There comes a time in the life of a nation when silence becomes betrayal. And once again, I refuse to stay silent in the face of intellectual dishonesty, brazen hypocrisy, and government-sanctioned mockery of our people’s suffering. Liberia’s current Information Minister, Jerolinmek Matthew Piah, has once more earned his notorious reputation not as a statesman, but as a reckless verbal loose cannon a man whose entire career is defined by what I have consistently described as verbal ejaculation.
Charles Taylor's war of military conquest launched to dethrone President Doe under the banner of NPFL on December 24, 1989 had garnered for him a traction of penetrable military dividends with considerable territorial controls in a relatively short period of six months, by June of 1990.
Tears do not age. They fall today as they did decades ago, fresh, bitter, and unanswered. My name is Cephas MMD Flanzamaton, the last son of the late Col. Moses M.D. Flanzamaton, Sr., a man whose life was stolen by tyranny, whose legacy was buried not with honor, but with silence. My father was executed under the brutal regime of President Samuel Kanyon Doe, a man whose hands were soaked in the blood of innocents, yet whose name is now being polished and dignified by the current Liberian leadership.
If President Joseph Nyumah Boakai is truly committed to fighting corruption, then his actions must move beyond temporary suspensions and politically convenient indictments. The real test lies in how his administration confronts Liberia’s fragile institutions, the Legislature and Judiciary, and how it balances its domestic campaign with mounting pressure from international partners.
I bring warmest greetings and best wishes from His Excellency Joseph N. Boakai, President of the Republic of Liberia and the good people of Liberia to His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana and the good people of Ghana.
From the brutal dragging and death of Liberia’s first dark-skinned President, Edward James Roye, in 1871, to the 1980 military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, and the devastating 1989 civil war, Liberia’s political ruptures have often been justified as revolts against corruption.
U.S. diplomats in several overseas missions received an urgent cable from Washington this spring. They were told to ask nine countries in Africa and Central Asia to take in people expelled from the United States who were not citizens of those nations, including criminals.
The news of suspensions and investigations involving key officials in the Boakai administration, alongside indictments of former officials of the Weah government, has sparked public enthusiasm and renewed hope in Liberia’s long, embattled war against corruption. For many, it marked a long-awaited beginning of a new era.
Liberia stands on the edge of a dangerous precipice. President Joseph Boakai’s administration has launched a high-profile war on corruption; an initiative long overdue in a nation suffocated by decades of graft and abuse.
Picture a bustling marketplace where some vendors openly bully others, stealing their wares, silencing their voices, and claiming their stalls simply because they are stronger. This isn't just a scene from a local market; it's a stark reality playing out on the global stage of politics.
