Julius Maada Bio – Snubbed

Reports reaching this press indicate that attempts by operatives of a cross-section of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) led by refugee claimant Paul Duwai Sowa to hold a meeting of Sierra Leoneans for their presidential flag bearer, Julius Maada Bio, to address a handful of their party stalwarts at the Day’s Inn hotel on Wilson Avenue (Jane and wilson intersection) in Toronto flopped on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Usual impeccable sources indicate that as soon as the news of Maada Bio’s arrival in Toronto from Montreal leaked to the public, then hundreds of Sierra Leoneans tropped from Hamilton, Brampton, Burlington, North York and and far as Winnipeg and Edmonton to the Day’s Inn hotel with placards requesting answers from Maada Bio to account for his role in the extra-judicial killings of 29 innocent Sierra Leoneans, including former inspector General of police James Bambay Kamara, as well as to account for monies he stole from the the sale of the country’s passports to Chinese nationals and his surreptious role of emptying the national treasury by causing the government of Sierra Leone to pay into his personal account thousands of United States dollars for delivery of helicopter parts.

Sources further indicate that the meeting was eventually cancelled with Paul sowa quoted to have apologised to his colleague SLPP supporters that the meeting had been cancelled for security reasons, and that it would now be a closed door one for only SLPP supporters. Meanwhile, one of the protestors, Sallay Kamara told this medium that Maada Bio had come to Toronto under disquise and that it was an affront for them to be invited to a meeting that would have been addressed by someone who has blood in his hands for the killing of innocent and unsuspecting sierra Leoneans. “This is why we are outrightly rejecting him here”, Sally furious said. Day’s Inn hotel sources in Toronto confirmed that indeed one of their small conference rooms was booked for a meeting but had to cancel the booking on the advise of Toronto police for security reasons. “We are a country that values human rights and it is good that Sierra Leoneans are standing up for their rights, a Canadian observer was quoted to have told the protesters. Details will follow as they unfold.

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