10 Things You Didn't Know About Julius Maada Bio - President of Sierra Leone

Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Julius Maada Bio
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Julius Maada Bio is a Sierra Leonean politician who is currently serving as the 5th president of Sierra Leone since April 4, 2018. He was born on 12 May 1964, in Tihun, a village in the Sogbini Chiefdom, Bonthe District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. He is a retired Brigadier General in the Sierra Leone Army and was the military Head of State of Sierra Leone from January 16, 1996 to March 29, 1996 under a military Junta government. As the candidate of the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party, Bio defeated Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress in the runoff vote of the 2018 Sierra Leone presidential election with 51.8% of the votes to Kamara"s 48.2%. International and local observers declared the election free, fair and credible
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Given that he has been serving in public positions for a long time, his life has quiet been in the public for a while and many people know who he is but there are certain things that many may not know about him. So let’s take a closer look at this amazing politician with the 10 things you didn’t know about Julius Maada Bio.
1. He is the 33rd out of 35 Children
As we earlier mentioned, Julius Maada Bio was born on 12 May 1964, in Tihun, a village in the Sogbini Chiefdom, Bonthe District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. Bio was born three years after Sierra Leone’s Independence during the administration of the then Sierra Leone Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai of the SLPP. Bio is the 33rd of 35 children born to Sherbro Paramount Chief Charlie Bio the second of Sogbini Chiefdom. Bio's father had nine wives and together they gave birth to 35 children. Bio was named after his paternal grandfather, who was also a paramount chief of Sogbini Chiefdom.
2. Julius Maada Bio Has Participated In 2 Military Coups
On April 29, 1992, Bio was one of a group of young Sierra Leonean soldiers including Captain Valentine Strasser, Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Lieutenant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma and Captain Komba Mondeh that toppled president Joseph Saidu Momoh’s All People's Congress government in a bloodless military coup. Also on January 16, 1996, Bio led a military coup, ousting Captain Valentine Strasser, following a dispute within the governing Supreme Council of State over whether to seek peace with the RUF before multi-party elections, planned for March 1996, or go ahead with the election notwithstanding the ongoing war in the country, and the conditions for participation or disqualification of junta members in the elections. The coup was backed by many high-ranking NPRC soldiers including Colonel Tom Nyuma, Lieutenant Colonel Komba Mondeh, Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Glover, Lieutenant Colonel Idriss Kamara, and Lieutenant Colonel Karefa-Kargbo. Captain Valentine Strasser, then the leader of the NPRC and the military Head of State of Sierra Leone, was handcuffed at gunpoint by his own military bodyguards who were supposed to protect him, and was immediately flown into exile in a military helicopter to Conakry, in neighboring Guinea.
3. His First Ever Appointment Was As Secretary Of State
After the 1992 coup in Sierra Leone, Bio and the other young soldiers who accomplished the coup formed the National Provisional Ruling Council, the NPRC with Captain Valentine Strasser as their leader and Head of State of Sierra Leone. Bio's first appointment following the formation of the NPRC was as the Secretary of State South, stationed in the country's second capital Bo. He was later moved to Freetown to serve as Secretary of State in charge of Information and Broadcasting. At that point, he was promoted to Captain alongside other junior lieutenants. As a leading member of the coup that kicked out the APC government, Bio served as Supreme Council of State member throughout the NPRC's stay in power and when Strasser's deputy, captain S.A.J. Musa, was sacked and exiled to the UK, Bio was appointed to the position of Deputy Chairman of the NPRC.
4. Bio Has Been Married Twice
In 2013, Julius Maada bio married his second wife Fatima Bio in a beautiful ceremony in London but before that wedding, he was previously married to his first wife with whom they had three children. The identity and details of his first wife is something he has kept under wraps. His Wife who is the first Lady of Sierra Leone is called Fatima Bio.
5. Bio Has Accussed His Predecessor And His Government Of Corruption
Bio's administration, led by his Chief Minister David J. Francis, has recently issued an investigative r

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