Category: Politics & Society

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Repeatedly Calling for “Independent” Foreign Investigation is not the Solution, Reform Police and Prosecution Services

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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Learning the hard way to differentiate the age of Methuselah from the wisdom of King Solomon; The Boakai’s presidency one year on.

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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ECOWAS must end the Sahel schism; It’s in nobody’s long-term interest.

It is now common knowledge that Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have opted to create a rival regional economic bloc, comprising of at least 73 million people -with a combined GDP of nearly USD $60 billion . Effectively, this bloc is a 60 billion-dollar market splintering from ECOWAS. This is not something for the regional bloc to waive. But why are they splintering?

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For His US$ 178m Covert Operations Fraud, George Weah Should Be Charged and Prosecuted.

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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Meet the Government of Liberia Officials Auditioning for US Sanctions (PART-3)

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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Politics & Society

What Kind of Country Is This?

Keynote Address at the Commemoration of the 2nd Triennial Convention and the Celebration of the 6th Anniversary; Theme: “Decent Work Through Unionization” By Tiawan Saye Gongloe, on October 4, 2024 at 11:30 AM Government officials, leaders of the National Union of Hospitality, Aviation, Communication, and Energy Workers, other union leaders, distinguished guests, members of the 4th estate, ladies and gentlemen: Before going any further, allow me

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