Are Liberians really Christians?

Can you imagine if we were NOT Christians in Liberia? Can you imagine what our little country would be like if none of us had any Christian beliefs at all? We live the CRAB lifestyle now as it is and go to church every Sunday, pray every day, I wonder what if we didn’t have the little Christianity we have in us, what would be going on in Liberia. Take Prince Johnson, the born again Christian, but yet he ordered his driver to be beaten.

We preach we are Christians but yet live worst then the devil himself
We claim to be so educated but yet do nothing with our education for our country
We love our country but hate our countryman
We love each other but will disrespect each other at a drop of a dime
We get married but yet want to live a single life

It must be true, we must be the third race: Black people, white people and Liberian people!

Mittal Steel TO EXPORT 4 MILLION TON BY YEAR END; AND 100 MILLION TONS BY 2015

I think Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has done enough damage, those little crumbs she has been throwing off the table to our people has done nothing but insulted them. We should let the Market Women take over Liberia. They may not be as educated or the best leaders but they make good judgment and use common sense. Ellen on the other hand, thinks with her panties and purses!!! Her P&P thinking is going to put Liberia in the toilet soon!!!


At the rate things are going in Liberia, I see another war before the end of her second term if she does not get a grip of things. If I was in her shoe I would regroup and rethink my position and try to make sense of it before things really get out of hands and out of her control for good. Her major issues are:

1. She (Ellen) is unable to control her employees, they are using and abusing the systems and she is doing nothing about it.

2. She is having a hard time keeping up her lie-lie to her western friends. They will soon do to her what they did to Charles Taylor.

3. She will be the cause the Nigerians will return to Liberia for good. Again, thinking with her panties will cause us BIG!

4. Ellen and her employees are so corrupted even two years old can see it. I am sure her friends Hilary, Steve and all are getting very frustrated

with her and her quest to make her son the next president of Liberia.


Let start making room for the Nigerian United National because they will be force to make Liberia their new home again!!…mark my words!!!

All you sleeping “Liberians”, please wake up, this is no time to sleep.

Thank you,

Roberta

Mittal Steel TO EXPORT 4 MILLION TON BY YEAR END; AND 100 MILLION TONS BY 2015

I think Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has done enough damage, those little crumbs she has been throwing off the table to our people has done nothing but insulted them. We should let the Market Women take over Liberia. They may not be as educated or the best leaders but they make good judgment and use common sense. Ellen on the other hand, thinks with her panties and purses!!! Her P&P thinking is going to put Liberia in the toilet soon!!!


At the rate things are going in Liberia, I see another war before the end of her second term if she does not get a grip of things. If I was in her shoe I would regroup and rethink my position and try to make sense of it before things really get out of hands and out of her control for good. Her major issues are:

1. She (Ellen) is unable to control her employees, they are using and abusing the systems and she is doing nothing about it.

2. She is having a hard time keeping up her lie-lie to her western friends. They will soon do to her what they did to Charles Taylor.

3. She will be the cause the Nigerians will return to Liberia for good. Again, thinking with her panties will cause us BIG!

4. Ellen and her employees are so corrupted even two years old can see it. I am sure her friends Hilary, Steve and all are getting very frustrated

with her and her quest to make her son the next president of Liberia.


Let start making room for the Nigerian United National because they will be force to make Liberia their new home again!!…mark my words!!!

All you sleeping “Liberians”, please wake up, this is no time to sleep.

Thank you,

Roberta

From: Eric S. Kaba

I read the passage below from the UK Guardian newspaper about the on-going discussions related to anti-homosexual laws in Liberia and I could not resist responding to it.



"The second bill – drafted by the ex-wife of the former president Charles Taylor – would make gay marriage a crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail. Jewel Howard Taylor told the Guardian: "[Homosexuality] is a criminal offence. It is un-African." She went on to say: "It is a problem in our society. We consider deviant sexual behaviour criminal behaviors. "We are just trying to strengthen our local laws. This is not an attempt to bash homosexuals.""

