Ahead of the June 24 elections in Sierra Leone, about a dozen or more international Observations Groups are already deployed to monitor the Electoral process by some 3.3 million voters.

The teams are drawn from The African Union, the regional bloc ECOWAS, European Union, Carter Center, and Commonwealth among others.

The deployment of observation missions as routine as it is has raised concerns among a section of the population about their number and subsequently, the outcome of the elections. 

To clear that perspective among other things, WADR’s Patrick Sallia in Freetown, caught up with Linford Andrew, Adviser and Head of Electoral Support Governance and Peace at the Commonwealth.