This is because Bio’s powers are slipping away. As for the transfer of power, the only holdup now is the fragility of the security situation in the country. ECOWAS and UNOWAS are poised to tighten the security situation first and foremost before the transition of power occurs. (Photo: ECOWAS Chair Tinubu and ECOWAS President Omar Allieu Touray, right).

After staying home for nearly three months without travelling abroad due to the tightening of the travel ban, the embattled and illegal President Maada Bio has suddenly started feeling the pinch that power is slipping away as his usually bloated travel manifest list has been cut down to size.

The unrecognised President Bio has since then travelled with a very small entourage but, one cannot even call it an entourage anymore, because of the smallness of his delegation. And frankly, Bio only travels with his wife and ADC today. (Photo: UNOWAS Chief Santos Simao and AU President Faki, right).

During Bio’s first visit abroad to Scotland recently after his longest spell staying at home, Maada Bio travelled to meet King Charles 111 with his wife Fatima Jabbe Bio and his ADC and another official only. They were four in all plus the four pilots which made it eight in total.

That is how tiny Bio’s travel list has reduced in recent months. This is unlike the massive manifest travel list he used to have in previous travels numbering around 30 to 50 per diem travellers. It means that Bio’s power has diminished greatly thanks to the travel sanctions imposed on him by the international community.

That is why Sierra Leoneans should be optimistic that transfer of power is underway and it will happen very shortly when the country is properly secured. Presently, ECOWAS and UNOWAS are working tirelessly to improve the security in the country before the President-Elect, Dr Samura Kamara, is inaugurated.