Jewel Howard Taylor was married to the savage and barbarian, Charles Ghankay Taylor. Taylor started and carried on a brutal civil war that took the lives of more than 270,000 Liberians and destroyed the country. He also fueled and supported another civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone that caused the lives of more than 90,000 people in that country. He became a thieving and murderous ruler/dictator when he stole the 1997 election and forced his way into the Executive Mansion as a result. Jewel Howard Taylor, the former wife of a savage and barbarian, has no moral authority to to talk about "deviant sexual behavior" or "deviant behavior" of any kind and type. She is a reprobate human being and a hypocrite of the highest order!

When did she know about "deviant behavior"? Was it after her husband's Anti-Terrorist Unit (aka Actual Terrorist Unit) maimed and murdered hundreds of innocent Liberians? Could it have been after Taylor drugged tens of thousands of unsuspecting kids in Liberia, gave them Kalashnikovs and ordered them to rape their own mothers, sisters and aunts and then set them on fire while they were alive?

Or was it after Jewel Howard-Taylor stole nearly $2.3 million the government of Taiwan gave the Taylor regime to renovate the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia?

Now in fairness to Jewel, I have to also refer to this statement made by the arrogant, corrupt, inept, nepotistic, ineffective and inefficient Liberian president, Ellen johnson-Sirleaf which she made during an interview with the UK Guardian newspaper:

"In a joint interview with Tony Blair, who was left looking visibly uncomfortable by her remarks, Sirleaf told the Guardian: " We've [we have] got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve.""

God forbid if one of the "traditional values" Ellen was referring to is not her "tradition" of "donating" $10,000 to warlord Charles "The Barbarian" Taylor and imploring him to "burn down Monrovia". Are her "traditions" of naming her sons, friends and Unity Party officials to some of the most key and lucrative positions in her government and stealing millions of dollars from Liberian government coffers and remitting same into overseas bank accounts while slowly but surely apportioning the country among her foreign friends and supporters among the "traditional values" she wants to preserve? Or how about the "tradition" of ignoring Liberian law and doing nothing about audit reports and reports/recommendations that emanate from other investigations of impropriety in her administration? I wonder not knowing that prostitution, especially under-age prostitution, is a crime in Liberia is one of the "traditional values" President Sirleaf wants to preserve.

Another economic, social and political time bomb is being slowly put together in Liberia. It gathers more and more deadly blast power every day. It will explode one day when it reaches critical mass. The one built during 110 years of public corruption, economic inequality and political and social injustice under successive True Whig Party regimes began exploding on April 14, 1979 and again on April 12, 1980. It morphed into a 14-year devastating civil war, begun on December 24, 1989, that totally destroyed Liberia.


Eric S. Kaba
Certified Public Accountant



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Minister of Finance is receiving $30,000 salary and $18,000 worth of gas slip and scratch cards monthly. US$126 Thousands Dollars To Renovate His Offi

Amara Konneh: Minister of Finance
US$126 Thousands Dollars To Renovate Office

I take this time to inform you about an ugly act at the Ministry of Finance which can break our entire country down. It has become disturbing to the extent that, if we all do not step inside, we must get ready to be blamed for supporting the hardship of the Liberian people.


On February 10, 2012, when Hon. Amara M. Konneh took over as Minister of Finance, he promised the Liberian people that he had the power find enough money from anywhere to fix the Hydro. He also said that our salary with our gas and scratch cards was going to be cut to support the Hydro. What we are seeing today is different. Now, Ministry of Finance employees scratch cards and others benefits are being cut to furnish the Office of the Finance Minister that did not even need renovation.


Members of the Press, let me inform you quick that Minister Konneh has spent over US$126,000 (One Hundred and Twenty Six Thousand United States Dollars) from government money on himself and he say that he is renovating his office, the place that you all have visited on a number of occasions and did not see need for spending this kind of plenty money to fix it. Two days after the man took office, he single handedly give the contract to one Miatta Jones Design Lab for the renovation. Minister Konneh left all the construction companies in this country and gave the contract to this woman who knows more about decoration. He went to work and fooled the PPCC people to give him no objection to give the contract to Miatta Jones Design Lab because he said that the place was damaged.


