Sierra Leone's president: Are there good military coups? | Talk to Al Jazeera

[@ploverofficial]

People have suffered for the past 5 years under his ruling and up till now people are still suffering here in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱. Be honest at once to yourself.

[@maxwellkhamathor3726]

From Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 ❤️ I like the part he (President Bio) said while we try to give the credits to the international actors, it is also important to consider the local actors that played a very critical role, especially women, paramount chiefs and other organizations that do not have have that influence to project what they were doing. I think this is one factor the UN Peace keeping Committee needs to consider when awarding credits after a long fought war to various actors. Local people often make the greatest sacrifice but they are hardly rarely exalted.

[@jagnesheikh3923]

Senegal is presently heading towards elections in February. But, the government denies the opposition to campaign with over 5 to 600 political prisoners including the front running opposition leader in a supposedly democratic country. ECOWAS is fully aware of this poor governance but is giving it the deaf ear. Senegal is one of the few countries in Africa that never had a coup, but somehow, these incidents coupled with judicial and military injustices and suppression have blindfolded both the ECOWAS and France who stands to lose more francophone states if the opposition comes to power. This double standard strategy is what is creating these so-called "good Coups." Thank you.

[@alhajikaisymusamansaray8952]

One of the best president ever in Sierra Leone

[@abiosehcoker1210]

Please let ECSL give us the results

[@shekumansaray2724]

Killer president, please try to give up. You are not fit to rule the people of Sierra leone 🇸🇱

[@mostafizurrahman.]

Assalamu alaikum everyone. Peace be upon you all...

[@tankodestranger]

Wa alaykum Salaam warahmatulahi wabarakatuhu

[@borodel619]

I am an adult now. But what if I was a child of 10 years? What should I think about those insane adults? Only fighting, wars, bullying, ect and they should be responsible for a normal world , and they have to care for us children?

[@SamuraMichealm-hy4kd]

Thanks for the powerful speech Mr President

[@alhassanssay7188]

The guy cannot answer to simple questions. Bio is a disgrace to our country. The man can't impress to the world about Sierra Leone. SHAME ON YOU MAADA BIO.

[@momohvandy5714]

Thanks president Bio for your straight talk and honesty.

[@QueenB510]

Impressive interview!

[@RB-zr5su]

I have great respect for the people of Sierra Leone. This land went through a lot of turmoil. From the days of slavery, colonialism, coups , bad governance and civil war.A lot of blood was spilled over the centuries. I hope we as a people can make it better for future generations.

[@rocroca7459]

How will you make it better when you don’t even know the difference between a good and a bad president? Julius Maada Bio is a criminal a coward and ready to stand against real progress in Africa. He has probably sold the whole country to foreigners.

[@AnthonyGbanie]

God bless you 🙏 HE Bio

[@morliaturay2258]

This guy should step down we pan Africa president

[@peterdauda3351]

Great interview, Paopa Salone go betteh.

[@daramy9507]

An excellent interview. Difficult questions met with knowledgeable answers.

[@williambreeze2659]

One heck of a video!

[@kamarahindolobarbah3520]

This man can't stop lying. Why does Maada is favored by the International community for his blatant lies?

[@sanusiebarrie7225]

Wow this prediction just happened today couple attempts

[@daudasesay5597]

They were no shot fired..just say the truth 4 once mr president 😢

[@SIERRATUBE]

This man is the best and wisest president in Anglophone West Africa. If Sierra Leone doesn't want him, they should give him to us and take Tinubu, we'll give you Reno Omokiri for bonus.

[@mohamedlove443]

You guys should go and pick him up without any condition we don't need such a rebel you call a president in our belove Nation we have long way to go, we're trying to move forward not backwards 😏😏even Tinubu is better than this useless man 🙄😏

[@mykalbelle8397]

Very interesting interview! I overstand why he had to respond the way he did and the coup question. He doesn't want to set himself up for the next coup😅..which is understandable because he is head of government, currently. But reading between the lines, he appears to favour it in certain circumstances. I really apprecia-love how he handled this interview. But i leave it up to his country women and men to decide if he is considered a good and efficient leader.

[@ploverofficial]

The worst leader in the history of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, a man who heigh jack the right of the people. A man who don’t care about the people of this country. He has destroy democracy in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱. God will surely hold you responsible for all those that lost there lives in you past five years and up till now. If you are sure that you will win a free and fair election 🗳️, then why don’t you accept a rerun election in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 again?

[@giftedfooljjhg1981thepasmb]

In the land of Pharaoh there are many lords but only one God. All people have the right to govern and decide their own future.

