Author: Contributing Writer

The Editor, Yesterday, Liberia and Liberians witnessed the most appalling political maneuver in contemporary Liberian political history – Mr Alexander Cummings official alignment with the Unity Party. The significance of this political folly cannot be overstated.

Introduction On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, President George M. Weah declared a 21-day State of Emergency (SOE) along with a two-week partial lockdown of Montserrado and Margibi counties effective midnight April 10, 2020. The Legislature would later endorse the SOE and extend it for a period of 90-days. The Legislature also empowered the President to periodically review the SOE and choose whether to lift it or not anytime within the 90-day period. Since then, the two-week partial lockdown that include a de facto curfew from 3 PM to 6 AM and the shutdown of most government offices and business centers…

Again, the curtain rises and the floodlight dances across the stage revealing characters and scenes that the author has summoned for his plot. The audience continue to play their role, watching on. However, the length of the play has created mixed feelings and emotions within the mind of the audience. A segment of the audience has concluded the outcome of the plot – failure, while others establish a mind-set that the storyline is just about to get better. Nevertheless and without doubt, the contents of the plot are not the best that any author would envisage unravelling on a stage.…

In his speech posted April 15, 2002, Cllr. Tiawan S. Gongloe, indicated the role of civil society in promoting peace and development in the MRU space, (http://www.theperspective.org/gongloemruspeech.html).  The astute lawyer, who also was a civil society activist, reminded civil society groups that… “The only guide to getting involved in political activities is that the objectives of those activities should be lawful and the manner of achieving them must be lawful”.  I should hasten to state that the lawyer was inclined to know that civil society groups as part of the body politics of the region cannot sit idle by and…

The Editor, Who is and who  is not a “First Clsss Citizen” of Liberia? Once you are not a First Class Citizen then what are the other categories of citizenship and what determines how you belong to the other classes?  How does one become a “First Class Citizen?” How does one lose his/her First Class citizenship status if one is no longer in government?  Or, is it for life? Do you have to be elected or appointed to a government position to enjoy “First Class Citizenship” status? I didnt know there are three lanes roads in Liberia where the third…

The Editor, Associate Justice Nagbe is our respected Justice of the Supreme Court. He should be interpreting the laws of the Nation. He should be telling Police Officers who set him up to break the law that they are wrong.

The Editor, Misprint, Misprint, it can’t be true?? Rodney Sieh and FPA, are you sure? I beg to differ. Or, call it “steal from steal makes God laugh.” Or, a case of John’s palm oil waste on John’s rice. Or, the kukujumuku and the merry go round. Now you know how don’t-give-a-darn regime is run. Wipe your tears and tell Gbekugbeh thank you that his hired killers of former rebel generals did not “Harry-Greaves” you or “Matthew-Innis” you….because of your mom. When things begin to fall apart in Liberia in the current Pro-Poor CDC regime, anything goes and the poor…

Amos Tweh, [email protected], Contributing Writer  It has been gathered from the grapevine that President Weah submitted the draft Recast Budget, as required by the Resolution approving the State of the Emergency, to the National Legislature on Sunday, May 17, 2020. The process has proceeded surreptitiously because contrary to the requirements of transparency set out in the Public Financial Management (PFM) Law and public policy formulation, the public was never informed about the submission of the Recast Budget. To date, not a single press release on the submission of the Recast Budget was issued by the Executive Mansion, MICAT, the MFDP, or…

Many academics that I spoke with had limited faith in the possibility of an “Africa Unity”, in fact to many; African Unity is an illusion that may never be realized. One of the simple reasons for such an extreme disbelief is because of “Mis-education”. The African Union may change its objectives as many times as possible, it may even change it nomenclature as it did from the Organization of African Unity-OAU to the African Unity-AU, the problem shall continue to persist. Changing nomenclatures and objectives are just mere attempt to treat the symptoms of an acute problem.

The Editor, Let me run my mouth small-small on this failed and fake democracy we have in Liberia.