The PPCC too never came to check the office of the finance minister to know whether or not the place was truly damaged and needed to be fixed, and they just give him the go ahead based on the story he told Madam Peggy. According to some of our colleagues, it was the fastest no objection Madam Peggy ever give to Finance Ministry. Before Minister Konneh could take over, the ministry had a contract with G. B. Dennis Group of Companies for minor renovation but Minister Konneh said that he needed a special office. Then Minister Konneh also told Ministry of Finance comptroller to give US$8,000 (Eight Thousand United States Dollars) to G. B. Dennis Group of Companies for spoiling their work. G. B. Dennis Group was the people that was doing minor fixing on the Finance Minister’s office before Minister Konneh was appointed.


Minister Konneh Surprise all of us when he told the people to throw away very decent and new furniture including chairs, desks and conference tables from the Office of the Minister and the Conference Room for new ones at the cost of US$21,000 (Twenty One Thousand United States Dollars). The internet service that was put in the Office of the Minister by the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) people with huge World Bank money was destroyed during Minister Konneh’s renovation exercise and a new vendor has been hired by Minister Amara Konneh for US$42,000 (Forty Two Thousand United States Dollars) to bring the service back. See below for the breakdown of money that Minister Konneh has spent just for fixing his office.

Transfer from Ministry of Finance Employees’ Scratch Cards---------
5,518.85

G. B. Dennis Group of Companies
8,000.00

Sub-total for Renovation
US$63,373.00

Office Furniture
21,000.00

Internet Service Outside of IFMIS
42,000.00

Transfer from Water and Sewage
$5518.85

Total Renovation Cost
US$126,373.85


Members of the Press, we are all confused about this kind of spending. Using huge sum of money to renovate office is Minister Konneh’s key priority. You can now see that Minister Konneh’s first project is himself. Now, all the people in his new team including his deputies, his assistants and the comptroller general are following his footsteps. They too are ready to fix their offices with the same government money and we all are afraid that by the time they all can finish renovating their offices, they will be spending more than half a million united states dollars from government money. It seems that renovation of offices by Minister Konneh and his new team is the new way of chopping government money. Is this how we are going to empower the young people that Minister Konneh had always given lip service to? Is this how we are going to create the 20,000 jobs every year when our first project is wasting money on the Minister? Why has Minister Konneh got so selfish so soon?

As an employee of the Ministry of Finance who is concerned about transparency and accountability; I see this kind of spending to be heartless, a mockery of our suffering in that Ministry and the suffering of the Liberian people. Worst of all, when teachers, security personnel, judges and public defenders, doctors and nurses are crying a ‘pay cry’, it is very bad for someone like the Minister of Finance to be wasting money on things that are not needed or required. You remain the best medium through which the Liberian people can get a clear understanding about this waste of government money and the abuse of the office of the Minister of Finance that should be very concerned about empowering us. For the sake of the Liberian people and the love for country, please do not hesitate to widely publish this information. Some of you should not mind your relationship or contact with Minister Amara Konneh and suppress this story. Our people need to know. We beg you press people.



Thanks.

Whistle Blower


Editor’s Note: This anonymous letter was received in the newsroom of the PAA a few days ago. The PAA editorial staff has determined that based on the Whistle Blower law passed by the Liberian legislature and President Sirleaf’s call to citizens’ to report on practices of corruption and waste in government, we made the decision to publish this letter. We leave it to our readers’ informed judgment regarding its veracity.


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MINISTRY OF FINANCE SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON RENOVATION

Date: March 19, 2012

When Minister Amara Konneh assumed his duties as Minister of Finance on February 10, 2012, the ceilings on the 9th floor that houses the Minister’s office and the 10th floor that houses the Ministry’s conference room and the Macro Fiscal Unit were waterlogged, brittle and decaying. (10th floor conference room would leak during the rainy season while meetings were in session). The large multi-use office space that accommodates the minister’s staff had exposed electrical wires that posed a danger to staff, peeling wall coverings, and built-in cabinets that were loosely and dangerously dangling in some parts. Walls in other offices were pock marked and had chipped paint. The bathrooms were dingy, lacked running water, had dysfunctional toilets and had a permanent, foul odor. The bathrooms were also a storage facility for water to be used not only for toilet use but also kitchen use. The kitchen, like the rest of the office, was roach infested, dirty and unsanitary. The Minister’s office had broken cabinet doors, crumbling floor tiles, watermarked ceilings and a termite-infested ceiling that dropped particles on the ground. The tenth floor had many of the same problems of the ninth floor, where the Minister’s office is located, and also needed repairs. The ceiling had rot and rain seeped inside. It was infested with cockroaches and rats. These statements can be backed up with photo evidence, which is attached.

