Eyewitnesses could not understand what was going on at the Lungi International Airport yesterday morning when they heard sporadic gunshots ricochet in the peaceful Lungi sky, reminiscent of the eleven years of bloody civil war (1991-2002). (Photo: Bio is playing mind games to use force to stay in power, but he has already failed).

Thankfully, it was not a civil war on Friday, September 19, 2025, at Lungi Airport, but what took place was the deafening noise from the gunshots that reverberated in the Airport vicinity primarily because of Maada Bio’s rebel tactics to scare people to protect his travel.

Sources say Maada Bio arrived at dawn at Lungi to board his private jet to the USA, but he came with his ragtag Kamajor soldiers to provide security for him and to make sure no one, local or foreign, would obstruct his travel plans.

Coward Bio was scared that foreign security could stop or delay him from leaving the country, as happened last month when his UK-bound flight was delayed for over 16 hours by foreign security officials. They eventually escorted Bio to and from Britain, then. (Photo: President-Elect Dr Samura Kamara to be sworn in shortly).

Bio did not want the same delay to strike twice. So, he deployed his Kamajor soldiers at Lungi Airport yesterday morning to frighten people. Amid the melee, Bio was able to board the flight with so much of his luggage that it had never been seen in the presidential history of the airport.

Was Bio deserting his SLPP/Paopa people as he did in 1996 when he told his NPRC soldiers white lies about ‘Peace Before Elections’ but secretly left the country, leaving his soldiers disappointed? Friday’s shooting scare tactics worked as people were taken aback in Lungi.

Whatever Bio does now to play mind games means nothing as far as the transition of power is concerned. Bio is in the USA, not as president but as ECOWAS chairman. Even that would not permit him to address the UN Summit, the crème de la crème of the UN body.