A band of gunmen hoped to become Africa s newest junta and couldn t muster support, but questions about the role of ex-President Koroma abound, Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma s release for medical treatment in Nigeria and the backroom deal that brought it about has enraged many of President Julius Maada Bio s supporters. Controversy still rages over the ex-president s complicity in the attempted coup d état on 26 November, while much more is now known about the men who led it.