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Meet the Government of Liberia Officials Auditioning for US Sanctions (PART-1)

Mamaka Bility, notwithstanding these laws and the Constitution of Liberia, in collusion with others, and with the apparent acquiescence and approbation of the President of Liberia, Mr. Joseph N. Boakai Sr., illegally negotiated the dubious USD 80m deal and caused the machines to be brought to Liberia in contravention of the all the listed statutes and the Constitution. In her attempt to get as big a kickback as she could get, it did matter to her the land mass of each county or the estimated population; each county was entitled to nineteen machines

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Liberia: The Rescue Mission’s Quixotic Quest for Chinese Capital and Economists from Heaven.

There are many reasons why Liberia is poor. Let’s start with the salary of GOL officials. The average VIP salary, as seen from Table B above, is about US $200k per annum. A lawmaker in China’s Congress will need to work for at least ten years to make one year’s salary of the average top GOL official. But it is the GOL officials that go to beg the Chinese for alms, for grants, and loans.

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A Constitutional Rewrite, not an Amendment; That’s What Liberia so Desperately Needs.

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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Nobody Stupid Here: A Response to Our National Legislature Sweet Talk on Systems Audit

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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Liberians must demand a new constitution before 2029 to end the naked greed of the budget mafia clan.

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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How many constitutional violations must it take to impeach a President? The Case of Liberia’s Joseph Nyumah Boakai

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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