The Commonwealth-Brokered dialogue has come to an end, but voters have not forgotten about the uncounted votes.

It is an omission they still consider as an unresolved problem with no one knowing where it would end.

The people of Sierra Leone intensifies their call on government especially the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL)  for a re-count and publication of genuine results to ascertain a true winner.

Where a re-count is not feasible, a rerun can work so that the stand off can pass off peacefully.

For the voters, President Bio is not the true winner of the June polls and therefore holds a “stolen mandate.”

The electorate maintain that the elections were riddled with fraud, statistical errors and inconsistencies in the tally and tabulation processes.

The electorate however are not averse to any dialogue for peace and national cohesion, but they eagerly wait to see what will be the last action for President Julius Maada Bio who leads what the opposition refer to as an “illegal administration.”

“We welcome the dialogue, but our votes are not counted, so we demand  that our votes be counted and published by polling stations” they appeal.

The international community especially the US, EU and UK are also urged to enforce resolution-3 of the communiqué which compels government and opposition political parties to investigate the election fraud and proffer recommendations.

To carry out the task, a cross-party committee comprising government, the main opposition, All People’s Congress (APC) and development partners must be set up with a lifespan of six months.

 It is hoped that the enforcement of the said resolution will end election rigging and vote stealing in a country whose democracy is still fledgling.

By its nature, the resolution holds significant potential for Sierra Leone as it reshapes presidential authority and state sovereignty as future electoral processes can aligned with international best practices.

“While the investigation presents challenges, we remain hopeful that it will work effectively,” one of the voters told this press while urging authorities to be vigilant in their task.

In several public addresses, the APC flag-bearer, Dr Samura Kamara almost always reminds Sierra Leoneans that democracy is still under threat as people’s votes remain uncounted.

He has also urged the election body, the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) to bring back “stolen votes.”

 Kamara’s call is one that ECSL has always turned down saying no one should control them, and that the election is over.

The state is now concerned about development and no more elections, they say.

While ECSL officials were busy defrauding the people of Sierra Leone by failing to count votes, APC’s presidential candidate expressed frustration over power abuse and oppression  of voters in opposition strongholds by state security forces.

“Lack of electoral transparency and accountability makes our democracy very fragile in Sierra Leone. The people voted, but the outcome did not represent their will as shown by the results announced,” Dr Kamara criticised ECSL as his supporters press for a re-count or rerun.

He also touched on the impunity that is deeply ingrained in the election officials as no one has been held to account.

He said “We are in an extremely challenging post-election environment, marred with disappointment, anger, grief and seeming hopelessness as votes remain uncounted. The failure has cast doubt on the efficacy of the electoral system, and, by extension, principles of democracy.”

In a normal society, he says, the expectation would have been to seek redress in the court, but the party did otherwise owing to past experiences of miscarriages or travesties of justice.

Amid deliberate institutional failure and daylight fraud, he argues, some ‘men of God’ and others are desperately preaching peace, but failed to preach justice by telling truth to power.

 “I am compelled to state that many of these men and women know the truth; it is just that they are not bold enough to speak up. May the fear of God resurrect and prevail in their hearts as well as in the architects of fraud,” Samura invoked divine intervention.

He also appealed to Sierra Leoneans  to hold on to expectations of justice as the struggle for honest election continues.

Kamara is also concerned about the loss of integrity of the electoral process and danger it poses to unity, peace, democracy and stability of the country.

The threats loom in other countries in Africa and the world and if world powers choose to look away and move with ECSL’S results, democracy is dead.

Kamara however does not lose sight of complicity of the fraud by some of his comrades in the struggle.