Questions for Dr. Amos Sawyer: Why you think that Liberia health care system is good to meet the medical challenges of ordinary Liberian and not you? If you have medical challenges, why cant you resign your position? Since ordinary Liberian cant benefit from Ellencare (Dr. Sawyers medical insurance company), why can you help to develop a good health care system that will meet the medical challenges of people in West Point and others. Dr. Sawyer the fact is that you left Liberia because of Ebola. Ebola came to Liberia in March and you left in Mid-July (are saying you do not know the exact date you left Liberia). Dr. Sawyer return home today and join the fight against Ebola. Below is Dr. Sawyer own writing from FPA: Written by Amos Sawyer acsawyer45@aol Published: 02 September 2014 The Editor, I have been in the US since mid-July attending to my medical challenges. Having now sorted out return travel issues in view of the suspension and uncertainty in airline schedules, my wife and I will be back on September 11th. I want to let it be known that the idea of forming a transitional government is ridiculous and runs contrary to what Liberians now need to effectively address our governance challenges in the face of the Ebola epidemic and moving forward. We should strive to strengthen our governance institutions and processes and make them more effective rather than uproot them and replace them with tentative or interim governance arrangements. We should be striving to increase our internal cohesion in order for us to act together in solidarity at this time rather than widening the political differences among us and creating questionable temporary governance institutions. We need to move forward by deepening constitutional governance, not by undermining it. As a senior level public official chairing the Governance Commission, my work and that of my colleagues is to recommend policies and strategies for strengthening our system of constitutional governance. The formulation of a decentralization program and its implementation, the implementation of a code of conduct that will guide the behavior of public servants, the rationalization of the agencies of government so that they function more effectively and efficiently, the development of partnerships with CSOs, the implementation of the National Reconciliation Roadmap and our National Vision of One People, One Nation, United for Peace and Sustainable Development are our preoccupation. These cannot be achieved through dismantling constitutional government and setting up intern structures. Therefore, those folks who are calling for an interim government are moving in the wrong direction and could never count on my support or that of others who are committed to this agenda. My appeal is that we all find a silver lining in this terrible epidemic to first contain it and then eradicate it so that we can move our country forward not backward. Dr. Amos Sawyer acsawyer45@aol frontpageafricaonline/index.php/op-ed/letters-comments/2866-interim-government-ridiculous-ideal
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:12:40 +0000