Tag: Joseph Boakai

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Assessing the Boakai’s Presidency, 100 days in; “when chicken white, it’s white”!                              

By: Wonderr Koryenen Freeman If there were a “World Cup” for telling parables, maxims, and proverbs, this would be hands-down back-to-back trophies for Liberia. For the typical Liberian, telling parables is how we make sense of our less-than-enviable lives. So then, when the Liberian man asks, “When chicken white?!!”, … the listener or the audience aptly responds…”Ay white” (i.e., it’s white). This parable, “When chicken white…it’s

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President Joseph Boakai is Asking for Impeachment; I think the Liberian Legislature Should Give Him Exactly What He’s Asking for.

By Wonderr K. Freeman On April 24, 2024, The Supreme Court of Liberia ruled that article 56 of the Liberian constitution is no greater than article 89. The Court, in their wisdom, opined that just as article 56 gives the President the power to appoint [officials], article 89 equally gives the Legislature the power to create additional agencies of government and ascribe unto them powers in

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The Unmasking of Joseph Nyumah Boakai: Ten Ways “Oldman”Boakai Showed He’s not a Leader – and Never Was 

By Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS      Originally Published in March 2023 Liberia is awash with talks about Joseph Nyumah Boakai’s pick of running mate. As the logic goes, once Mr. Boakai chooses his deputy, then the election is over. That’s the popular refrain, though pushed around without any “polling data” to back up this claim. I’m not one of those who think so. By the way,

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