The state of fundamental human rights are becoming very critical and frightening in Sierra Leone by the hour under the abusive government of President Maada Bio.

Sierra Leoneans were left distraught, stunned and disappointed last Friday when 11 family members of detained rapper Boss LAJ were given stiff sentences for alleged riotous and disorderly conduct when they went to visit the rapper at the CID  the morning after his arrest. They were sentenced to 36 months imprisonment by Magistrate Mark Ngegba of the Pademba Road Court No. 2.

Sierra Leoneans have been complaining bitterly in the social media about the charges and sentences which they regard as unjust. According to them, they could not understand how rushing to the CID  to enquire about one’s detained relatives amounted to riotous and disorderly behaviour.

What is also surprising , rising even to the level of a miracle,  is how a usually slow, sluggish legal system very notorious for abjudicating cases very late, at times months and years, was able within two weeks to charge the 11 persons and sentence them , if the charges were not politically-motivated.

President Bio’s government just keeps dipping deeper and deeper into human rights abuses.

It is shocking that Maada Bio is committing all these human rights abuses and the international community is watching and doing nothing about it.  Instead, the World Bank, especially, keeps lavishing money on the government.