By Socrates Smythe Saywon
MONROVIA – Following his return to Liberia on Saturday, August 23, 2025, after attending the TICAD 9 summit in Japan, President Joseph Nyumah Boakai addressed questions from journalists regarding the eviction and demolition of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) headquarters in Monrovia.
President Boakai emphasized that the action was strictly a legal matter, insisting that the government was simply executing the law and that politics had no role in the operation. “The law is the law. It is not the government. It is the government’s implementation of the law. The police were ordered to carry out the action, and they did. That demolition was simply the removal of people from premises that did not belong to them,” he said.
The Liberian leader repeated his assertion to underscore the separation between government authority and legal enforcement. “The law remains the law void of politics,” Boakai told reporters. “The law is the law. It is not the government. It is the government’s implementation of the law. The police were ordered to carry out the action, and they did. That demolition was simply the removal of people from premises that did not belong to them.”
President Boakai’s comments came amid heightened political tension following the demolition, which has drawn criticism from CDC officials and supporters, who view the move as politically motivated. Boakai, however, maintained that the government acted within the bounds of the law and that the eviction was a lawful enforcement of property rights, rather than an attack on any political entity.
The CDC headquarters demolition has since generated nationwide debate over the intersection of politics, law enforcement, and civil liberties, with President Boakai’s administration defending the action as an impartial application of legal authority.