Beyond the physical disrepair of the 9th and 10th floors, there was also a need to renovate office space to accommodate the Minister’s office staff. It was decided that the pre-existing Chief of Staff’s office and an adjacent office would be redesigned into for 12ft x 6.5ft cubicles in order to accommodate the staff. The hallway was also renovated to accommodate a new work space and the Chief of Staff’s office was relocated to a smaller space that had direct access to the Minister’s office.

During this inspection period and while considering the prospects for renovating, it came to our attention that the firm G.B. Dennis Group of Companies had been contracted about a year (signed March 15, 2011) to renovate the 9th floor office. Eleven months later, G.B.Dennis had only carried out minimum work on the kitchen, bathroom and other select areas. They had completed only 40% of work and had been duly paid by the Ministry prior to Mr. Minister Konneh. MoF and G. B. Dennis Group of Companies amicably terminated the contract. The Ministry of Finance’s Legal Department was involved in drafting the termination contract in order to ensure it was done within the bounds of the law.

Instead, the decision was made to seek the services of another firm (Miatta Jones Design Lab) with an excellent performance record to expeditiously renovate the 9th and 10th floors within a period of approximately two weeks in order to ensure the office was ready for the Minister to assume his responsibilities as soon as possible. In large part, the decision to utilize a different firm was predicated on the fact that the Dennis Group had only completed 40% of its scope of work on a contract that had been signed 11 months earlier. Furthermore, the unsanitary conditions found in the bathroom and kitchen areas were an outcome of the Dennis Group’s renovation work.

To complete the job in a timely manner, sole sourcing was requested and approved by the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission (PPCC) and the Miata Jones Design Lab was subsequently contracted by the Ministry of Finance to completely renovate the 9th and 10th floor (excluding the office of the Macro Fiscal Analysis Unit) for the sum of US$55,518.85. To pay for the renovation, the Department of Administration used transferred budget line items for water and sewage (US$5,510.85) and telecommunications, internet postage and courier (US$50,000) that was available and would not affect other functions of the Ministry, consistent with PFM Regulations on budgetary reallocations (section E8).

In order to ensure it complied with PPCC regulations as well as all other relevant laws, Miatta Design Lab contract was drafted and approved by MOF’s Legal Department prior to signing. Major elements of the contract included plumbing, electrical, masonry and painting, carpentry, and tiling. These elements were used to replace most of the ceiling, completely overhaul the kitchen and bathrooms so that water for kitchen use was not stored in the bathroom, and reconfigure the staff office to make it conducive for work and to fix other problems discussed previously.

The contract with Design Lab did not include furniture and office equipment, which was procured using the Ministry of Finance’s (MOF) existing processes and contractors that were in place prior to Minister Konneh assuming office. Working with the Procurement and Budget and Finance offices, new desks, chairs, and lounge furniture was obtained. In keeping with the procurement agreement that existed between MoF and the vendors (Mattar Trading Company and Beever Communications), totaling US$33,134.00 (based on the invoices). The old furniture from the 9th and 10th floors was redistributed to other offices within the Ministry. While some pre-existing furniture was maintained, new furniture was obtained in order to meet the needs of the Minister’s office and ministry’s conference room. .

To set the record straight, MoF spent $88, 652.85 to renovate the 9th and 10th floors. The new administration at the Ministry is committed to not only reforming the Ministry’s controls and systems, but also to its physical outlook so it represents Liberia and become a place that is conducive for conducting the nation’s fiscal business. In the coming weeks, more renovation works will be carried out beginning with the ground floor to control access to the building to only those who have legitimate business with the Ministry. Minister Konneh has further directed the Department of Administration to repair all office areas, bathrooms, and install a functioning water system including the installation of water coolers for employees on every floor in the Ministry of Finance.

