Liberia’s Weah a Pond or Conduit for the Protection of Others
The Editor,Let me run my mouth small-small on this failed and fake democracy we have in Liberia. In Liberia, since this was black on black so a distinction had to be made between “Americo-Liberians” and natives or tribal Liberians. In Liberia natives constitute 95 percent of the population going back 200 years to this day. And the vestiges of this failed and fake democracy are still inherent in present day Liberia regardless who is at the wheels. Weah is simply a pond or conduit for the protection of others.
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May 14, 2020 00:45 UTC
WFP Liberia Announces Arrival of 16 Brand New 4x4 Vehicles for its Liberia Country Operations
The vehicles will replace the WFP aged fleet of Toyota Land Cruisers that the Organization started disposing of in October 2018 and February 2020 in line with its assets management policy that requires the replacement of all vehicles that have reached the terminal mileage. Monrovia – The World Food Programme in Liberia has announced the arrival of a fleet of sixteen (16) brand new 4×4 Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles from the WFP Fleet Center in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The Toyota vehicles – including 7 Hard Tops, 4 Double Cabin Pickups, 2 Single Cabin Pickups, 1 Land Cruiser L200, and 2 Land Cruiser Prados – were leased in January 2020 under WFP’s Global Vehicle Leasing Programme (GVLP). The vehicles will replace the WFP aged fleet of Toyota Land Cruisers that the Organization started disposing of in October 2018 and February 2020 in line with its assets management policy that requires the replacement of all vehicles that have reached the terminal mileage. The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies, building prosperity and supporting a sustainable future for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
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May 14, 2020 00:11 UTC
Mo Ibrahim Foundation announces the 2020 Ibrahim Leadership Fellows
LONDON – The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of the 2020 intake of Ibrahim Leadership Fellows, who make up the programme’s ninth cohort. The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships programme is a selective programme designed to identify and prepare the next generation of outstanding African leaders, providing them with mentoring opportunities in key multilateral institutions. Commenting on the new Ibrahim Leadership Fellows, Mo Ibrahim, Founder and Chair of the MoIbrahim Foundation, said:“I’d like to congratulate our three new Ibrahim Leadership Fellows who are joining this unique programme. Hanan is an economist with extensive experience in economic policy research, project management and supporting the growth of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. The application process for the 2021 Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships programme will open in August 2020.
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May 14, 2020 00:11 UTC
Consequences of the Valor of Due Diligence: A Bamboozled Republic of Liberia
The GOL has not been conducting due diligence therefore it has produced platforms for being bamboozled. When an individual or institute sets out to conduct due diligence it is usually misconstrued as being based on distrust and creates unnecessary despondence. The GOL has not been conducting due diligence therefore it has produced platforms for being bamboozled. Bamboozled Executive BranchThe Executive Branch has been bamboozled on uncountable occasions due to the failure to do due diligence. If all this is true, Speaker Chambers has bamboozled the people of Maryland, the Legislature and the whole of Liberia due to lack of due diligence.
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May 14, 2020 00:11 UTC
Happy Birthday William R. Tolbert, Jr. The 19th President of the Republic of Liberia
While the indigenous majority felt the change was occurring too slowly, many Americo-Liberians felt it was too rapid. You were then the second Liberian president after President Benson to speak an indigenous language, and you promoted a program to bring more indigenous persons into the government. To the outside world, this peaceful transition seemed to signal political stability in Liberia, remarkable in Africa where political turmoil was the norm. By the late 1970s, your administration became increasingly open to overtures of economic assistance from Libya and Cuba. Happy Birthday Mr. President as we celebrate your 107 Birth Anniversary Posthumously.
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May 14, 2020 00:00 UTC
Can the Narrative of Policing in Liberia be changed?
I wish to address policing in general in our Liberia. Is it possible to change the police narrative: – This is a big question but really not that difficult to handle? Is it possible to change the narrative of the police in Liberia: – I read a book not so long ago which was speaking about people and nation building? Is it possible to change the narrative of the police narrative: – The Police Chief is the head of the police department? The police chief is the chief law enforcement officer in the nation.
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May 13, 2020 23:48 UTC
Buyers Beware of Corona Cure from Madagascar
If you carefully look at the video and photos of the “mailman” or messenger who delivered this unproven Corona “cure” to Liberian President George Manneh Weah at Liberia’s Roberts International Airport early this week, strangely, the messenger himself wore Corona face mask and hand gloves. If the cure works, then why would he need a face mask? And what does the latest ECOWAS “refute” claim means for its members proclaiming the “Corona Cure Is in Africa” mantra? So why won’t Madagascar convince the African Union first before telling the world it has the cure for the Coronavirus? So yes, ECOWAS has just distanced itself from the Madagascar Corona “cure” because it says there is no “proven medical and scientific test results” thus far, which is the prudent thing to do.
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May 13, 2020 23:37 UTC
When Will Liberia Go on from Transitional?
For this reason, elections are the only concrete avenues that citizens must use to reward or punish candidates based on their integrity and performance. This refusal has made Liberia to remained in a transitional stage from July 26, 1847 to present in terms of free, fair, peaceful elections, and good governance practices after elections. These are still far from the norm because of the history of questionable electoral transparency, accountability, rule of law and good governance. While participatory governance promotes many forms of citizen participation for equal fighting chance opportunities and competing ideas beyond elections, this practice elusive in Liberia. So, the question is when will Liberia go on from transition?
