With Foday Sankoh being incarcerated, they needed someone to step up and lead the RUF. This arrest affected the RUF so bad, in fact that the Alimamy Pallo Bangura, who is the representative of the RUF in the presidential election, only received 1.7 of all votes. (Sankoh: The, 2003). Although, this angered the RUF because of Sankoh’s arrested, they felt as though it was time for a new leader. Their was one person in particular who could have done the job. This person was Sam Bockerie “Mosquito”, he earned the nickname for his ability to attack when his enemies were off guard. Bockerie started fighting in a force that was ran by Charles Taylor before he became President of Liberia. (Lucy, 2003). In other words, he was worse than Sankoh, he had
