Promoting the Positives

Some are hammering the President for not accomplisning anything since she took over the presidency in Liberia five years ago. I couldn't let that pass me by without kicking and screaming. I wrote this to the editor or Frontpageafrica:

Weedor and Flomo are best friends. Weedor has an inquiring mind. Flomo, on the other hand, is not too accommodating and wishes they were playing soccer instead:

Weedor: My man Flomo, come here let me ask you something.

Flomo: Weedor, my man, I coming; let me finish eating my cold bowl

Weedor: OK, but hurry up.

Flomo: OK, Weedor, what is it you want to ask me?

Weedor: Flomo, I know you are a big Unity Party man and you go around here boasting about it. What have you and the oldma done for the Liberian people?

Flomo: Weedor my man, don't give me hard time. Don't you listen to ELBC; don't you watch TV?

Weedor: Da all you will tell me? I don't listen to ELBC and I don't watch TV. Don't give me cheek; just tell me what your Party has accomplished in five years.

The sentiments from Weedor are the same concerns being voiced out by most Liberians living in the Diaspora. Unity Party members and sympathizers are of the opinion that the accomplishments of the past five years by the government are not being enthusiastically conveyed to the world. If the good news is out there, most people are not aware.

An all-out war on information dissemination needs to be taking place, for if the government does not sell itself, no one will know what is happening. Right now, people are wrapping themselves around the negatives and are completely oblivious of the positive things that the government of Liberia has accomplished.

Corruption has overshadowed news of the new Fendell campus of the University of Liberia. Corruption has covered over the news of the modern-day hospital in Tappita. How many Liberians have been employed since the beginning of 2010? How many schools have been refurbished and how is the transportation business in the country?

How is the hospital in Tappita being staffed? Is the hospital functioning in any capacity? How are the people in Belle Yalla? Are they benefiting from the road that just connected their town to greater Liberia, since 1847? How are the road conditions from Grand Gedeh to Maryland? What's in the pipeline when it comes to modernizing our highways?

Right now, the government of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf needs an Ed Bouey (sp), the roving reporter. Liberians need to know about all the positives in every nook and in every corner of the country, since Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf took the ship of state. No positive stone should be left unturned. Liberians all over the world want to be able to boast about accomplishments. The opposition will take care of the negatives, but the positives must prevail, especially as elections season draws near.

Another thing that needs tackling is the eye sore that is West Point. The government cannot afford to allow the opposition to mesmerize the people of West Point with rhetoric and good-for-nothing talk. West Point has been in the news since I first heard about the place. And that was during the Tolbert administration. My sister lives there; I have been there. The place is an insult to humanity. West Point is a project that the government must take head-on with an infusion of cash and humanitarian efforts.

No matter how tough our people are, replacing those shacks with high-rise apartment buildings will change minds in West Point and other areas in similar condition. Is anything in the pipeline regarding these areas? We want to hear about it.

Finally, and for once in a long time, the Iron Lady has done something that many of her supporters wish she had initiated long ago. If EJS can hire you, EJS has the constitutional right to also fire you, especially if a pile of documents on her desk continues to implicate people she thought were genuine and patriotic, honest and trustworthy.

It was a good thing that the president threw out the babies with the bath water. Those loud-mouth and crying babies will remain out there, wet and dazed and sore. The good babies will be picked up, wrapped up, hugged, and brought back into the house. Unlike God and Abraham and Sodom and Gomorrah, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf made sure the good and wicked suffered the wrath, knowing all along that the good ones will prevail over evil doers.

Information, information, information! We want to hear all the positive news about happenings in Liberia since January, 2006. The Ministry of Information must make this priority number one. Information in this age should not be scarce.