WASHINGTON, DC – Africa’s globally acclaimed biomedical scientist and inventor, Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan, M.D. of Liberia, has cautioned the “Liberian population and key opinion leaders not to politicize the health of former Vice President Joseph Nyumah Boakai and to stop interfering with Hon. Boakai’s political future and legacy.”
“Only Hon. Boakai with advice from his attending physicians can together make informed health-related decisions regarding his [Boakai’s] political and daily activities,” Dr. Nyan, the German-trained medical doctor emphasized in a recent interview.
Dr. Nyan further said, “VP Boakai has a unique and distinguished public service legacy that must be recognized, hailed, and promoted, instead of people making unprofessional statements that tend to undermine the honorable man.”
In the last several days, the local media in Liberia has been flooded with mixed statements about former Vice President Joseph Boakai’s health when he checked in at a local hospital at ELWA in the suburb of Monrovia.
Dr. Nyan added that “In our growing democracy, nobody has the right to unduly pressure another to exit the political stage.”
Amidst these concerns, several opinion polls still put Boakai as the leading opposition presidential contender in the coming 2023 general elections due to be held on October 10th this year in Liberia. He was vice president for 12 years in the previous government.
The scientist, who is also a political activist for good governance, further encouraged Liberians at home and in the diaspora to “pray for the health of its leaders and for a broad united opposition camp to mobilize voters as the country prepares for elections in October this year.”
Dr. Nyan, further said that “the country [Liberia] is dying in the hands of the Weah government and needs to be resuscitated by a combination of visionary and truly patriotic national leaders with integrity and impeccable public service credentials.”
He is the internationally acclaimed scientist who invented the rapid multiplex test for infectious diseases, now called the NYAN TEST which detects and simultaneously identifies 3 to 7 infections within an hour using just one test. He has been granted three US patents for his technology and won several awards.
Last year from August to December, Dr. Nyan spent time in Liberia and Ghana, where he performed five months of unpaid-volunteer services in teaching and lecturing at various medical and academic institutions of learning. His academic and public health service has been described by the people as patriotic and giving back to the country. Dr. Nyan has been performing such national service yearly since 2005 when he taught medical microbiology at the A.M. Dogliotti School of Medicine of the University of Liberia.
DEFENDER DOGS OF JOSEPH N. BOAKAI AND THE NEW LIBERIA!
There are no profound arguments that readily absolve the ailing former vice president by his attack dogs except that they deem him an honorable man who should not be disrespected!
Such proposition is an exclusionary tactic that puts the candiate above public scrutiny thus giving him a blanket color of secrecy that hides his ailing health status.
Politics is not about age or respect it is about delivery to the needs and aspirations of the people! There is a terrible perception damage of the ailing former vice president! He is very sick, he is an 80 years old man with an implanted pacemaker! He is cancerous!
Boakai is an epitome of secrecy that enabled the greatest ever concessionaire contract frauds that till date still affect our people with no accountability!
Liberia should be above this by now! Our democracy must forster its precedent – the right to free speech, the right to peaceful assembly and protests, and the right to freedom of the press, and of information, etc, etc.
No one should be a sacred cow here in our democratic dispensation. Those who want to make him so have got something to hide! Either they want to exploit his ailing health to benefit ascendency to state power in the unfortunate circumstance of Mr. Boakai’s demise or simply they want to become a new influence of stealing and looting in government!
It is the cardinal duty of any democracy to tolerate, revile, or even insult when necessary, based upon the principles of fairness! Joseph Boakai will be of no exception!
How is a walking dead defended?
By sycophancy, and only in Liberia!
Dr. Chris, with all due respect for you scientific prowess, no one is interfering with JNB’s legacy. JNB’s legacy is already part of Liberian history. We are interfering with his future, and it’s our right to to so, esp. as he is a candidate for the highest office in the land this year. We are closing in on 6 years incomprehensible ineptitude. Our current president is unable to execute the functions of his office and the likes of Nathaniel McGill took advantage, even though we never elected McGill. Now, after 6 years of “looting” and “singing” sickness of George Weah, Liberians are very very concerned not to elect another president who will be controlled by unelected people with nefarious intent. As long as JNB puts himself out to be Our Leader, he has tied up his future with our future, and as such, we have a right to know his health status. Why not JNB address the Liberian people directly on his health status? Don’t they deserve to know if he’s capable to run the affairs of state. Remember, JNB’s health concern is not just for election campaign period, and it’s not just for another 1 or 2 years. We are concerned to know if he can operate with high energy for another 6 years. Dr. Chris, it’s our right to know. And JNB will face this question EVERY SINGLE DAY of his campaign.