ROBERT SIRLEAF’S SENATORIAL DECLARATION LAUNCHES THE SIRLEAF’S THIRD TERM PRESIDENTIAL BID? Every nation has its basic identifying characteristics, identifying marks burnt through the pleasant experiences of collective consensus or the unpleasant chaos of national upheaval. For Liberia, two issues stand out. One, developed through collective consensus is that a Liberian can be a citizen of only this country. The other, made abundantly clear by the blood of our compatriots and those who desired to make it otherwise is that a President serves no more than two terms. Today, we see a President prepared to make us pay with our blood for her errors as she attempts to bring this country to its knees in the service of the Sirleaf dynasty. Robert Sirleaf, a foreigner will be declaring his intention to contest for the Senate seat of Montserrado County. He has already been assured by his mother, as poster boy of the Sirleaf’s dynasty that she will do everything to ensure that he wins, including using the machinery of the state where necessary. It would appear to any well-meaning person that people should hope to hold office in the country of their citizenship, but the Sirleaf’s are not well-meaning. They swim in a pool of stolen wealth, as every audit report has testified and every leaked recording publicized. Former Auditor General and patriot, John Morlu stated emphatically that this government is three times more corrupt than the corrupt regimes it replaced when he spoke while in office at the beginning of their first term. Now even that figure has become an understatement, and Mr. Morlu has recognized the need to enter politics and join ranks with the popular people’s movement, the Mighty Congress for Democratic Change and liberate the people from the shackles of Ellen’s creative suffering imposed on the Liberian population. But Robert Sirleaf is not running because the Sirleaf’s want a voice in the Senate. After all, the President’s party, UP has the highest number of seats in both houses and all her nominees, except for one, during both terms have had a smooth confirmation. And he is also not running because there is intense clamor by the people in Montserrado County for the type of leadership the Sirleaf’s provide. After all this is the same county where citizens, less than two weeks ago were breaking the President’s fence in disgust, after their homes where overtaken by flood. The Sirleaf’s have a whole new ball game in mind. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wants to run for a third term in office, contrary to our organic law, and wants to butcher the constitution of Liberians by first implementing a daring move. Have her son, who is a foreigner apply to contest the Senate. Have the National Elections Commission accept him. Have the Supreme Court endorse his candidacy. If there is no national uproar, then the cronies at the Constitutional Review Commission will propose the removal of term limits to the Liberian Presidency. This situation would not occur in vacuum. President Sirleaf is vigorously hunting peace hoping for unrest that would enable her to clamp down on her critics even more. It is just inhumane for the President’s men to be unable to prevent labor matters from derailing the sanity of strategic Nimba County. It is even more discomforting that she would pledge to use County Development Funds to repair damage despite the fact that her investigation committee has not yet been formed, much less made recommendations. It is completely baffling to her while there has still not been any violence in Grand Gedeh, which they could blame on the CDC, despite her persistent hunt of citizens from that county. It is unclear if the President has not learned anything from the SIFCA’s case in Maryland or the LAC situation in Grand Bassa which could lead to better management of the nation’s concessions during her time. But wondering is something Liberians have a lot of time to do these days, particularly since even in the urban center of the county where the President’s son wants to be a Senator, pregnant women have to walk distance to unequipped health facilities even when there is heavy rainfall. We think it is the right of every Liberian to seek to serve in posts in which he or she is legally fit. Sadly, that does not apply to Robert Sirleaf, who is a foreigner, popularly known as (Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue of Equatorial Guinea) should rather be concentrating on returning those stolen wages and salaries he took from our nation’s taxpayers under extreme pretense. It should not be overlooked when state security apparatus document on recording the interactions with a foreigner purporting to be a Liberian. Madam Sirleaf cannot give Montserrado to Robert Sirleaf because she has never owned it. And even if Robert Sirleaf’s late father were to risen from his grave to Chair the Elections Commission and his mother serve as the Co-chair. The task is not for any one Liberian anymore. The challenge is now to our national identity and principles: Is this a nation of laws, or a nation of demagogue? This is not a situation that can be shoved by the roadside. Before she was chased out of the country by Robert Sirleaf, the President’s elder sister Jenny Bernard advised her that she and “Mommy-boy Robert Sirleaf” will be making the country unsafe, as the people’s patience would not go beyond the regime turning over power in 2017. She asked her sister to recognize that despite spending over US$40 million and being awarded the Nobel Prize during the electoral period. The President still could not claim a clear cut victory when there was no recognized legal restriction. How much more difficult would it be if she tries to challenge the past rejection by the people and existing legal limits? These words felt on deaf ears and she chose to leave Liberia for New York over six months ago and preserve her life from the threats within and anger of the masses without. Let this be a clear message to the international community whose sweat, dollars, blood and tears form a portion of the currency with which this peace has been obtained. You have a chance to safe a situation before it occurs. We are prepared to lead and the masses are prepared to stand together, fight together, go to prison together and have sleepless nights together and together ensure that Montserrado County will never be surrendered, no matter how many millions are wasted, as long as there is breath in our lungs and life in our bones, we will not surrender our melting pot! As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Truth pressed to the ground will rise again.” And so could the masses. As mere job seekers and hustlers who seek to send this country back into mayhem will improve their visibility by attacking me, let them know, that not only now, but even always I will remain in this intellectual fight for a very long haul while been robust and vigilant. …. Until my pen runs dry, more enlightening articles will be realized.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:33:36 +0000
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