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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By Wonderr K. Freeman On April 24, 2024, The Supreme Court of Liberia ruled that article 56 of the Liberian constitution is no greater than article 89. The Court, in their wisdom, opined that just as article 56 gives the President the power to appoint [officials], article 89 equally gives the Legislature the power to create additional agencies of government and ascribe unto them powers in
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by Wonderr K. Freeman & Marc N. Kollie Over the past years, as regime in Liberia shuffled between Unity Party (UP) and the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), the country has long been rocked by many corruption scandals – often flagrant and unconscionable. So many corruption cases, but very few cases of accountability[1]. In many cases (and on a sad note too), the culprits have been
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