Adedokun Waliyu 
President Julius Maada Bio has been announced as the winner of Sierra Leone’s presidential election.
However, his main challenger, Samura Kamara, has rejected the results.
The West African country’s Chief Electoral Commissioner Mohamed Kenewui Konneh on Tuesday said Bio was re-elected after securing 56.17 percent of votes in Saturday’s election.
According to Konneh, Kamara of the All People’s Congress (APC) came second with 41.16 percent.
Kamara described the day as “a sad day for our beloved country”.
“It is a frontal attack on our fledgling democracy,” he posted on Twitter.
“These results are NOT credible and I categorically reject the outcome so announced by the electoral commission.”
SaharaReporters on Tuesday reported that Sierra Leone Police and military personnel shot dead four young supporters of the APC party in Masiaka town.
The supporters were killed on Monday evening in Masiaka which lies 65km outside Freetown, in the Port Loko District, Northern Province of Sierra Leone.
“In the first video, a man is describing how live rounds are being used by the police, who are shooting at people.
“The boy in the video – who looks to be around early 20’s in age, seems to have had his life spared, but had been brutally raped and was lying on the roadside, bleeding, when he was found by residents,” a witness said.
“The police and the military are apparently on a killing spree now, targeting all APC supporters they can find and they are most active at night. After 60 percent of the results have been announced,” another source said.
It was reported on Sunday that one person was killed while many others were injured as the military unleashed violence on members and supporters of opposition parties in the country.
Sources told SaharaReporters on Sunday that one person was killed on Saturday, Election Day by the military while many others were injured.
However, SaharaReporters obtained the video of a man who had been shot and was fighting for his life and the picture of the man who had reportedly been shot dead.
It was also obtained videos of members of the main opposition party, APC and international journalists there for coverage, huddled together in rooms as the military reportedly fired gunshots outside.
In one of the videos, President Bio’s main rival and head of the APC party, Samura Kamara, is seen lying on the floor, hiding alongside other party members in the room.
“Around 15 minutes ago, the APC, opposition party was holding a meeting at their headquarters in Freetown, Sierra Leone when the military started firing from outside into the building.
“These people in the video are opposition party supporters. They are all hiding in a small room. Two of them are international journalists there for election coverage.
“They were addressing a press conference when the military started shooting live bullets in the place so they had to lie down. The APC presidential candidate is the one in white and black lying on the floor in one of the videos,” one of the sources had said.
“One was killed and many others were injured by the military during an attack on opposition party members in Sierra Leone on Election Day,” another source noted.
