If they think they won the elections, why not publish their own data. Even the APC electoral commissioner (Marcella Samba’s) data puts Bio far ahead of Samura. So I don’t know which data you’re relying on to think that Bio stole the elections. You should come with your data to prove that the elections were rigged. Until then, just shot up and continue to live like a slave dependent on his master for survival. That’s what you are!
Just for education purposes, there is no law that says ECSL should publish disaggregated data. So it remains their prerogative to do so or not. No APC or APC operative nor even any development partner can compel ECSL to do so. They’re acting constitutionally. If you think otherwise, take them to court.
You talked about world political order, maybe your eyes are blind to the real world political order. So if Wuna want, Wuna boycott Salone because Parliament small. Na wudat tros money for campaign losis. You APC party is unpatriotic. People voted for their reps and your party says they shouldn’t go to parliament. Is that the love you people claim to have for this country and the people you claim to represent? You’ll remain in permanent opposition if you fail to go to parliament. A food for thought.
Lastly, we are an independent country and no body tells us how to conduct our elections, at least not the one we funded. So stop dreaming and start working to achieve realistic goals.
Just a couple of months, the EU will shame you for their immediate actions
At first I found your joke funny but am now getting pity on you my brother God has already your decide your fate for the next five years you better accept it and move on
The truth is what you said to the nonsensical foolish diplomat who doesn’t know her right and left… She made her self so cheap and funny with grade 0%
Am so sorry to tell you that you are very stupid and nonsensical. Who do you think you are? With your rude context to a hierarchical diplomat. Those A.p.cians do not have Sierra Leone at heart because if they do, they should have accept the June 24 election results and support to gather ideas on how to develop the country, instead crying Helter skelter like a new born baby smh. Are they expecting the international organizations to sideline his Excellency? Such will never happen because Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 is not dependent to any county. Respect your self and stop being dramatic over creating issues that make no sense. Mind your words next time and stop pognosing to issues that might get you depression. Period!
Maada Bio is a thief and thug and needs to be prosecuted for stealing our election and democracy. These western partners are not doing anything about it anymore because Maada Bio promised them shares of our natural resources.