A Critical Look at the Education and Leadership Debate That Is Unfolding In Liberia Liberia is the only country on planet earth that the so called intellectuals think education is the only measurement in determining a good leader. In recent times, Montserrado County, senator elect Ambassador George M. Weah, has been attacked for what his critics claimed is his inability to speak “Good English”. Mamadee Diakite, a radio talk show host in his face-book publication, classify Ambassador George M. Weah, as a man of no substance. “DECEMBER 26, 2014: Henry Costa of the Voice FM seeks my reading on CDC Weah as Montserrado Senator-elect. Like the northern star, my position is constant: I hold firmly that the majority of the electorates in Montserrado favored popularity above performance. Weah brings no substance to our political governance chemistry. His lack of understanding of basic national issues is a troubling reality buttressing my findings on CDC Weah that he will not perform. I hope he proves me wrong!!! I am also deeply afflicted by the creeping noise that he getting ready for the Presidency in 2017” The arguments Mamadee Diakite, and other critics of Ambassador George M. Weah, are enunciating, and trying to use speaking “Good English” as the so measurement in determining a good leader is intelligently weak, and cannot past the test of intellectualism among emerging scholars, and academicians of Liberia. Their arguments are faulty. Since, the independence of Liberia in 1847. Liberia had so many educated presidents, who spoke very “Good English”, but the country Liberia is still under developed. The educational achievements of some former presidents of Liberia, and this current corrupt President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is a contradiction, as it relate to development in Liberia. Beginning with corrupt Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was born on October 29, 1938, in Monrovia, Liberia. A graduate of the College of West Africa at Monrovia, she went on to receive her bachelors degree in accounting from the Madison Business College in Madison, Wisconsin, a degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University. Bio (2014) biography/people/ellen-johnson-sirleaf-201269 With the above education as it narrate to leadership. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf after sitting nine years in power, has failed to transform the lives of the ordinary citizens of Liberia. To the extent, citizens of Grand Bassa County are now eating from dumpsites. FrontPage Africa newspaper of Liberia (2014). Former President Charles G. Taylor, another classic example of an educated president without development. Even though it is widely debated in the circle of intellectuals, that the level of support President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has received as president of Liberia, former president Charles G. Taylor did not received such level of support. Charles Taylor was the president of Liberia from August of 1997 until August of 2003, when he stepped down amid accusations of war crimes. The son of an Americo-Liberian and a Gola tribe member, Taylor was educated in the United States, and earned a degree in economics in 1977 from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. Info please (2014) infoplease/biography/var/charlestaylor.html Former President Samuel K. Doe, the least educated among past presidents of Liberia was developmental oriented. He was the major brain behind the building of government ministers and agencies in Liberia. To name a few of them, the defense ministry in Congo town, the health ministry in Congo town, and the list goes on…………. The late President Samuel K. Doe, had only accomplished primary education when he became a career soldier, presumably because of lack of other job opportunities. In October 1979 he was promoted Master Sergeant in the Liberian Army. He was in his 4th high school grade, and attending night school classes when he, and group of soldiers seized power, assassinated President William R. Tolbert Jr, and established, for the first time in Liberia’s history, military rule over the country. President Samuel K. Doe (1980-1990) liberiapastandpresent.org/SamuelKDoe.htm The Liberia political history is so distinctive, and has proven the failure of the so called educated past and present Presidents of Liberia. Mamadee, and other critics of Ambassador George M. Weah, should read the history of Liberia. It is good to be critical of Ambassador George M. Weah, but with fairness, and historical references. The way forward for Liberia and the Liberians people is not electing an educated person as President of Liberia. Education, and speaking “Good English” is good, but should not be the so measurement of good leadership in Liberia. Liberia need a leader with unwavering love for Liberia and the Liberian people. This is the quality I see in Ambassador George M. Weah, and I will not relent in giving him my support, in his quest to become president of the Republic of Liberia. God Bless Liberia! The author of this article Dashward A. Wumah, commonly called Political dash; is a political commentator. He currently lives in Germantown Maryland, the United States of America. He can be contacted at politicaldash@yahoo or 763-400-6828.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:58:47 +0000
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