Maada Bio is History: Can’t he see it on the wall?

It is out of date news that Maada Bio (in photo) is on the road to political oblivion — He is already on the endangered list of influential SLPP delegates. Now, however, even once loyal members of his campaign team are looking toward the future with uneasiness and are trembling with fear.

They worry that Maada Bio’s most well-known characteristics: violence and gangsterism may be fatal at the polls. Mr. Patrick Rogers, a staunch supporter of his campaign’s dwindling clerisy, is sorely vexed by an epiphany full of dark portents.

“I have come to the conclusion,” he proclaims, “that the delegates are saying now that just because you were part of a gang of irresponsible looters that chased out the awful Momoh’s APC out of power —actually, which was a perfect timing — isn’t good enough because he helped to rape the nation.

The Momoh government was agreeably a disgrace. But those wasted millions by the then Momoh government are chicken feed compared to the financial disaster and morale decadence that Bio and his cohorts dumped the nation into. They embarked on spending and looting in a frenzied record-setting spree. They were so futile in job-creation for the youths and saw unemployment rise to over 75 %, frightening in their motivation with Maada at the helm and dire in its financial implications (national bankruptcy) that even non-politically hardened technocrats and donors began to flinch and disappear with all the good intentions they initially had for the country.

Please save your chuckle; this may be serious political history in the making — perhaps the end of an epoch were coupist thought that civilized nations owe them for handing over power which they in the first place seized unlawfully through the barrels of their guns.

Like other insane political spendthrifts before Kinny Maada (and a few quisling unpatriotic sympathizers), he is habituated to throwing fears and uncanny words at every real or imagined imperfection in society, no matter how slight. He will complain and fuss about everything that is wrong but when he had the opportunity like he did, he squandered it. What makes you thing that he will deliver this time around. “Dar frog way nor get tale way e young, nor to way e ole e go get am”

If Kinny Maada is contemplating on using his meager resource to jump start his ambition, he needs to think twice. It’s not that financial largesse actually cures anything. Usually they don’t. But in Sierra Leone’s politics as we see some SLPP delegates doing now, what counts is putting cash in the hands of favored constituents who are expected to express their gratitude on Election Day – March 5. Remember, what goes around, comes around. The same way he duped the people of Sierra Leone will be the same way that the SLPP delegates will dupe him.

When Ernest Koroma took the reins of government, under the guise of a strong man tactics and perhaps because my grandma will say that words are cheap, Maada Bio airily declared that he will take over power again from the APC if the president failed to deliver. What an audacious challenge.

Sadly, what he failed to realize was that you can fool the people sometimes but you cannot fool them all of the times. Three years after these unfortunate faux pas utterances, his magical gift of staging a coup d’etat seems stalled. The peaceful citizens of Sierra Leone have put their worst days behind them and have since embraced hope for a better and prosperous Sierra Leone.

As was depicted in the recent Mabellah incidence where it is alleged that some supporters of Osman Boie Kamara were molested by Bio bodyguards, you can believe that violence is a disease endemic to Maada Bio, especially when he is surrounded by nincompoop renegades of the war, like himself who seem to have a nearly maniacal urge to bring instability and anarchy to the tranquil of Sierra Leone.

With other political spendthrift coupist already lying low, can Maada do the same, credibly claim responsibility and atone for his sins? Is he actually learning for the first time that his own ongoing profligacy is not a virtue? Of course not. But just in case he doesn’t know, the iron laws of common sense have long been blinking “Stop”! You are not wanted in Sierra Leone.

By Christian Foday Sesay Jnr., Texas News Correspondent

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