The Editor,
With less than a year left in her presidency that spanned almost twelve years, recent published news articles of the President and her accomplices in the national legislature’s high sense of urgency to secure 2.2 billion dollars loan purportedly for road construction projects is raising eyebrows.
Liberia needs roads – yes we do, but the rush to acquire eleventh-hour loans all in the name of staging political and token projects to win votes is counterproductive!
For almost twelve her government has been plagued with corruption, mismanagement, incompetence, nepotism and cronyism. Nothing of substance has been achieved during her presidency despite the billions in aid and other forms of international goodwill she received. Ellen’s “body of work” is obvious – monstrous incompetence! Under her leadership Liberians have witnessed unprecedented maladministration gilded with unbridled corruption and ineptitude!
It took this President almost twelve long years to restart the Mount Coffee hydro dam – despite the many cries from Liberians and the apparent need for electricity.
Currently, many critical amenities that make life worth living are either derelict or being operated with reckless abandon.
Where was this new found sense of urgency when the President herself referred to our education system as a “mess”?
Where this new found sense of urgency when under her leadership Liberia was achieved the highest infant mortality in the world? Madam President, during your political sojourn – you have tricked, cajoled and confound many.
It is high time you realize that you have ran out of tricks, because you can fool some people sometimes – but you can’t fool all of the people, all of the time !
We are convinced that this a hurried political ploy to sell the unsellable Joseph Boakai to the Liberian people – via token but woefully expensive projects – to simultaneously BUY votes while saddling future generations of Liberians with unimaginable debts !
Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a caterpillar by nature morphs into the lofty butterfly – but Liberia rejects, in totality, your last ditch attempt to transmogrify from the so-called Iron Lady into the two Billion Dollar woman!
Benjamin Kofa Fyneah, Contributing Writer
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