Politics

CDC Machiavellian Strategy Ahead of 2020 And 2023 Polls, How CPP Can Avert a Predatory Plot

July 11, 2020 admin2Liberia, Politics, Weah0 comment

By Martin K. N. Kollie In this brief analysis, I have exposed four (4) vicious strategies of CDC and advanced five (5) suggestions to CPP ahead of 2020 and 2023 polls in Liberia. Without Montserrado, CDC and Weah’s second term bid is a DEAD DREAM. Opposition Senator Abe Darius Dillon currently poses serious threat to CDC’s political lifespan. If the opposition wins Montserrado County for the second time in roll in this upcoming December’s senatorial election, it means that CDC is done for good. Weah and his idol worshippers…

Must we allow an opportunist like Sylla to pollute Liberia’s political corridors with such parochial agenda once more? No..No..No. We must be bold and honest about how we do politics or business in Liberia. The action of Sylla can only fit in the triangle of opportunism, egocentrism, and sectarianism. Since Pres. Weah along with his government has become so unpopular, Weah's intent is to rig 2020 and 2023 polls.

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The Three-Facedness of Ali Sylla – ALCOP, CDC, or UP? – Part 1

July 7, 2020 admin2Alcop, Ali Sylla, Politics0 comment

By Martin K. N. Kollie In 2014, young Ali Sylla had a golden opportunity to etch his name in Liberia’s political history. The Unity Party (UP) chose Sylla as its Senatorial Hopeful to contest in Liberia’s populous County, Montserrado. Young Sylla cheerfully chose to eat his lunch before recess period. This was a missed opportunity. Even though Sylla was never the most qualified or the most competent candidate to contest on UP’s ticket in 2014 Senatorial Election, but he was preferred, through a democratic process, because the Unity Party thought that…

This fact is often framed as a continent-wide struggle between the ancient and the modern, between Africa’s age-old tribal allegiances and its modern political institutions inherited from Europe. According to this narrative, African societies are yet to be fully reformed by modern life. When faced with elections therefore, voters continue to express old tribal solidarities rather than deciding based on ideology or policy. This argument presents European colonialism as a civilising mission against the customary order, albeit one which failed to fully de-tribalise its subjects. The 1884 Berlin Conference, far from dividing Africa among European powers, becomes seen as a unifying exercise that brought tribes together into modern political entities. As foreign affairs commentator Jonathan Power wrote in a 2006 article for The New York Times:

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Colonialists didn’t fail to root out Africa’s tribal politics. They created it.

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 admin2Africa, Ethnic, Politics0 comment

Standing in line at a Nairobi polling station to cast my ballot in Kenya’s 2017 presidential election, I struck up a conversation with fellow voters in the queue. The result was a foregone conclusion, said one of the gentlemen proudly. We had the numbers and our candidate was going to win. Everyone else agreed. No one needed to ask which candidate we would be voting for. That was another foregone conclusion. We were speaking in Kikuyu, and the Kikuyus were voting for President Uhuru Kenyatta. In the end, Kenyatta was…

The silence on the part of principals of major political parties is alarming and shameful. Boakai, Brumskine, Urey, and Cummings cannot be playing coy while surrogates and middlemen remain caught in the crosshairs of this political fluke that is CDC.

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Boakai, Brumskine, Urey And Cummings Play Coy

April 15, 2019 admin2Liberia, Politics0 comment

The Editor The silence on the part of principals of major political parties is alarming and shameful. Boakai, Brumskine, Urey, and Cummings cannot be playing coy while surrogates and middlemen remain caught in the crosshairs of this political fluke that is CDC. If your voices cannot be loud and resounding at this time, the people don’t want to hear a damn thing from you when it is time to campaign. You guys have a moral and fiduciary responsibility to be loud, consistently and constructively confrontational, and direct. Politics…

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Liberian American Journalists Demand Apology

February 2, 2017February 5, 2017 admin2Journalism, Liberia, Politics0 comment

New Castle, Delaware — The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) is demanding a public apology from Liberia’s Minister of Information Culture Affairs and Tourism (MICAT), Eugene Nagbe, for his recent verbal attack on two local Liberian journalists. ALJA said it wants Minister Nagbe to openly express regrets to broadcast journalists, Emmanuel Capeheart of the Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) and Estelle Liberty Kemoh of Power TV for the unnecessary public humiliation they suffered at his hands while executing their professional duties at the Capitol Building in Monrovia.

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Charles Brumskine Eyes Liberian Presidency Again

December 15, 2014December 15, 2014 adminfeatured, Liberia, News, Politics

By Timothy T. Seaklon Former Liberty Party (LP) political leader, Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine, may reconsider his decision of quitting politics as he eye the Liberian Presidency again. When asked whether he could return to politics if petitioned to contest for the Liberian Presidency in 2017, Cllr. Brumskine simply replied, “It will be considered.” Cllr. Brumskine who contested twice for the Liberia Presidency in 2005 and 2011 said the desire to contest is there but the decision to do so will be made by the people. Cllr. Brumskine, speaking to…

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Liberian Senate Wants Central Bank Out Of Politics

February 15, 2014 adminLiberia, News, Politics

By Obediah Johnson The Liberian Senate has amended several provisions of the 1999 Act that created the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL). The decision to amend Part IV Section 13, Sub Section 3 (a-e), Part II Sub Section 1, Section 17 and Part V, was taken on Thursday, February 13, 2014 during a regular session at the Chamber of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Monrovia. According to the new amendment, the Executive Governor of the CBL and members of the Board of Governors “shall be prohibited to contest political…

Politics

Mary Broh’s apology wasn’t about apology!

November 25, 2012December 14, 2012 adminLiberian Legislature, Monrovia Mayor, Politics

By Ralph Geeplay Recentl, the Lord Mayor of the City of Monrovia, Madame Mary Broh finally appeared before the Liberian Senate few days ago and delivered the apology they long sought. It seems the legislators have been begging for the apology as if some how to legalize and validate their importance, what else can I say. Incensed, that the Lord Mayor of Monrovia ignored several attempts to appear before the senate in a matter that had all to do with the judiciary and the courts, it threw to…