Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of Sierra Leone, and Anti Corruption Commissioner, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara Esq. has put the record straight by schooling the opposition APC Western Region Chairman, Kasho J. Holland-Cole on the issue of the Tripartite Committee meeting and for falsely attacking the USA Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Bryan David Hunt on social media.
The former APC flagbearer aspirant Joseph, Fitzgerald Kamara reacted promptly to a post sent on social media by Kasho Holland-Cole which reads “The US Ambassador to Sierra Leone is one of those who have killed Democracy in Sierra Leone, that statement on 98.1 rendered the work of the TRIPARTITE COMMITTEE useless, will the US accept an election outcome without the correct result been read and published, the blood of those who were killed because of Democracy is on his head.
Kasho J Holland-Cole, APC Regional Chairman
For his part, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara tweeted on his X page @jfksalone saying “Why castigate the US Ambassador? He correctly stated the position of the law and fact. Query those within the APC, who chose not to use the judicial process. The U.S. should be seen as a positive partner in electoral reform, not as adversaries. Their investment alone speaks volumes JFK”.
It will be recalled that Sierra Leoneโs June 2023 election was the fifth general election since the end of the civil war in 2002. The main opposition, All Peoples Congress (APC), disputed the outcome with its Presidential candidate, Samura Kamara, criticising the electoral commission while discrediting the results.
On the other end of the election pendulum, President Julius Maada Bio was declared the winner by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL), giving him a mandate for his second term with 56% of the votes cast.
Consequently, the APC refused to take their case to court and announced a boycott of the democratic process. In a country where political power is almost shared in half by the two leading parties, local councils and Parliament could not function optimally.
In October last year, a deal was brokered by ECOWAS, AU, and Commonwealth representatives, which saw the opposition roll back on its boycott stands while a committee with a threeway leadership structure was set to review the election and suggest recommendations
