The main societal problem in Liberia remains but individuals and institutions keep on talking and not presenting solutions to the problems. The main problem continues to be the existence of mainly poor people in the midst of a few rich persons. National Legislators of Liberia have access to at least LD200,000 a day and their foreign partners have access to at least LD300,000,000 a day while almost all of the people of Liberia continue to languish in poverty, having access to at most less than LD300 a day.
By Togba-Nah Tipoteh, contributing writer
Worst situation of all is that poverty has become the pretext for violence as seen in the coups d’etats and civil wars in several countries. It is this experience that has placed Liberia. in the wrong direction. according to the people of Liberia (Afrobarometer, 2022). It is this wrong direction that has placed Liberia in the generation of poverty rather than the alleviation of poverty.
The people of Liberia have begun to move in the right direction and poverty is being alleviated. Look at the results of the Election of October 10, 2023. During this Election, almost all of the National Legislators who wanted to be re-elected and the candidates who wanted to be elected were not re-elected and elected, respectively.
They wren not re-elected and elected because the voters found out the records of the Legislators, the Candidates and the National Election Commission (NEC) of Liberia. This raising of awareness increased the voting by voters and cut down the cheating by NEC. This situation is seen in the voting of 76.86 per cent of the voting age population of Liberia.
This raising of awareness is the only and beat way to stop and prevent the corruption in Liberia and elsewhere. This raising of awareness is the only and best way that persons with good records can get elected to change the bad prevailing injustice system into the good enduring justice system to solve problems and not talk problems in Liberia and in other countries.
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