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May 13, 2020 23:37 UTC
Liberia: Please Reopen the Airports, We Want to Go Home
The Editor,I think the government should please allow passenger flights in the country so others who are not citizens of Liberia can be able to leave the country. We can’t be locked down as well why we are not benefitting from the Liberian government. Airlines are planning to resume starting June 1, 2020. But most airlines are saying they will only come for passengers when the restrictions place on the airports are relaxed or lift up. Some of us need to go, our government are not willing to get us out of here, so we need to find our own way out.
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May 13, 2020 23:26 UTC
Liberia: Dumoe’s “Statement Is Protected Under Our Laws,” Cllr. Tiawon S. Gongloe
Monrovia – The Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA) President, the erudite lawyer, Cllr. Tiawon Saye Gongloe, has stated that Manipakei Dumoe’s statement of not wanting free rice but putting AK-47s in the hands of poor people in Monrovia is protected under the laws of Liberia. People can disagree with each other Liberia National Bar Association President, Cllr. Even though he said he doesn’t like the statement and won’t make such personally, but Cllr. Under the State of Emergency, the one thing that is never suspended is the right to habeas corpus.”On Tuesday, May 12, another lawyer of Dumoe, Cllr.
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May 13, 2020 17:26 UTC
Liberia: ‘Release Dumoe Immediately,’ Urey Tells Government
Mr. Benoni Urey, Chairman of Collaborating Political Parties and Political Leader of All Liberian PartyMonrovia – The Standard Bearer of the All Liberian Party (ALP) and Chairman of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), Mr. Benoni W. Urey, has called on the Liberian government to immediately release from detention Mr. Menipakei Dumoe. President [George] Weah needs to intervene and ensure that this man is released immediately,” Mr. Urey said. According to him, going on social media to restrict people from expressing their minds is not good for the maintenance of peace in Liberia. No group of people in Liberia makes more threatening remarks on social media than officials of this government and the CDC,” the ALP Political Leader added. Mr. Urey also termed as “unlawful” the search and seizure, which was carried out at Dumoe home.
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May 13, 2020 00:56 UTC
Liberia: Advocacy Group Seeks for Justice against Community Chairman’s ‘Killers’
BFF has also called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of all those suspected to be involved in the killing of the community chairman as required by the laws of Liberia. The release said, victim Roosevelt Anthony Mayango Jallah was stabbed to death while he and other community leaders were constructing a self-initiative community bridge aimed at facilitating free movement of residents, goods and services as the Rainy Season fast approaches. Quoting preliminary investigation of the Liberia National Police (LNP), BFF said the knife injury on victim Jallah’s body was six inches deep and three inches wide. According to BFF, suspect Sally was subsequently transferred to LNP Central Hqs on Friday, April 3rd. The late Roosevelt Mayango Jallah, was buried on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, at 10 am.
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May 13, 2020 00:43 UTC
Liberia: Still Making Table Clothes at 94
By Mae Azango, [email protected]Aunty Bade, who is a retired Registered Nurse, makes table cloths. She uses the skills she learned when she was in her teens on Bromley Mission, many years ago. Amazingly, she makes these table cloths for recreation and therapy. Interestingly, she does not forget the patterns she uses to make a table cloth design after so many years. Speaking to this newspaper, her niece Ms. Tucker said, Aunty Bade usually sits for hours and works without complains.
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May 13, 2020 00:33 UTC
Liberia: Kingsley Lington Academy Provides Food, Non-food Items for Students Amid Covid-19
Before he began presenting the 25-kg 60 bags of rice to the students’ parents, Mr. Sabato J. Neufville, proprietor of the school, told them how they (school administration) has missed their students so badly since the last two months. We have been sitting in our corners thinking how we can give back to our students,” he said. The parents Neufville has also made their kids happy. The Kingsley Lington’s students’ parents were grateful to Proprietor Sabato Neufville for giving them rice and other non-food items“Majority of the people in Liberia, live off of what they get daily. In her special message to parents, she stated, “We are all in this together; please take the disease seriously.
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May 13, 2020 00:22 UTC
Liberia: Children’s Parliament Frowns against Government’s “Total Silence” on Violations against Children
Liberian Children’s Parliament Forum Speaker Prince Saydee and others in a recent protest to call the government attention to abuses against a childrenMonrovia – The Liberian Children’s Parliament Forum (LCPF) has frowned at Government of Liberia’s “total silence on the numerous violations against children in Liberia,” during this State of Emergency. “A 38-year-old Victor Trokon, an officer of the Liberia National Police was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in Paynesville. Is this the ‘Change for Hope’ they told us about when children are being sexually harassed? Is this the ‘Change for Hope’ they told us about when police brutality against women and children are on the increase daily? It promotes children’s participation, forbids violence against children, frowns on the usage of children in trafficking, child labor, early child marriage, children on the move, stateless children, sexual exploitation and abuse, children deprivation, children discrimination, and all odds against the well-being of all children.
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May 13, 2020 00:19 UTC