21/03/2015
WHAT JULIUS MAADA BIO DID AT 28 YEARS
ERNEST CANNOT DO AT 62 YEARS (RESPECT
OUR CONSTITUTION)
When Maada passes around, all he receives are
insults from yellow journalism. A lot of character
assassination from within and outside the party
he has now associated with. “ if we have failed to
reward patriotism, we will not fail to enjoy
tyranny”
He was young and prone to a lot of mistakes. At
a time when nobody could dare to openly criticise
the ruthless rule of the Siaka Steven led APC (an
Association of Prominent Criminals), a young
school boy had to abandon his academic works
to start the process of liberation.
Julius Maada Bio then left his academics to join
the military so that he could be part of a group of
officers to save the nation from a dictatorship
that is now being replicated by the present
dispensation. To him, dying trying to free his
people was better than reading for a doctorate
degree on common wealth scholarship.
Julius Maada Bio leapt to prominence when he
reminded his fellow officers of the duty they owed
to the nation. They were all young and
immediately forgot the true intent of the coup. It
was designed to unseat a barbaric system and
start a process of an ever living democracy in our
nation. In Captain Strasser’s maiden speech, he
said they have overthrown the APC that had torn
our country apart on nepotism, tribalism ,,,,,,etc.
He said never will they be again. Soon after, our
young officers allowed egocentric politicians to
derail dear dreams.
Julius Maada Bio as ever remained focused and
took power from the grip of his colleagues (who
had surrounded themselves with desperate
politicians) to start a journey to our democracy.
As a nationalist, a patriot, and one who cares very
much for the welfare of his people, Maada did not
abuse the constitution to run in the election he
was to conduct like Jammeh, or like recently in
Egypt. He remained true to his conscience,
conducted a free and fair election that ushered in
our first democratically elected president.
Never had Maada being accorded the due respect
he deserves. Instead, every irresponsible citizen
has being paid to ridicule his work. Some say he
was compelled by international pressure to
conform. Now that a democratically elected
government has used powers to declare a
candidate who got less than 2,000 votes to
represent his people as against one who pulled
over 12,000 vote, now that the process of electing
the speaker of the house of parliament had been
tempered with unconstitutionally, now that our
elected vice president has been unconstitutionally
relieved of his office and all the cries of our
people fall on deaf ears, a true and honest peace
loving citizen can only attribute Maada’s effort to
give power to a democratically elected civilian
government to his love for his country.
Maada, you and only few will ignore the sweets of
power to do what is expected and what you
swore to do. If many do not know why we love
and follow you, it is because at a very young age,
you had proved to us that our safety is better
than all the sweets that a stay in power could
have accorded you. We will live our lives for you
and lay it for you if it so pleases time.
Long live Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio! Long live
Sierra Leone! Even as we mourn our democracy.