[@stevenbrown3002]

I have been living in Sierra Leone over 10 years now, and I must commend President Bio for the total security protection in the country but mean while he have to double up on the prices of goods on the market, things prices are really sky rocketing. An average Sierra Leonean can living on $5 per day and this was not like that.

[@adamkondeh8683]

Like Seriously...... Wow Sometimes The Truth Must Be Heard Bra.... Lef Lie

[@stevenbrown3002]

@@adamkondeh8683 how much is $5 na salon now? u da parti pikin ehh?

[@martinabduljalloh3735]

hmm Mr. President why are you lying about the shots fired?

[@wpc1]

Please post a video of yesterday’s Inside Story with the former UN high officials on the topics of the Rafah crossing and reactions to US’s UN veto. The interview was very informative. Thanks. :)

[@bettytommy5831]

I like this Al J interview ❤

[@maadakkemokai7270]

Once again thank mt president. China invest in our cpuntry but they have not mingle with our democracy and the part oir president says they have taken 250 and more in democracy while we have not even reached 20 years. Bravo president Bio

[@FodayThinka]

No shots were fired at d A. P. C. office?

[@mohamedchernorbah556]

The Confidence of Mr President. You man na Man bra

[@NoahkMondeh-yp6zu]

We are suffering till now 😭😭

[@AlhajiTuray-x4f]

You was no experience to rule that country

[@Mokakross]

U where one of the people they cost the war in the first place

[@arunabangura4802]

His security forces open shot on the oppositions party head quarter, and killed innocent people twice this man is a very big lier😅

[@josephbockarie9327]

He absolutely honest and eloquent about the issues. The cause of the war from 1991 to 2001 does point to the impact of many years of APC maladministration and mismanagement of public resources. APC leadership was stealing from the soldiers who were in the bush fighting to save the country. Those uneducated commentators who are ignorant of the underlying causes of today’s difficulties, do not realise that Ahmed Tejan Kabba handed over a booming economy to the APC and the APC handed over to wrecked economy with billions of dollars in debt internationally, trillions of Leones in debt locally, bankrupt Bank of Sierra Leone and the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank.

[@clementgavi7290]

'Are there good military coups?' A question of legitimacy. A thought from political philosophy has considered that a legitimate power is that power such that it becomes illegitimate to rebel against it. By deduction, an illegitimate power is that power such that it becomes legitimate to rebel against it.

[@bailorbah5904]

You spoke well Mr. President. Even the journalist was amazed about what you were saying. May Allah direct you, be with through these difficult times in Sierra Leone. But, please put pressure on your MP, MDAs, and other sectors for sustainable development in Sierra Leone

[@MegaLadylove2012]

You guys are more obsessed with this idea of ‘well spoken’ than actual facts

[@bailorbah5904]

@@MegaLadylove2012 I know the angle you are coming from, so I can't even say much

[@jimmyandtheresurrection7247]

Democracy, Democracy ! That's all we hear ! But the.voice of the people is still being ignored.

[@milkdiamond1490]

The guy is a serial coupist, so of course, he justifies his coups, including the one in June of this year. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that the interviewer was sufficiently prepared. If he were, he would have played the speech by the fmr. President, Ahmed Tijan Kabba, at the U.N General Assembly, where Kabba eloquently informed the world that Bio overthrew his coup partner and then head of state, Valentines Strasser, precisely in an effort to thwart the plan for an election. He was forced to submit to an election. It was never his desire to do so. This guy is a pathological liar. But don't believe me, fact-check my statement. Look up the speech by Ahmed Kabbabat the UNGA!

[@UbuntBaba004]

But his regime and young brave comrades overthrew and rescued Sierra Leone at the time when the country was held hostage by serial dictators, elites, and a single party system. By your words, he didn't hold on to power and submitted as promised for a democratic election process (the first one for over 2 decades under an autocratic one party system). He wouldn't have won his first term in 2018 as a civilian if his people and country shared the same sentiment.

[@maxwellkhamathor3726]

Your perception about President Bio's presidency or past record as an Army Brigadier is obviously biased. He's one of the few active soldiers (in the world) who took power from a military government and handed it over to a civilian regime. In the 1900, there were over 20 successful coup attempts across Africa and it was only in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 a de facto coup leader was overthrew by another military faction just to hand the power over again to a civilian democratic government.

[@slnewsblog7532]

These guys are everywhere spewing lies... 2028 you'll be defeated again for this deception

[@fatmatakindi3461]

President julius Maado Bayo😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@technocrat9594]

The only father of Democracy president julius madaa Bio God bless you sar.

