The local and global powers that be are money-driven. Therefore, they are interested in pushing their own desires rather than pushing the rights of others, human rights. Generally. Nigeran movies are useful because they help people to know the difference between good and bad. Good is pushing Human Rights and bad is money-driven.
By Togba- Nah Tipoteh, contributing writer
The Scriptures of the Bible and the Quoran tell us that more has been published about what is good and what is bad than about any other subject in history. The Truth that we are told is that Justice is good and injustice is bad. This is so because telling the Truth is the only way to avoid violence, especially when almost all people prefer Justice over injustice and realize that violence does not solve any problem.
One of the recent Nigerian movies on the Liberian TV screen showed how a man was so money-driven that he sold his Wife for some money to become a rich man. He went so far as to arrange the murder of his Wife. But the man to whom he gave money to have his Wife murdered found out that his Wife was his Sister and so he faked her murder.
Well, the husband got a rude awakening! The Wife not only lived but went on to have the baby which she got from the raping of her by the so-called husband! The baby, when grown, went on to be elected King (Igwe) by the Elders of the Kingdom
In Liberia, there are many cases in which the powers that be prosecute good people to promote their own interest. In effect, they promote the bad over the good. it is this promotion that has Liberia boiling over.
It is this promotion that has Liberia being ranked as one of the poorest countries in the world. It is this promotion that has Liberia existing as a poverty generating State! Poverty remains the biggest societal problem in Liberia as it is not only longstanding and widespread but it has become the pretext for violence. Business as usual is the order of the day!
The violence has been experienced by Liberians in the forms of coup d’etat and civil war. These forms of violence have taken the lives of at least 300,000 people and injured many more people. Many people continue to say that poverty itself is a form of violence when they observe that National Legislators have access to at least LD200,000 a day and their foreign business partners have access to at least LD300,000,000 a day and nearly all Liberians have access to at most less than LD300 a day (The Annual Reports of the CBL, LISGIS, MFDP, MCI, WB, IMF, ADB and UNDP),
No wonder the people of Liberia have declared that Liberia is headed in the wrong direction (Afrobarometer, 2022). To get Liberia headed in the right direction, national decision-makers would have to promote the production of raw materials for export with the prioritization of Value Addition that promotes the local manufacturing of products. With local manufacturing, comes local ownership, local employment, local production of local goods and local income generation ad poverty alleviation with local consumption of locally produced goods as production goes up and prices come down.
All of this good news happens when the awareness raising being done by the people who love Liberia continues to transform the unfair prevailing electoral system into the fair enduring electoral system. The only way that this transformation can take place is when persons with good records get elected to bring in, through the Rule of Law, the system of Justice, the indispensable ingredient for Peace and Progress in Liberia and in any other country.
JUSTICE FOR ALL!
