By Kabs Kanu
Little drops of water and little grains of sand make a mighty ocean. On Thursday, the women of Sierra Leone staged protests at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Washington DC, the White House and the Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC) against the Sierra Leone Dictator Maada Bio.
The women are protesting against the dictatorial policies of the SLPP leader and President, his extrajudicial political killings, human rights abuses , tribalism and targeted harassment of strong women in the country like the Auditor General, Mrs. Lara Taylor Pearce and the Mayor of Freetown, Mrs. Yvonne Aki-Sawyer.
Carrying placards condemning the dictator for his various crimes against the people of Sierra Leone, the women told U.S officials that they were compelled to start the protests to bring to the attention of the international community the heinous crimes being committed against the people by the dictator and human rights abuser, President Julius Maada Bio.
The women were few in number but their messages carried a tremendous impact, given the respect Americans have for women political activism .
Other women in different parts of the U.S and Sierra Leone are also planning protests across America and Sierra Leone. They plan to bring the nation to a standstill if the dictator illegally removes the Mayor or rigs next year’s presidential elections.
The Concerned Sierra Leoneans in America are also planning big demonstrations against Dictator President Bio at the White House, State Department and MCC .
When Thursday’s demonstrations were described as small beginnings, a Sierra Leonean political activist, Mr. Hassan Sas Moi quickly responded that “ Nothing is a small beginning in the world we are living today. A man plus a computer equal to a movement “.
The demonstrations were not entirely surprising to American officials as the U. S State Department Reports on Human Rights in the world for 2021 and 2022 seriously indicted the Sierra Leone dictator for the same diabolical crimes highlighted by the women .
HERE ARE PHOTOS OF THE PROTESTS . MORE COMING .
