Maada Bio, the man who stole the June 24, 2023, elections, is noted for running away from international visitors any time they arrive for talks pertaining to the 2023 Tripartite Agreement and the political transition of power. (Photo: Moral guarantors and the traitorous SLPP/APC stakeholders).

But last week, the cheating AWOL boss, Maada Bio, resorted to his dirty trick again and wanted to flee the country as consultations were going on between the international moral guarantors and the key internal and external stakeholders in Sierra Leone.

The tight five-day schedule (April 13-17, 2026) for the follow-up mission of the ECOWAS, Commonwealth and United Nations representatives puts Maada Bio on day four to meet with the moral guarantors, but he had absconded to Kenema on the first day of their arrival. (Photos: Tough UNOWAS Rep Barrie Freeman and nonsense Commonwealth Rep Tanmaya Lal).

AWOL merchant Bio was hiding in Kenema from the 2nd and third days when his absence in Freetown was visibly noticed by the vigilance of the international community. “Where is he? He is not in Freetown,” an inquisitive diplomat queried the whereabouts of the runaway Bio.

Further inquiry showed that the electoral thief, Maada Bio, was in Kenema in preparation to leave the country. It is still not clear if Bio was planning to flee through Liberia or return clandestinely to Freetown to fly out of the country.

Thankfully, he was caught pants down after a top-level telephone call from New York forced the cowardly Bio to return immediately to Freetown on the third day and on the fourth day, the meeting between him and the moral guarantors was held at State House. (Photo: Aja Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang, Ms Freeman and Mr Lal).

Bio’s reluctant return to Freetown had its own devastating consequence because, along the way, his erratic convoy hit and killed a young man selling bananas in the 4-Mile community. Eyewitnesses say that Maada Bio’s convoy never stopped but sped off without any care for the poor victim.

It was a shameful U-turn for the illegitimate President Bio, who had planned to skip the meeting centred on the full implementation of the 84 and 1 recommendations. Bio’s plan for AWOL backfired big time.

The moral guarantors comprising ECOWAS, the Commonwealth and the United Nations, led by the Gambian diplomat and former Vice President Aja Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang, had fruitful consultations with all the stakeholders. (Photos: AWOL Bio and President-elect Dr Samura Kamara, right).

The moral guarantors were led by the doubtful ECOWAS representative, Aja Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang; Ms Barrie Freeman of the United States was appointed in 2024 as the new Deputy Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS).

The other top moral guarantor representing the Commonwealth was the Indian diplomat Mr Tanmaya Lal, Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations. Mr John Azuma, the Resident Representative in Sierra Leone for ECOWAS, was another top moral guarantor.

The representative who represented the United Nations was the top Burundi diplomat, Madam Seraphine Wakana, the UN Resident Coordinator for Sierra Leone. And there were other representatives, local and international, during the five-day consultation. Shame on Bio for trying to dodge again.