This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchett with Gregory Coppley, Defense and Foreign Affairs

Editor and publisher. In winter of 2023, there was a critical election in Nigeria where

the power passed from the disgraced and corrupt presidency to a subordinate of the disgraced

and corrupt presidency. That's Nigeria, the most popular state. And I follow the reporting

that Gregory and his colleagues have made in Nigeria. I learn, however, that the word

corruption is not useful. That we're talking about a different kind of governance that

depends upon those with the weapons, yes, those with access to the bank accounts, yes,

those with good friends and loyal friends, yes. And also what should have to say is straight

up violence at election time. And we now move from Nigeria, the most popular state in Africa

and potentially the power of all of Africa in the 21st and 22nd century to a small country

called Sierra Leone, where they held their own election in late June of this year. And

at this point, I have to say Gregory, it turned into a shootout like Hollywood. President

Bio wanted to win. He was challenged by a man named Camara. What happened?

Well, it was certainly an interesting situation. Bio was becoming isolated, more and more isolated

from the electorate and was using the police and elements within the armed forces to extract

money from the economy and from the electorate over the years. And it was there was no doubt

that he would have been removed at this election. So going into the election all the way up,

he tried to get rid of his number one rival who had in fact been a cabinet minister in his own

government earlier. That's Dr. Samura, Camara, former foreign minister, among other things,

of Sierra Leone. And he tried to assassinate Camara on three or four occasions the last being

the day after the election and before the votes had been so-called counted. He wanted to make

sure that Camara wasn't around even if the election was announced in his favor. Now Bio had actually

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