Also no employee has lost any scratch card benefits or gas allowance as a result of the renovation exercise as reported by the so-called whistle blower. According to records, However, Minister Konneh has instructed with immediate effect the Department of Administration to carry out a thorough review of gas slips and scratch which is sparingly out of control. Today the Minister of Finance is receiving $30,000 and $18,000 worth of gas slip and scratch cards monthly respectively. In a senior staff meeting last week, it was agreed by the new management team that these benefits be reduced and the money allocated to renovate the bathrooms and install functioning water system and drinking coolers for employees. He has instructed the Department Administration to complete that project by end of June 2012 to coincide with the new team’s 100-day action plan.

Growing Pains: Sande Tradition of Genital Cutting Threatens Liberian Women's Health

Eric Wrote -> It is very interesting how "FGM" has suddenly become such a big (negative) issue with the Sande Society ritual. From the day I was a child up to this date I cannot recall a single incident in which a girl bled or even came close to the risk of bleeding to death as a result of this so-called Sande FGM”.

My respond -> Then why don’t you take your daughter(s) to get it done since you think it’s the best thing since slice bread? Many girls have bled uncontrollably to no avail; you need to talk to the women in your town or family about what they went through before assuming no bleeding took place my friend. The only reason men want this procedure done so they never have to worry about their wives cheating on them. But why a man would want his mate to never be able to share any sexual emotions with him is beyond me? FGM takes away a women sexual emotional feeling, why do you think most of you that are married to these women are cheating on them, they have nothing to share with you in bed because they don’t feel anything……why….because Eric el all took the feeling away from them. Who give you all the right to take away a woman’s pleasure, especially if it is done in an unsafe way?



Eric Wrote -> And I never was told a story nor did I hear one of anyone being hurt or dying as a result of the so-called Sande FGM.

My respond -> Go talk to the old ladies in your town, let them tell you the many stories they encountered. Let them tell you about the girls that never made it back mentally, physically and emotionally from Sande Society.

Eric Wrote -> I guess western civilization is so aggressively and rapidly taking over everything that what used to be a safe, honored and valued tradition in our country is now subject to ridicule and unabated criticism, often from the very same people whose traditional kinfolks practiced this ritual.

My respond -> Do you know the difference between Sande Society and the KKK? The KKK hurts people outside their race who they think is a thread to them! The Sande Society hurt their own race of people who they think is a thread to them!


RB

"You Can't Look Back" - BY GLENNA GORDON | JULY 7, 2009

"You Can't Look Back"
Liberian warlord-turned-senator Prince Johnson speaks out about the war crimes charges against him and his plans for the future.
BY GLENNA GORDON | JULY 7, 2009


At the end of last week, Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released a report examining the causes and consequences of Liberia's 14 years of brutal and gruesome civil war. The war may have ended six years ago, but Liberia's 3.4 million people are still reeling from a conflict that displaced a million people, left a quarter of a million dead, more than three fourths of women raped, and everyone traumatized.

The commission's report has made waves in the Western media for its condemnation of internationally popular President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf over her past support for rebel groups. But the charges against another high-ranking government official are far more serious and might have more-lasting consequences.



Prince Y. Johnson is now a Liberian senator. During the war, he headed a notorious rebel group called the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia. The final TRC report names him the No. 1 most notorious individual perpetrator and recommends that he be prosecuted for gross human rights violations and war crimes, specifically mass murder, extortion, destruction of property, forced recruitment, assault, abduction, torture, and rape. Johnson labeled the report a "JOKE" and vowed to resist with force any attempts to arrest him, raising fears of renewed violence. Last week, just before the report was released, freelance journalist Glenna Gordon went to his home on the outskirts of Monrovia for an exclusive interview. Excerpts:



Johnson discussed the (then forthcoming) TRC report, which he saw as biased and aimed at the wrong targets:

TRC is supposed to be neutral. It's supposed to be an institution that people of Liberia can depend on to help reconcile. But instead, it has disappointed the people of this country. It is supposed to bring together perpetrators and victims to reconcile both sides. But the TRC chose to keep the victims away from the so-called perpetrators. They never brought the two people together, so where is the reconciliation?



Reconciliation is not an overnight thing. It is a gradual process. There are many programs that can bring people together. If two people have a problem, how do you solve it? By keeping them apart? No, by bringing them together. The perpetrator can remember what he did and he may or may not say sorry. That's the first phase to begin reconciliation, and [it] was not done. And if you cannot reconcile yourself you cannot reconcile a nation.



