And despite the illegal President Bio bluntly refusing to take telephone calls from one of the top ECOWAS Chief of Defence Staff (name withheld) regarding the arrival of the Reconnaissance Team, the ECOWAS Commission is determined to arrive on Sunday September 15, 2024 and to execute their mandate according to the time frame given to the ECOWAS Heads of States by the United Nations Security Council.

Sources from Abuja, the head office of ECOWAS have confirmed that the Commission has rejected outright the two main requests made by the illegal President Bio. The Bio requests are firstly, ECOWAS should reduce the number of Troops coming to Sierra Leone from 5,000 in Lungi and 1,200 in Freetown to a mere 300 soldiers in total. And secondly, Bio wants ECOWAS to deploy only in Lungi and not in the capital Freetown. (Photo: ECOWAS Chairman President Ahmed Tinubu).

What is the Reconnaissance Team? According to Wikipedia, military reconnaissance often means that teams gather information about enemy areas, armed groups, or foreign nations’ military forces and activities. They use stealthy methods to gather information, such as moving on foot or from vehicles, and can provide information to commanders 24 hours a day. The final recon of ECOWAS Troops has been delayed because of Maada Bio’s foot dragging.

The electoral thief Maada Bio has made this same requests a few months ago when he wrote to the ECOWAS Commission about the reduction of the ECOWAS contingents and to make sure ECOWAS only deploys troops in Lungi and not in Freetown. The jittery Maada Bio does not want foreign soldiers inside the capital Freetown close to State House. The strategic and tactical positioning of the troops has unsettled and embarrassed Bio. (Photo: Dr Samura Kamara).

And despite Bio’s recent letter written to ECOWAS making the same requests, the Commission has flatly refused to comply. “Our ECOWAS Forces will be deployed as planned at the Lungi Depot and the three chosen sites in Freetown namely Kerry Town, Hastings Airfields and Murray Town/Aberdeen axis,” the one of the key sources in Abuja confirmed. This latest rejection by ECOWAS has punctured the little remaining hope for Maada Bio.

The illegitimate Sierra Leone President Maada Bio is now finally aware that the ECOWAS Forces are coming to remove him from power. This salient fact is now clear as crystal to the electoral thief Maada Bio who had all along underestimated the resilience of the UN Security Council and the ECOWAS Commission to carry the Tripartite Committee mandate. (Photo: Sierra Leone Chief of Defence Staff Lt. Gen Patrick Lavahun).

Panic-stricken Maada Bio is still refusing to accept the reality of the ECOWAS deployments. Last month, Maada Bio reportedly failed to give the green light for the ECOWAS Reconnaissance Team to land in Sierra Leone to inspect the various sites in Lungi, Murray Town/Aberdeen axis, Hastings Airfields and Kerry Town. The reconnaissance of the tactical sites should have happened on August 27.

Bio did not agree for the Reconnaissance Team but had the audacity to ask for the reduction of the Troops meant for Freetown from 5,000 in Lungi and 1,200 in Freetown to a mere 300 soldiers. Bio also requested that ECOWAS should change the mandate from providing security and restoration of constitutional rule to that of training services. Today, Maada Bio is in a dilemma. He is afraid to tell his gullible SLPP supporters that his time as President of Sierra Leone is over.

Amid the ups and downs of the imminent arrival of the ECOWAS soldiers this weekend, there is information coming from inside the SLPP camp that panic and jitters have lumbered in making many of his ministers to stop going to offices at Youyi Building in Freetown. The regime has lost track as bankruptcy sets because of the global financial sanctions imposed after the fraudulent June 24, 2023 elections.