MONROVIA – The Secretary General of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Jefferson Tamba Koijee, has sharply criticized the early actions of President Boakai’s Unity Party (UP) administration, claiming that the entire Recuse Mission was a desperate operation, not one intended to improve the lives of struggling Liberians. He added, “The UP government is a risky mission for chance and not change.”
According to Koijee, the deaths of several individuals from Bea Mountain, the AFL, and other places demonstrate that UP is not about genuine change. “How can you murder people in cold blood and refuse to bring perpetrators to book, but continue on a spree that is devilish?” Koijee wondered. “It’s all desperation. When the President wakes up every morning, instead of thinking about changing lives, he only thinks about appointing thousands of desperate UPists,” Koijee claimed.
He alleged that, as part of this desperation, the Vice President is sending over twenty-five names as consultants to the Civil Service Agency (CSA), among many other excesses. “The Liberian people cannot trust such a move by a desperate group of hustlers bent on securing better livelihoods for themselves instead of supporting the masses. Prices have skyrocketed, the economy is horrible, and life remains unbearable, while UPists in high places keep striking deals only for their benefit,” he intimated.
Koijee, the former City Mayor of Monrovia, maintained that the Liberian people voted for chance—for these UPists—rather than any meaningful change, which he views as regrettable. “It’s time to stand up for real change,” he said. “The reawakening moment is not far away, when the people who were duped to remain in their current state will reverse this nightmare that we all are engulfed in as a nation and people.”
