So, having being President Sirleaf’s number two for twelve unbroken years, he was cocksure that ‘being President’ was an easy job. You get to boss ministers around, pocket corrupt wealth for you and your close family members, take credit for all the good things that happened in your administration and blame the opposition for all that goes wrong. To VP Boakai “being President” was a such an easy job.
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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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