One leader expected to deliver his address in New York (his last address for that matter) is the illegal Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio whose ultimate ambition at the UN General Assembly next few days is to lobby and garner any little support to gain international recognition rather than putting the interests of Sierra Leoneans. Most citizens have already dubbed Bio’s presence there as ‘Deceptive and Misleading’. (Photo: Bio is lobbying in Washington for recognition during his meet with the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Molly McPhee and US Ambassador Bryan David Hunt).

The UN Summit in New York which is expected to conclude on September 30 would coincide with the deployment of the ECOWAS Mission in Sierra Leone ostensibly to restore democracy and constitutional rule in the unstable country as mandated by the United Nations Security Council. The 79th session of the UN General Assembly UNGA 79 is here. Reports say the General Debate will be on Tuesday 24 September, 2024 and continues on Saturday, September 28, and will end on Monday, 30 September 2024.

Sierra Leoneans at home and around the world would be fuming with fury that the illegal President Bio will represent them at the UN General Assembly. The angry voters who came out in exodus fashion to vote against Maada Bio’s SLPP regime on June 24, 2023  multi-tier elections are still feeling the pain that an unfit, an autocratic President is scheduled to speak at the UN General Assembly next week while the world listens his lies and misleading statement. (Photo: Maada and his billionaire wife Fatima Jabbe Bio at the airport).

This is unacceptable and, it is a gross insult to the suffering people of Sierra Leone who see the Electoral Thief like Maada Bio appearing on the world stage again when the ECOWAS Mission for Sierra Leone ECOMISIL Troops are deploying to restore constitutional rule in the country. Hopefully, the people in Sierra Leone would witness a change of regime from Maada Bio’s dictatorial rule to a democratic governance to be led by the APC leader Dr Samura Kamara who actually won the June 24, 2023 elections.

It is an odd coincidence that the ECOWAS deployments in Freetown will complete at the same time the UN General Assembly conclude their meeting in New York. Coincidence or not, what the citizens are demanding for now is for Electoral Justice to be restored as soon as possible. Even the Sierra Leoneans who are in a determined mood to welcome the ECOWAS soldiers have prepared their posters and placards heralding messages such as ‘We Want Our Democracy Back’, ‘Give Us Electoral Justice’, and ‘People Need Democracy Now’. (Photo: APC leader Dr Samura Kamara who won the June 24, 2023 elections).

While patriotic and competent Heads of State around the world are still in their respective countries doing national jobs, the hopeless and illegal Sierra Leone President Maada Bio has already left his country two weeks ago before the UN Summit convenes in New York. It just shows the succinct ineptitude and ineffectiveness of Maada Bio who is in America now to lobby for international recognition, a precious commodity that has eluded his SLPP regime in the aftermath of the June 24, 2023 elections that he stole in broad daylight.

Maada Bio and his SLPP delegation secretly travelled to Lebanon to hide his stolen loots in secret bank accounts in Hezbollah land and two days later he travelled to London where he was seen making a speech at Oxford University. Another PR faux pas! Bio is now in the US for the MCC $US480M cash and IMF credits but in reality he is chasing the money for global recognition. It is clear that Bio will definitely meet stumbling blocks at the State Department and Congress where officials have refused to approve the 480M dollars of the MCC grants tied to democracy and the implementation of the Tripartite recommendations.