While most Sierra Leoneans cannot afford a single decent meal a day due to untold hardship and rife corruption, the illegal Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio and his family are living in opulence and splendour through rampant usurpation of resources in high places. (Photo: Fatima sent her and son, Montana, to smuggle the cash).

It is therefore unsurprising that Montana Jabbe has been caught smuggling his mother’s money. Latest information says Montana Jabbe was caught red-handed by French Customs officers as he was about to smuggle millions of United States 100-dollar bills into the UK over the weekend.

Investigations have shown that Fatima Jabbe Bio sent her son, Montana Jabbe, who is not even a Sierra Leonean citizen, to smuggle millions of dollars into England via France. But luck has run out for the Jabbes and the Bios. This is Sierra Leone money that could have been used for the development of the country. (Photos: Maada Bio and Fatima are aware of the money).

But, like mother, like son, Montana Jabbe, exhibiting the same criminal traits that characterise his mother, Fatima Jabbe Bio, and stepfather Maada Bio, has been siphoning Sierra Leone’s resources into personal accounts abroad for many years now, leaving the country in total ruins.

Since 2018, when Maada Bio was dubiously given power by the former President Ernest Koroma, the Bio family, led by the Gambian-born Fatima Jabbe Bio, has used Sierra Leone as a mining ground to exploit the country’s wealth, leaving the real Sierra Leone citizens in abject poverty.

Sierra Leoneans have welcomed the arrest of Montana by French authorities for smuggling such astronomical sums of money. Hopefully, Montana will face the full force of French law, and the money will be kept for the next government of President-elect Dr Samura Kamara.

The arrest of Montana is good news for the suffering masses in Sierra Leone, but it is bad news for the SLPP regime whose primary ambition is to promote the cocaine trade nationally and internationally, which finances the Bio administration. Today, Sierra Leone is the hub of drug transshipments to the outside.