26/10/2016
Left Behind In Freetown Talking ‘Norshi-norshi’, While others Are In America…
Shame, Shame On Maada Bio
- He Tells Why He Has Been Banned From Going To The USA
- Can’t be Allowed TO Ride On People’s Backs To Get A Visa
The defeated 2012 presidential candidate of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) was left crestfallen when once again he could not secure a much-needed visa to travel to the United States of America, a country that hosts hundreds of thousands of Sierra Leoneans.
Bio was in Freetown trying to rationalize why the US embassy could not grant him a visa to go to the world’s leading democracy. In a radio interview, Bio said he had not committed a major crime like wife-beating but that it could be related to his asylum claims which he abandoned to come to Sierra Leone after the AFRC interregnum.
However, seasoned political pundits don’t buy that story as it is clear that major democracies had put a blanket black-list on all those who played a major role in the NPRC era. “This was why Valentine Strasser was deported from the UK and also Komba Kambo was removed from the US. Bio’s name is on a list that makes him a never-return former resident of the US,” a reliable source stated.
Many citizens were outraged that Bio, an alleged extra-judicial murderer, could try to compare himself with Nelson Mandela and Indian Prime Minister Mohdi. “This is totally out of context. He is a pariah that is being treated as such due to his participation in extra-judicial killings; so he cannot put himself in the same class as freedom fighters or leaders with pro-people agendas who were misinterpreted in the course of their causes. And what is more heartrending is Bio’s desire to use the people of this country to get a visa to America. In simple and clear terms, he’s trying to say that he can only go to America if he is elected as president of Sierra Leone. And that means, in a nutshell, he will never go to America, because the people of this country will never elect him as president. So it’s the case of the proverbial dog dying with its dream. This is a big shame on Maada Bio who has consistently applied for a visa and has continually been rejected.”
Key SLPP apparatchiks, including Andrew Keilli of ‘Ponder My Thoughts’ fame (another SLPP presidential aspirant) are currently in America. And Bio’s propaganda machinery had earlier insinuated in press reports that he had been able to finally secure a visa, only for it to again turn out to be a ruse. No Visa. No entry to the US of A.
Shame, shame on Maada Bio.