[@ploverofficial]

Yes a father who kill democracy in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱. You are are a joke 😂

[@abdulrahimbarrie]

🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱

[@tanvirbawa9621]

This is a lesson how a handful of terrorists start wars between countries. Request to Islamic countries to stop promoting and supporting terrorists in name of jihad.

[@maadakkemokai7270]

God continue to bless you president Bio . Our president and the saviour

[@barrieahmed3233]

This talk is somehow convincing by his Excellency President Julius Maada Bio. Thank you, Sir.

[@DamianJohn-v2x]

I am impressed with his interviewed.keep it up Mr President. Your name will forever remains in the annals of history for future generation of Sierra Leoneans

[@HassanRadder-j5p]

Well done Mr president I'm really pleased with your comments 😊😊😊😊😊

[@johnmohamedkoroma9485]

Great Leader !! President Bio is the Moses of Sierra Leone !!

[@tejanbangura4543]

Yeri mumu, u dae suffer so

[@LordTyrantt]

​@@tejanbangura4543ah swear salone people nor get sense

[@siasonify]

Why u dae lie so ba the people are suffering he has wreck the country

[@havisionfitness864]

@@LordTyrantt he has alot of sense. the only difference is this moses don't part seas he part people from their money and loved ones.

[@LordTyrantt]

@@havisionfitness864 I agree he's a con man

[@saiduturay5721]

This is one time world

[@tylancoleman2862]

No questions on regional integration..

[@alfredstreete]

I am very surprised of how out of touch he is when ask what is the reason for the recent coups in Africa he said they are yet to put their finger on the reason. Or is playing he don't know? When he does...

[@IsatuBangura-qh3ve]

Sierra leone has the worse education. Now, OMG. He is lying

[@AbdulRConteh-w4n]

He is a lier

[@isaiahtheophiluspessima7048]

Am not only pleased, am satisfy with the comments and none of it is false. God bless you sir.

[@Fawaz1001]

Good man , bad administration, I love this man but I don’t love his work.

[@baddestjay8012]

😂😂😂 is a big lie 😊

[@aboubacarrpetit4072]

His regime is even worse than the civil war... 😢😢

[@tankodestranger]

You sound confused and deluded.

[@slnewsblog7532]

Hardworking President... Very honest

[@MomoduMansaray-g5f]

Where is the honesty

[@mayenibracey8075]

Shame on you Mr presidents shame

[@hassanturay511]

This criminal bio is a notorious liear, he will never stop his criminal games

[@MegaLadylove2012]

He always looks like a deer in a headlight

[@daudabuaniesheriff4298]

President Brigadier (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio is an embodiment of Democracy😊.

[@ibrahimkoromboconteh4003]

Hmm..... we lef case to God

[@ngekiasokenah8819]

Hello to everyone who subscribe to this Chanel. Am Sokenah from sierra Leone west Africa. Our president is not saying the fact about our nation. In our nation their are no justice, no freedom of speech, no democracy no prize control, corruption in high increase, brutality is day by day, no employment, every day things are getting hard and hard, no freedom of speech for opposition parties, the judiciary is not independent to name few. We have more than four to five thousand graduate every year from different university, college and other affiliated institutions but not even seven hundred will have a job. We don't have enough employment facilities.

[@addisontarawally3368]

Thank you Mr. President for setting the records straight ❤ You're the people's centered President 😊

[@ShanyMensah-ss8px]

Lie nor good. Good go arrest you soon

[@Hellofits]

All is lie 😮😮😂

[@nyakehpaultiffa6490]

In the process of war, the truth is the first casualty. Well answered my president 💪😊

[@JohnLahai-rm6bv]

I have listened and viewed from A to Z this enlightened conversation, I doff my hat for my president. He knows the stuff and on top of things. Please institute debt relief to give us a breathing space. We are ready and eager to develop our nations.

[@augustineensakallon2691]

That is my president our president the people president talking. We love ❤ 😍 you Sir long live President Julius Maada Bio long live Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 ❤ 💙 ♥ 💕 💖 🇸🇱

[@michaelphrazelusanie3029]

H. E Bio is a game changer and the best Sierra Leone have had. When we talk about leadership Sierra Leone have the model which other nations should emulate... ❤❤❤

[@rahmanarsenal]

You're mad😂

[@benoitlapierre1315]

Bio is a incredible president social progressivism is good for west Africa as for the now.

[@syd8887]

Hearing this guy talking is, Like a provocation

[@chernorabdulkarimjalloh2697]

You see what am seeing😡 this man can lie for the whole of Africa

[@ik4387]

Tiff man

[@solomonsteven9760]

God bless president bio 🙏 ♥️