Reports say that the day after the flight landed without passengers, workers at the airport were seen preparing a fitting send-off for the departing passengers. Observers saw the spreading of the red carpet, usually meant for dignitaries. Julius Maada Bio was expected to fly out. (Photo: Airborne Bio no longer flying like before).

A few hours later, eyewitnesses at the airport saw the same staff removing the red carpet from the airport tarmac. It was folded and taken away. The action of spreading and removing the red carpet within hours in dubious circumstances shocked the airport workers.

The airport workers were primarily shocked because no departures were made despite the red carpet being laid out. The workers said it was strange to see the red carpet folded without being used. Investigations have now confirmed that the red carpet was for the departure of the illegal president Bio.

That departure never took place. More shocking. The red carpet disappeared faster than it was laid out. It is odd indeed. Now, it has emerged that a high-level diplomatic call was made that ordered the illegal Bio to stop his mysterious travel abroad. (Photo: ECOWAS Chairman President Bassirou Faye of Senegal and President-elect Dr Samura Kamara).

What was its destination? No one knows where Maada Bio was planning to go. Even though information says Bio wanted to sneak into Ghana. For what reason, no one knows. Whatever the circumstances, the red carpet drama has left many keen observers baffled.

As we go to press, it is clear that Maada Bio is still hiding in Sierra Leone despite rumours that suggest that he is planning to visit New York for the United Nations General Assembly UNGA summit this month.

It remains to be seen if the illegal president Bio will attend the UN conference. This is coming at a time when the travel-mad Maada Bio has not travelled out of Sierra Leone for over two months now. Why? Have the US, EU, and UK travel bans started biting Maada Bio’s regime?

Sources have intimated that Maada Bio is afraid of flying out of the country for fear that he may be arrested and face prosecution for crimes against humanity, for 2023 electoral fraud, and, most importantly, for aiding and abetting drug trafficking nationally and internationally.