Yes, Liberians fasted and prayed for six years while George Weah smoked, drank, danced “Buga,” and looted the country dry. Today, Mr. Weah, his wife, and many of his CDC insiders are rich for the rest of their lives and even for the next generation. Since January 2024, Liberians started a new round of “fasts and prayers,” this time patiently waiting for divine intervention while Mr. Boakai and the Unity Party kleptocrats complete their turn looting the country. After they finish, they’ll probably pass the country back to George Weah and CDC for “round two.”
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Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS Liberia prides itself on being the first independent African nation. Its citizens are never shy of brandishing their 177-year-old sovereign country. Yet, every time a major crime occurs in Liberia, surprisingly, this sovereign nation almost always calls for an “independent” foreign investigation. When one considers the repeated calls for independent foreign inquiry, one is hard-pressed to think, ‘What’s the problem with
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This is an ancient Christian wisdom that the supposedly Christian nation, Liberia, failed to heed and now is experiencing the devastating consequences of. Mr. Boakai is just not going to deliver anything better for Liberia. He was unable to do so for himself – infamously living on handouts from Henry Costa and Stanton Witherspoon.
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What George Weah and others did in the name of “covert operations” is fraud and theft on the grandest scale. No one should be able to misuse and abuse US$178m of GOL funds and walk away with impunity. If truly no one is above the law, then Mr. Weah and his accomplices at the NSA, MOS, EPS & FIA must be charged and prosecuted in keeping with law. This is not asking for much. This is simply asking for the due process of law to take its logical course.
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The national budgets in Liberia have consistently failed to benefit the people, instead primarily benefiting a small group of political elites. For example, both former Presidents Sirleaf (Unity Party) and Weah (Coalition for Democratic Change) touted their budgets as significant achievements for the nation, highlighting initiatives like the Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Pro-Poor agendas.
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Using “covert operations” as the pretext, Mr. Weah put at least USD 122m at the disposal of his NSA Director and agents, without regards to the Annual Budget law or the NSA Act[1]. And between the periods of 23-Februry-2018 and 11-December-2023, Mr. Henric Pearson II, working in collaboration with and under the direction of Mr. George Weah, then President of Liberia, made at least 227 individual transactions in which they took bags to the CBL, stuffed it with cash and simply walked out the Bank’s door. Not one cent of that money was ever accounted for
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