By Kabs Kanu
President Julius Maada Bio is the most idle and unserious President I have ever known .
How can a whole President leave his duties at home and waste public funds to attend Armed Forces Day in another country ? Liberia’s Armed Forces Day is not a significant event of any international importance at all to compel any serious President to abadon his duties in his own country to go attend . At worst, Bio should have sent his Army Chief of Staff or the military Adviser to the Sierra Leone Embassy in Monrovia.
I lived in Liberia for 12 years. I never saw any President of any country attend Armed Forces Day in Liberia. Neither have I seen any Liberian President leave Monrovia to attend Armed Forces Day in another country. It is a local event that has no bearing on other countries. What is Bio going to do there ? Udat gee am bonga for sell ?
Secondly, I want somebody to tell me what the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) have to learn from Maada Bio, an accused international cocaine dealer , human rights abuser and internationally – defamed elections thief? What are the values in military gallantry, patriotism, fine citizenship , heroism, chivalry and institutional correctness that Bio exemplifies as a retired self- promoted Brigadier for him to pass on to another army in another country ?
President Joseph Boakai deserves the beating he is receiving from his Liberian people. He too does not look like a serious President. If Bio is going to address the Liberian army, what values will he, a tribalist, cocaine dealer and human rights abuser, be passing on to the Liberian army ? If a President wants to instill in his soldiers the virtues of a professional and disciplined army , loyal to the core values of responsible soldering, is Bio the man to call to address them ? The Maada Bio who has turned the Sierra Leone Army into “gronna ” boys ( To use the Liberian term for thugs, mobsters and hooligans ) and a tribal Kamajor militia ? Somebody tell me what message Bio will be carrying to the Liberian army . The man is a bad example, the kind of uncle you will not invite for Thanksgiving or Christmas because he is not a good model for the kids. The Liberian Army has nothing to learn from Bio or this present indisciplined and tribalistic Sierra Leone Army under Maada Bio.
President Bio is just not a serious person but who can blame him ? He does not value the Sierra Leone presidency and why should he ? People have no value for anything they steal. Bio did not work hard for the presidency. In 2018, Britain and the international community entrusted power to him in the name of REGIME CHANGE and in 2023 Bio shamefully and boldly stole the elections for which he got international infamy from international elections observers and international stakeholders.
If Bio really valued the Sierra Leone presidency, he would not have treated it with such callous and reckless contempt and dishonor. Bio would never have turned State House into the hub of international cocaine marketing and even lodge a wanted international cocaine baron there— A shameful act that has put him at odds with the the world community and the Netherlands, the baron’s country, who are now demanding his extradition.
Bio shows his contempt for the presidency also by refusing to respect governance norms, the constitution , the rule of law and common morality. But again , why must we blame him? The man is just an imbecile.
What a shame.
