After 12 years of the country's best opportunity to fundamentally root transformative social change was squandered, Joseph Boakai became the fall guy for the country's collective hurt. During the presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, poverty became overwhelmingly endemic, while corruption, nepotism, and patronage became the order of the day. The result of the December 26 runoff election was a rebuke of kleptocracy in favor of inclusion and transformative social change. The Weah victory should be nothing more than unsettling basic ideas and assumptions about development and transformative social change. Incompetent, selfish and greedy people must be eliminated so as to fundamentally bring about transformative social change.

Source: Front Page Africa January 05, 2018 02:26 UTC