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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Back to the “Imperial Presidency”: Unity Party’s Unsavory Assault on Ellen Sirleaf’s Defining Legacy
By: Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS In Africa, it is common practice to see a leader purposely trying to undo the legacy of his/her predecessor. Often, that happens when an opposition leader takes the helm of power. If anything spells the legacy of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s presidency, it is the plethora of government institutions whose officials were given fixed contractual terms (a.k.a. tenure). This was one of
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By. Wonderr K. Freeman, CFCS Whoever thought Alex Tyler, the man widely derided in Liberia as Corruption King King, would resurface in Liberia’s political structure? Yeah Alex Tyler, you heard me right, the man from “Oil Block 13 consultations” and the same man from “BigBoy 1 & BigBoy 2 [mining license] scandal”. Alex Tyler, a real “gbanna man” has been forging and reforging alliances to just
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Authors: Wonderr K. Freeman & Marc N. Kollie This series tackles the delicate subject of the failure of law enforcement and public prosecution in Liberia, which explains why the US government (USgov), lately, seems to prefer targeted sanctions (much to the liking of the public). Whereas, in part one, we focused on law enforcement, in this part two of the series, we focus on the failure
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Authors: Wonderr K. Freeman & Marc N. Kollie News of additional sanctions by the United States government (USgov) on Liberian public officials have been greeted with the usual glee (i.e., opposition supporters), and scorn (i.e., by ruling party stalwarts). Liberians have a love-hate affair with corrupt politicians. They love to vote for corrupt politicians in a transactional voting system, and then when they do not get
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Wonderr K. Freeman, CFCS, Attorney Fighting corruption is clearly a legal matter. In Liberia, unfortunately, there is a long history of ruling elites “playing politics” with the fight against corruption. In Liberia, the appearance of fighting corruption is far more important than actually fighting corruption. If one looks at the way things play out in Liberia, it’s not far-fetched to say that “to appear” to be
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