ECOWAS soldiers and US Marines have professionally carried out these high-level mopping-up operations to collect the arms and ammunition from the Sierra Leone Army & Police Officers and other citizens, primarily to secure the country. (Photo: President-Elect Dr Samura Kamara).

And secretly, these international forces have been digging up holes in specific locations in Sierra Leone where deadly weapons are buried for a rainy day by Julius Maada Bio’s violent security Kamajor forces. Many weapons have been recently discovered.

Recently, people were going around Freetown announcing that anyone with guns should hand them over. What was the intention of illegal President Bio when they secretly buried arms in different sites in the country? Bio had bad plans to use his security forces to overthrow Dr Samura Kamara’s regime after the transfer of power.

The last stages of the peaceful democratic transition of power are very close as the mopping up of the hidden SLPP Kamajor weapons and the tightening of the fragile security sector nationwide move smoothly. (Photo: Maada Bio and his Chief of Staff General Idara Bangura).

The internal and external security forces supervise and monitor the mopping-up operations going on around the country to secure the country before the peaceful democratic transition of power is complete very soon to Dr Samura Kamara, who got 57.15% of votes in 2023 polls.

There have been successful house-cleaning exercises in the country where a large cache of arms and ammunition has been found hidden in large holes by the vigilance of the ECOWAS soldiers together with the Marine forces.

The latest discovery of dangerous weapons kept by Bio’s Kamajors happened in the south of the country and has panicked the SLPP/Paopas. Reports say early this week many weapons were dug up in areas in the southeast, the SLPP strongholds in areas where vocational schools were scheduled to be built.

But intelligence tip-off alerted the foreign forces and, with the help of local security, checked the sites where digging for the arms and ammunition was done, much to the delight of patriotic citizens. The discovery of the hidden weapons is a clear indication that the transfer of power is very close.

This is because the only holdup now for the peaceful transition to occur is to secure the country watertight before Bio hands over power to Dr Samura Kamara. Reports say Bio has plans to counterattack President-Elect Dr Samura Kamara when he occupies the State House.