Who supplied the guns to them? Who supplied the finance to buy the weapons? Who provided the training? It's a whole lot of questions that need answers.

The first group of people that bear the greatest responsibility is not the fighting man but the people who supplied and bought the weapons. I don't know who planned and bought all the weapons, but the men didn't just come here shooting guns from the sky.



When justice itself is unjust, there is injustice. So if you want justice, ... you have to go for the big Nigerian men who got the weapons, who supplied so many things. They are still in power.



I spoke at the TRC and said, "Forgive me for my sins, but when two elephants fight, the grass suffers." I was repentant. I've accepted Jesus.

Every country in the world knows the history of Nimba [Johnson's county]. They know what [former President Samuel] Doe did to my people. I had to defend my people.



Johnson Once Displayed The Skull Of Samuel K. Doe by LHRC

Prince Johnson reportedly kept the skull of former Liberian ruler Samuel K. Doe at his base in Caldwell and would displayed it to visitors. It is unknown if Johnson, who is also running for president, still have the skull of Mr. Doe

Defunct INPFL leader Prince Johnson displayed the skull of late President Samuel Kanyon Doe to a delegation of the Interim Government of National Unity (IGNU) at his Caldwell Base, Commany Wesseh, then sports minister of IGNU said.Mr. Wesseh said during a meeting with the INPFL leader to discuss the intention of IGNU President Amos Sawyer to resign, Prince Johnson told him and others that he had killed Doe who wanted to kill him (Wesseh

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Protecting Liberian War Criminals?

Not Only That She Refused To Prosecute Them, She Appointing Them To Serve In Her Government

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf broke a very important promise she made to the Liberian people, and Liberia's partners within the international community that she will never appoint any one with human rights abuse record in her government. However, the president, in what some are describing as search for votes in the ensuring Liberian 2011 presidential election, has fallen back on that promise by appointing potential war criminals in her government. In 2010, President Sirleaf made series of appointments that included Mr. John T. Richardson, a top rebel commander of the Charles Taylor led rebel group National Patriotic Front of Liberia, or NPFL, to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Liberian National Housing Authority, or NHA. Richardson was the lead organizer of the NPFL's infamous "Octopus Operation" in 1993 when NPFL rebels invaded Monrovia, the Liberian capital, during which time five Catholic nuns were reportedly killed, along with over 3,000 Liberians who were murdered, many in their homes, by NPFL rebels, and is responsible for recruiting kids as young as seven years old to serve in the NPFL "small Boys" unit.



Roland Duo On The Mahare River Bridge in 2003

Roland Duo, another rebel commander of the NPFL accused of throwing babies into the Mahare River during the Mahare River Massacre in Bomi County was appointed as coordinator for special project at the National Security Agency. Roland Duo, upon the orders from Benjamin Yeaten, Duo and his men reportedly massacred 175 persons, mainly members of the Mandingo tribe, for being sympathizers of the LURD rebel faction, according two survival. Duo, like many former rebel commanders, is said to be living large benefiting from loots he gathered during the war at the expense of thousands of innocent Liberians. On June 9, 2003, Roland Duo and those he was commanding arrested 18 persons as POWs from the LURD rebel faction. He turned them over to Charles “Chucky” Taylor and were summarily executed the same day.

President Sirleaf also appointed Mr. Alhaji Kromah leader of the ULIMO-K rebel faction responsible for various massacres in Northwestern Liberia, including the Sinje Massacre in Bomi County, as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Liberian Broadcasting Corporation, or LBC. Also appointed to the LBC Board is Madam Weadi Kobbah Wureh, an executive member of the Liberian Peace Council, a rebel group that operated in southeastern Liberia and is accused of roasting people alive in the fire, and placing hot burning iron between women's legs. Liberians are describing these appointments along with the refusal of the Ellen Sirleaf government to implement the recommendations contained in the final report of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission as insensitive to the memories of thousands of Liberians who were forced to their early graves as a result of the actions of these people.

