Main Opposition Congress for Democratic Change has launched a blistering attack on President Joseph Boakai’s administration, accusing it of corruption, fiscal recklessness, and the deliberate mismanagement of the national budget.
In a sharply worded statement posted on Facebook, CDC Secretary General Jefferson Tamba Koijee dismissed the administration’s proposed “Budget of Hope” as a “declaration of war against the Liberian people,” warning that the country is being steered toward economic collapse.
Koijee referenced an analysis by Senator Amara Konneh, which he said exposes what the CDC views as widespread fiscal deceit within the Unity Party–led government. His post, titled “Unity Gang of Thieves Are Polluting Our Noble Country While Our People Are Being Subjugated to Naked Misery,” accused the administration of betraying public trust.
Koijee, a former mayor of Monrovia who is currently under U.S. sanctions for alleged human rights violations, argued that the budget is “a declaration of war against the Liberian people,” insisting that Senator Konneh’s assessment “unmasks the grim reality” of the country’s fiscal situation. According to him, President Boakai is “dragging the country into a full‑blown national crisis through deliberate fiscal deceit and reckless mismanagement.”
He alleged that funds intended for schools, hospitals, sanitation, and agriculture have “vanished into the shadows of corruption.” He further claimed that the Executive Mansion is receiving unearned allocations; Roberts International Airport is being “starved” while its US$2 million budget line “disappears”; and sanitation funds for the Monrovia City Corporation are being diverted to “patronage and waste.” Koijee also accused the government of overspending on youth programs beyond legal limits while young Liberians “remain jobless and hungry.”
“This is not leadership — it’s betrayal,” he declared, alleging that the administration has turned the national budget into “a political weapon designed to enrich loyalists while the nation sinks.” He criticized the Legislature for what he described as the hasty approval of a US$256 million “General Government” allotment without adequate oversight, calling it “an accomplice act in this economic crime.”
Koijee warned that if the Senate fails to intervene, Liberia risks deeper poverty, instability, and chaos. “The signs are already visible — the system is collapsing under the weight of greed and deceit,” he said, concluding that President Boakai is “gambling with the nation’s survival.”
