We Must All Condemn Bad, Uncouth Behaviors

The old ways and frisky attitude are showing their ugly heads again in the new Liberia. Not many people want anything new in a country that is witness to the killing of more than 250,000 of its people and the destruction of the entire nation.

The Auditor General that is trying to bring a sense of accountability to a nation riffed with corruption and care-free pillage is being ganged up on by the Deputy AG and a host of mean friends. This sort of thing should never be allowed to take root in a civilized society. The rule of law must prevail, even if the culprit is a Tubman or an Obama.

The gangster behavior of Matu Tubman on the person of John Morlu, her boss, ticked me off. I had to react after a long hiatus:

For some reason I am realizing everyday that I have an opinion on every issue that affects our daily existence, especially those issues concerning the way things are being done in Liberia, the country in which I was born.There is a constant war between two great entities waging inside of me. One entity is adamant and very supportive of my intention of keeping the feet of our leaders to the fire of progress and meaningful change. The other entity is also as adamant and very forceful in trying to convince me to let up on my insistence that our leaders be held accountable for the many missteps that continue to keep the country and people of Liberia at the mercy of the few elites and at the lowest end of the progress ladder.

When there is a long period of silence when an opinion from me is nowhere to be heard, it dawns on me that I am being weighed down by that entity that wants me to mind my own business and let the stealing, insults and assaults and unaccountability continue unabated. When this war is reaching a feverish pitch, my whole life becomes miserable and I feel as if I am being deprived of a special kind of oxygen. And because I want to keep living and fighting against the injustice and inequity that continue to befall the people to whom I belong, I will no longer tolerate or condone any suggestion from that entity that is stubbornly bent on trampling upon my desire to keep living for justice. And so, with that inalienable desire to keep fighting and scratching and screaming, until a new dawn shows its face in the land of liberty, here I go.

The first thing on my agenda is the story about that computer in Ma Ellen's living room that is so accessible to every Tommy, Kerkula and Finda. You mean to say well-to-do people would leave their homes and go to the president's house to transact the country's business on one computer? And who is this Finda Koromah of Sierra Leone who has sworn to God that she was never in Liberia and who even tried to deny that she is a friend of our president? That story has me scratching my head and wondering: What was EJS thinking.

The next thing I want to touch on is Counselor Estrada Bernard. He has been trying to reintroduce himself to the Liberian people. I don't know whether he had to do what he did. Telling the Liberian people where he was born, where he went to school, how he helped to build the Mount Coffee Hydro Dam, and how he has worked and continues to work so hard to build Liberia; all his remaking of himself has nothing to do with the $600,000 and the scratch card money. I strongly feel and will like to suggest that the president's sister's husband, Counselor Estrada Bernard, should be retired for the wonderful services he rendered the country. His present position in the Mansion should be given to someone else. When you are the head of a government, not everyone that says Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. Your own friends will try to drag you under, Madam President.

And my last thing for now is the news that the Deputy Auditor General, Matu Tubman, along with her best friends, decided to assault and insult her boss, John Morlu. It is true that the president is setting up an investigative team to look into the matter. But the mere fact that a Tubman would be beating on the Auditor General of Liberia is bad news for the government. After 27 years of a Tubman being in the Mansion, after 27 years of paving the road from Monrovia to Totota, wouldn't it be wise for Matu Tubman to play it cool especially if her father is the head of the National Port Authority and she is Deputy Auditor General of Liberia? How in the world will the audit report from NPA be without flaws? This nepotism thing in Liberia needs to stop.

It seems that Mr Morlu has a lot of enemies in Liberia. Even some Legislators, the people who are supposed to make the laws for the country, are saying things that could endanger the life of this young son of the land. How will the country ever be built if transparency and accountability are seen as enemies of the state? Why, when the people of America complain about their leaders who are corrupt and don't pay taxes, these leaders will quickly pay those taxes and sometimes resign their posts? Why are corrupt Liberian leaders so shameless and will continue to remain in government no matter what the people think of them? What happened to self dignity and self pride?

The ultimate sacrifice of 250,000 plus Liberians must never be forgotten. What is going on in Liberia and the negative reactions from those who should know better do not fare well for the country. And those who are the culprits are those who were praying and lamenting day and night for Liberia to be better. Living in foreign lands for these people was a nightmare. Now that Liberia is slowly coming back to normal, see what is happening.

If our country is ever to prosper and if the people are to ever benefit as true citizens, then we must all condemn the crazy and uncouth behaviors of those who want nothing but to see a second collapse and total destruction of an already ruined state.