At the very start of her administration, President Sirleaf appointed Mr. Kabinah Janeh as Associate Justice at the Liberian Supreme Court. Mr. Janeh is widely known among Liberians as a recruiter and legal advisor to Alhaji Kromah and his ULIMO-K rebel faction and also the lawyer for another rebel group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, or LURD, based on that he was appointed justice minister in the Liberian transitional government in 2003 when government positions were being distributed among warlords, rebel commanders and their civilian supporters.

TRC Report question?

As Liberia crawls towards the 2011 presidential and general elections, a powerful question is finding its way into the minds of many Liberians. Which is; can the 2011 elections consider credible without the implementation of the final report of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or TRC?

Money Can Buy Votes: Ex-Warlord Prince Johnson Bought Over for US$25 Million to Support Incumbent Prez Sirleaf in Runoffn Run-off Blog at WordPress.c

Money Can Buy Votes: Ex-Warlord Prince Johnson Bought Over for US$25 Million to Support Incumbent Prez Sirleaf in Runoffn Run-off Blog at WordPress.com.

Monrovia- Ex-warlord turned politician, Senator Prince Johnson who along with 15 other candidates ran for president of Liberia in last Tuesday elections and finished 3rd place putting him in the position as a kingmaker for the runoff scheduled for November 8th in which incumbent President Sirleaf and Cllr Winston Tubman of the Congress for Democratic Change will face off.

In a stunning twist, the Liberian kingmaker declared his support for incumbent President Sirleaf in the runoff putting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in a comfortable position of being re-elected.

Credible sources close to the ex-warlord informed this outlet Senator Johnson made the decision to cross over to the ruling Unity Party to cast his support for incumbent President Sirleaf after talks broke down with the opposition when his demand for US$2million or US$5 million to support the opposition could not be meant and the ruling party came in to negotiate with him and agreed to offer the National Democratic Union standard bearer the the US$25 million he requested.

“The sum of US$250, 0000.00 down payment was transferred into Senator Johnson’s account, a pre-condition before the ex-warlord could make his public support for President”, our sources said. According to the terms of the agreement, after Senator Johnson’s public announcement of support for President Sirleaf, the first portion of the of support incentive in the tune of US$12 million will be mad available a week later and the balance, US$12.5 million will available to the NUDP standard bearer.

What is stunning , an observer said is “why Senator Johnson who over the years accused President Sirleaf of corruption could accept such a huge amount to support the President when he knows that money comes from public coffers of the suffering people of Liberia whom he all theses years said he was fighting for”

One thing I want to tell Senator Johnson, he can’t use the people of Nimba as pawn and paint us as people who believe the corrupt practice of the Sirleaf government, a Nimbaian told this outlet“ A staunch supporter of Prince Johnson and his National Union for Democratic Progress said even we who supported him financially and his officials in the United States were never consulted but only got the information through the media”, a Nimabain told our outlet. If Prince Johnson can reduce himself to a sale-out, the people of Nimba are embarrassed by what they have heard that he accepted US$25 million from President Sirleaf , we will not follow him to support her because we cannot allow ourselves to be used as pawn to divide the country and the President feeds on the divisiveness while the country is divided and remain irreconcilable. ”We are not casino for Senator Johnson to cash on to enrich himself at the expense of the people of Nimba and the country.

Ex-Warlord’s Ordered to Recant Endorsement: Prince Johnson Support for Prez Sirleaf Backfires, NUDP Executives Give 48 Hours Ultimatum Or Else………Blog at WordPress.com.

Just as the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was getting set to cruise to victory in the runoff in the West African nation of Liberia in the runoff election on November 8th when ex-warlord Prince Johnson who came third in the election last Tuesday election endorsed incumbent President Sirleaf , less than two days, everything seems to be falling apart.

The ex-warlord was among the 16 candidates who participated in last Tuesday elections under the umbrella of the National Union for Democratic Progress, NUDP but since his public pronouncement that he supports President Sirleaf in the runoff, lot is evolving including reports that the NUDP standard bearer was bought over for the sum of $25 million do to endorse the President.

