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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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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Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS Originally Published in June 2023 As Liberia marches toward October 2023, there is both hope and anxiety in the air. On the one hand, it’s clear that they will finally be able to dump their celebrity President who, after 6 years, is still clueless about the job. After voting for “Hope for Change” or “Change for Hope”, Liberians are facing hopelessness
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By Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS Originally Published in April 2023 In 1980, in his famous “Redemption Song”, the Jamaican reggae legend, Bob Marley sang the lyrics: “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds”. This song, was seemingly based on the speech of another renown Jamaican and pan-Africanist, Marcus Garvey (1937), who said in [Nova Scotia, Canada]: “We are going to
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