A Patriot’s Diary
With Ekena Nyankun Juagbe-Droh Wesley
In a democracy, a government, most often than not, is duly elected to deliver on account of the letter and spirit of the governing party’s manifesto. In this day and age, all peace-loving Liberians unmistakably stand on the side of unscratched stability. For 14 years, we did not know peace in the homeland.
In a senseless war, we tore apart the small West African nation that had known peace for more than 145 years. Even proponents of the brutal war acknowledged it as ‘senseless!’ So what was the point? The quest, jostle, and greed for power.
In 2003, the Accra Comprehensive Accord backed by our international partners ended the madness! A power-sharing Transitional Government was formed to take the country to elections. A last-minute chicanery by leaders of the Transitional leadership to clench onto power failed. Liberians went to the polls in October 2005 to decide their political future. A run-off, in the end, produced a new democratic administration.
We have transitioned from war to emergency. We reckoned the test of time to progress from emergency to quick impact and later the herculean task of reconstruction and national healing. National healing? We achieved so little. Our wretched international image had to be restored. We worked our butts to cancel debts totaling US$4.5 billion although there’s nothing to show. Such is the plight of a resource-rich country that is socioeconomically wanting.
For 12 years, we saw significant progress even though critics of Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf think otherwise. Whatever the diverse perspectives, Liberia experienced tremendous progress given where we came from. Anti-Graft institutions were adequately resourced and independently functional. The media proved vibrant, critical, and vociferous! All was not rosy! A John Morlu-led General Auditing Commission (GAC) aggressively led the campaign against waste and abuse. County Development Fund was introduced, which saw more inclusive local participation in determining development priorities.
In spite of a dozen critics Madam Sirleaf had to put off with, at no time did we unearth any form of a grotesque or inventive pretext called a foiled coup, crazy theories of forced takeover let alone cache of arms discovery. Yes, there was a huge drug bust amid a joint US-Liberia intelligence collaboration.
At the dawn of crucial general and presidential following the democratic transfer of power from one elected government to another, Liberia’s Joint security seems to be up and doing with the confiscation of a huge cache of arms and ammunition at the Freeport of Monrovia and another in Brewerville, outside Monrovia. It makes sense that our security apparatus appears to be doing something of late. What is in fact new? Arms cache bust? If indeed the discovery is legit, we say hats off to the Joint security.
But we have been inundated with petty crimes and armed robberies for the last couple of years though. What is our hope in the Joint security that had demonstrated a lame-duck posture over the last few years with inconclusive investigations or farce in the name of some kind of futile inquiry to get to the bottom of major scandals? No Liberian wants to hear let alone beat the drums of war. Our country has gone through a lot of turbulent history that ruined our sanity as a people.
Like all previous baseless investigations, what hope there is that we could not be headed for another fiasco? Amid a pattern of the futility of scandals, corruption, and bogus deals that have engulfed the Weah-led administration, why should Liberians have any reasons to trust the government after all? With a history of endless charades called investigation, this is another attempt to appear to be seen to be doing something when the real motive is to plot a sinister scheme that will perpetuate the regime and its enablers in power.
The CDC came to power by accident! No blood was spilled in the process. Any gimmick that would deny Liberians the legitimate outcome of a democratic election will not go unpunished. We all know the attendant consequences of the rigged elections of 1985. Those who deliberately choose to ignore history will surely pay a heavy price. Don’t say we didn’t remind you though.
Just three things to remember;
1- Town trap is not for rat alone
2- When two elephants fight the grass suffers
3- Power struggles
4- Economic war
5- Bullets don’t know a special person
6-Education plays a dirty role in our so-called educators
7- ignorant is a deadly disease that is hunting our educators
8-Illiteracy is what killing Mama Liberia.
9- The most dangerous thing that is killing Mama Liberia is the power struggles for presidency, Senatorial and Representative is what taking Mama Liberia to her grave.
Rabbit want to be president it’s smart according to it
Sheep want to be Senator it’s pure
Snake want to be Representative
it’s dangerous and scary.
People that orchestrated the war never did a a little Like development. Emmanuel Shaw stole money and sold Air Liberia, Ellen said level the Executive Mansion , Prince Y. Johnson killed sitting president (these killers) are the caused of the Masses suffering today.