This vital stage of the Tripartite process will commence in Freetown, with experts from the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commission ECONEC responsible for elections monitoring in the West African sub-region are present. Reports have confirmed that the meeting between the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone’s ECSL and ECONEC will last for two days.

Even though ECSL is downplaying the seriousness of their guilt by saying the meeting today and tomorrow is a mere ‘Regional Symposium & General Assembly’ meeting, keen followers of the Tripartite Committee process know the vitality of this meeting as it is more than meets the eye. In short, it is the much heralded ‘Actionable and Implementable’ phase in action.

This is a significant stage of the implementation of the 84 Recommendations including the four contentious issues also known as divergent areas submitted by the highly polluted and divided main opposition APC party led by the patriotic leader Dr Samura Kamara who is being maligned by his own APC executives widely dubbed as traitors to the voters. (Photos: Dr Samura Kamara and Maada Bio).

Today’s development brings to mind the almighty Resolution 3 of the Peace Dialogue signed last year, which clearly touched on the fraudulent June 24, 2023 elections among other electoral processes. It was succinct that Dr Samura Kamara won last year’s polls but was publicly stolen by the incumbent Julius Maada Bio with the help of the crooked ECSL.

Both national and international institutions criticised ECSL Chief Electoral Returning Officer Mohamed Kenewui Konneh and his corrupt ECSL cronies describing the outcome of the polls as not free, not fair, not credible, not peaceful, not transparent and not accountable. Fierce criticisms particularly came from the ECOWAS Elections Observer Misson.

Other critics include the African Union Elections Observers, the European Union Elections Mission, the Carter Center and the National Elections Watch NEW and so on. As a result, Maada Bio has not received any congratulatory messages from world leaders and thereby crippling the Bio presidency of financial and moral assistance. Sierra Leone is now bankrupt. (Photo: Mohamed Konneh is the most corrupt Electoral Commissioner in history).

This current situation has exacerbated the hard times for most citizens. Tripartite is now the only hope for electoral justice to occur and, thanks to the United Nations Security Council, ECOWAS has been given the mandate to restore democracy in Sierra Leone. The meeting today is part of the implementation stage where ECSL will be grilled to answer to pertinent questions as to how they arrived at declaring last year’s elections.

Mohamed Konneh and his corrupt commissioners are in hot waters for what has happened since June 24, 2023 polls. And Maada Bio has consistently said he should not be blamed as he was declared president by ECSL, which gives the impression that he is not at fault, even though everyone knows that Bio is the brain behind the elections fraud. That is why the ball is in the court of Mr Konneh.

Sierra Leone electorates are today welcoming ECONEC and urged them to grill ECSL as voters are yearning for electoral justice as soon as possible to prevent an upheaval that would retrogress the country into a new bloody civil war in Sierra Leone. The two day’s meeting is important to achieve democracy and constitutional rule.

The press release by ECSL dated November 6, 2024 stated: “ECLS and ECONEC will meet from Monday 11 Nov to Tuesday 12 Nov, 2024 at the Radisson Blu Mammy Yoko Hotel, Aberdeen in Freetown. The theme for the meeting is – The role of Electoral Management Bodies is promoting information integrity, as a vital component in safeguarding electoral processes.” Konneh as President of ECONEC and chairing the meeting makes no difference.