By: Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS Originally Published in April 2023 President George Weah of Liberia fancies himself as a “man of peace”. And that he was ultimately elected President, I would suppose many Liberians also thought so. I suppose ex-President Ellen Johnson equally thought so when she made him “peace” ambassador. Or maybe she was “buying” the peace, since the only group carrying out repeated
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By: Wonderr K. Freeman Originally Published in September 2022 Liberia has been abuzz with talks of sanctions, since the US Government Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC/Treasure Department) slammed sanctions on three senior Liberian public officials. These sanctions are being widely celebrated locally, as the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) regime gets entrapped in myriad financial scandals. However, as expected, those accused have understandably protested their
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By Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS Originally Published in March 2023 Liberia is awash with talks about Joseph Nyumah Boakai’s pick of running mate. As the logic goes, once Mr. Boakai chooses his deputy, then the election is over. That’s the popular refrain, though pushed around without any “polling data” to back up this claim. I’m not one of those who think so. By the way,
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By: Atty Wonderr Koryenen Freeman Originally Published in March 2014 The United States Government (USG) Human Rights (HR) Report (2013) recently summed up a grim indictment of Liberia’s fight against corruption. According to the USG HR Report (2013), the Liberian Anti Corruption Commission (LACC), the Liberian Government lead agency in the war on graft, during the year (2013), “received 25 cases, investigated 23 cases, and recommended
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Originally Published under a pseudonym – in June 2019 No one doubts that President George Weah is a master dribbler. He has the medals to show for this claim. And in the political realm, master dribbler Weah has also exhibited quite some dribbling skills on the likes of Brumskine, Tubman and Sirleaf. In politics, however, a dribbler is view quite unfavorably, more as a schemer. And
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Originally written under a pseudonym – February 2021 Big men rule Africa – and mostly to the detriment to the average citizens. The judicial system, which ought to bring some solace to the common man never ceases to disappoint. As these big men ruin the countries they are entrusted with, they are simultaneously blaming colonialism, neo-colonialism, the multilateralism, globalism, the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF,
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