MAADA BIO INTERVIEW 2012: “WHY I WANT TO BE PRESIDENT “! New African Magazine.com
Maada Bio: “Why I Want To Be President” For Julius Maada Bio , the controversial opposition leader and presidential aspirant in November’s elections in Sierra Leone, the issues are clear. He wants to ensure that democracy becomes firmly rooted in Sierra Leone and economic development is vigorously pursued in the country. He talked to Stephen Williams about his vision. IN 1992, JULIUS MAADA BIO WAS among a group of six young Sierra Leonean soldiers (that included Captain Valentine Strasser) who toppled President Joseph Momoh’s All People’s Congress government in a bloodless military coup. Bio later led a palace coup in 1996, to overthrow Captain Strasser’s military government, following a division within the ruling Supreme Council of State over whether to introduce multi-party elections that year, and the conditions for participation of the junta members in the elections. Bio’s “palace coup” returned the country to democracy. In 2005, he officially became a member of th...