President Bio vows to avenge
President Julius Maada Bio, who was out of the country when the protest occurred on Wednesday 10 August 2022, returned a day after to address the nation on 12 August, saying: “My government will crack down hard on violent insurrectionists, their collaborators, their sponsors, and their supporters. My government will relentlessly fight those who would rather use terror and gruesome violence to achieve political goals.”The president said those who were behind the insurrection “had severally identified themselves on social media” as warriors of the major opposition party (the APC...
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