By Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS About a month ago, I wrote the article: Liberians must demand a new constitution before 2029 to end the naked greed of the budget mafia clan (https://wonderrfreeman.com/liberians-must-demand-a-new-constitution-before-2029-to-end-the-naked-greed-of-the-budget-mafia-clan/law-governance/07/). It’s been exhilarating to hear chatters in the media about the need to relook at our Constitution. However, in these chatters, I frequently find that ‘constitutional amendment’ gets mixed up with the call
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For your information Nyonblee-Dillon, Fonati-Fallah, Liberia has systems in place. We have a constitution, statutes, regulations and institutions to enforce and implement our laws. It is you, our political leaders, who refused to follow the laws and systems that are already in place. So, you think that when you say “systems audit”, then you will be let off the hook. As you envisage in your limited understanding, with a “systems audit”, you can just say: “Okay, our corruption is no big deal; it’s just some little systems issues that we are going to fix soon!
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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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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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By. Wonderr K. Freeman, CFCS Whenever counting and naming are mentioned in the same sentence, it is not surprising to have a flashback to the old Christian hymn with lyrics: count your many blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. Feeling my “preacherman” vibes, I choose to reflect on this Christian hymn and mention “counting and naming”
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By: Wonderr Koryenen Freeman If there were a “World Cup” for telling parables, maxims, and proverbs, this would be hands-down back-to-back trophies for Liberia. For the typical Liberian, telling parables is how we make sense of our less-than-enviable lives. So then, when the Liberian man asks, “When chicken white?!!”, … the listener or the audience aptly responds…”Ay white” (i.e., it’s white). This parable, “When chicken white…it’s
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