Month: July 2024

Law & Governance, Politics & Society

Liberians must demand a new constitution before 2029 to end the naked greed of the budget mafia clan.

This extreme greed and dysfunction have been part of our political culture for a long time and were significant contributing factors to our civil war. The fact that the civil war, notwithstanding, this very malfeasance continues to haunt Liberia shows that something more fundamental is at play. That something more fundamental is what I am now giving name to. It’s the failure of our 1986 Constitution

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Law & Governance, Politics & Society

How many constitutional violations must it take to impeach a President? The Case of Liberia’s Joseph Nyumah Boakai

As if all the violations already discussed were not enough, Mr. Boakai decided to trample upon the Constitution and trash it totally by bringing into the country several million [USD] dollars’ worth of earth-moving equipment (known locally as “yellow machines”). He’s signed a self-incriminating letter to our National Legislature to let them know that, in fact, it is not just Ministers Mamaka Bility and Mr. Sylvester Grigsby who are engineering this illegal deal, but that he is fully complicit.

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