Eighteen months into the Unity Party government of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, the country is witnessing a troubling sequence -nearly every major project now being celebrated, commissioned, or paraded as a “Boakai achievement” was either conceived, initiated, or completed under the previous government of President George Manneh Weah and the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC).
I am happy to be back here in New Kru Town—this historic and revolutionary community. This is the home of the Movement for Justice in Africa, and undoubtedly, the heartland of the Liberian People’s Party (LPP).
No sooner had the man once hailed as the “number cruncher” and “war-room specialist”, Senator Amara Konneh, offered a sober interpretation of both international projections and domestic realities, the Unity Party Government turned on him with the speed and venom of a jilted lover.
On 2nd July 2010, the global community birthed a new UN agency, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), whose establishment was made possible by the coming together of member states and the powerful global women’s movement.
In Liberia, history does not whisper, it screams. The names may change, the faces may age, but the pattern of power remains strikingly familiar; when citizens rise in protest, the powerful respond not with humility, but with insult.
As we commenced the 178th anniversary of our independence celebrations yesterday, July 18, 2025, I extend my warmest greetings to every citizen of our beloved nation.
Today, we celebrate 'evil over Good' to extend, we no longer can distinguished 'evil from good' anymore. As a result of this truth, both good and evil are now struggling with identity crisis. Therefore, for one to become a leader in the land once governed by constitutional democrats & republicans, one must seek to marry both good and evil?
