What is the latest blow all about? It is the latest action taken against Maada Bio by the EU countries, which have unanimously agreed to impose an immediate travel embargo on him and his illegitimate SLPP/Paopa officials. This is happening amid a power transfer which is at hand. (Photo: EU headquarters in Brussels).

There are two primary reasons for this action against poor Maada Bio. No surprise that AWOL chief Bio is now stuck in the country for weeks now. He is only moving from one place to another within Sierra Leone, rather than his usual overseas travels.

This is a significant development in diplomatic relations between the EU and Bio’s Sierra Leone, and one that will plunge the Bio administration into the final abyss and wilderness. It is no small feat for 27 countries in the EU to tighten the screws on a small, suffering nation. (Photos: Maada Bio under pressure and President-elect Dr Samura Kamara waiting for his power).

Primarily, the EU tightens the bolts and nuts on Bio’s regime for two main reasons. First, the broad daylight robbery of the June 24, 2023 general and presidential elections, which Dr Samura Kamara won but was stolen by Bio and his SLPP/APC cronies.

Secondly, the EU travel ban order was imposed on Bio because of the reluctance of the Bio regime to extradite Europe’s most wanted drug fugitive, Joseph Leijdekker aka Omar Sheriff, to the Netherlands from Sierra Leone, where he is currently given government protection.

The fact that Maada Bio has so far refused to hand over power peacefully to the President-elect Dr Samura Kamara, who has legitimately produced his own results to prove his victory, has left the EU countries with no alternative but to put travel sanctions on him.

The travel-mad Maada Bio has not been out of Sierra Leone to Western countries for a while now. Very strange indeed. The travel ban may likely be the main reason amid recent reports of a visa ban also imposed on Sierra Leone by the EU and the UK. (Photos: Bolle Jos posed with Bio’s daughter Agnes. And EU envoy in Sierra Leone, Jacek Jankowski, centre).

Sierra Leoneans have absolutely and happily welcomed the EU action against Bio, who has committed three major crimes, namely, crimes against humanity, electoral thievery of the 2023 polls and aiding the Dutch drug baron Jos Leijdekker, who has turned Sierra Leone into the hub of transhipment of world drugs.

It is not clear when the travel ban imposed on Bio and his cohorts will take effect, but what is clear is the fact that it is going to happen amid the growing drugs trade by Bolle Jos worldwide and in Liberia, where the FBI is leading the investigations of drug trafficking.

And Sierra Leone, being the hub of the narcotics trade in West Africa and beyond, is the next focal point where the US investigators will concentrate to nip those importing and exporting the illicit drugs, namely cocaine, tramadol, Kush, powder, etc., in the bud.

Suffering Sierra Leoneans are demanding their 2023 electoral mandate restored without delay and have expressed delight that the international partners are taking punitive action against the cocaine Bio regime and to transfer power to the president-elect Dr Samura Kamara.