Today’s pronouncement by the Executive Committee of the NUDP that the decision to endorse the Unity Party and President Sirleaf declared by their standard bearer was unilateral and does not in any represent the party , is a dent in the momentum of the Unity Party and calls on the Senator to recant his statement of endorsement is a dent the momentum of the Unity Party gathered from the endorsement of Prince Johnson. The party executives has directed their standard bearer to appear before the Executive Committee and the party within 48 hours (on October 20, 2011) to show reason why he unilaterally endorsed the Unity Party and standard bearer, President Sirleaf without the consultation and consent of the party. The NUDP standard bearer has been further directed by the party that he desist from any form of activity or action in the name of the party until further notice after meeting with executives and the party.

Hours after the ex-warlord declare his support for President Sirleaf it was reported that the Senator endorsement was unilateral and his party officials were not informed and less 24 hours after that publication, the Executive Committee and the NUDP are cementing that report.

A prominent supporter said the NUDP standard bearer betrayed and disrespected his supporters by deceiving them after he had promised them that he was headed for Nimba to consult with local chiefs to help him decide who to support in the runoff but only to their surprise, they heard through the media with shock that their standard bearer had endorsed President Sirleaf though he had yet to meet the local chiefs of Nimba and held consultation with the party.

It is believed that the NUDP standard bearer decision to endorse President Sirleaf in the runoff on the backdrop that if he had endorsed Cllr. Winston Tubman of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change, the second place-finisher going to the runoff with President Sirleaf, he fear he could be prosecuted for war crime for his role in the Liberian civil war, an ex-general who killed the late President Doe during the civil war if the CDC standard bearer won the election because Cllr Tubman has publicly committed himself to implementing the the TRC recommendations.

The NUDP standard bearer and president Sirleaf are among some of those named in the TRC report recommended for prosecution and are barred from office respectively for their role in the country 14 year civil.

My comment on some of Liberia Issues!!

Our people in Liberia are suffering because NO ONE IN LIBERIA CARES for them. Do you know JFK is the world worst hospital to go to when ill? The hospital is filthy and smells like a sewer tank to say the least. When we (FELMAUSA Medical Mission Team) got to JFK, there were no gloves in the entire hospital, none at all we were told by Mrs. Willie, Procurement Specialist. JFK sent their patients out to buy their own gauge and gloves if they want services.

There are no baby bottles in any of the hospitals in Liberia; mothers are training their new born to drink from a cup because they are not nourished enough to breastfeed their new born. No record keeping system at JFK, nobody knows who you are even though you may have been there a 100 times. Don’t expect the nurses to “feel your pain”, in fact, they don’t want you messing up their floor or clothes so they will not treat you until you clean up yourself. Pehn-Pehns die like flies at JFK each and every day. 80% of JFK patients are pehn-pehns, ask Dr. Guizie. This, my friend is just the tip of the ice burg. Stay tune I have much more to come about Liberia and my 3 1/2 weeks stay there. In short, I wouldn’t take my 19 (human years) years old dog Trixie to JFK!!! You think JFK is bad, trying using the bathrooms at any public offices or clinics in Monrovia; you will not be able to eat or swallow after. There are no working public restrooms in Monrovia, so people are using the outdoors as restrooms and guess where the rain water is taking their dunk, back into the water systems.

No one in Liberia will do anything for you if there is nothing in it for them, even your own family or closed friend. The kids are not playing any more, too busy trying to survive so play time has been put on hold. Liberians have turned themselves into “professional beggers”…. Honestly, I couldn’t take the daily begging any longer. No one wants to start a small business for themselves, begging seem to be easier…what a shame!! Liberia is far more expensive then America, ask anyone who wants to tell you the truth! The Senators, Ministers, and foreigners are the only ones with power and enjoying life in Liberia, but they are also the biggest criminals and break all the rules of law daily!

There are nurse aids in Liberia pretending to be doctors and writing prescriptions and have clinics all over the place. There are nurse aids operating on patients daily, this is why we are dying everyday!! We have Physician Assistant who cannot correctly check your blood pressure but will quickly try to perform a C-Section operation….scary!!! There are Medical vehicles without gas and or working car battery parked “ready to be call in case of an emergency”, no lie, I live this one myself. Oh, don’t call the driver while he is eating, he will not move until he is done eating. Let not forget he can barely see!!! Madam President hired those Senators and Ministers thinking they would bring their outside work ethic and experiences to help her rebuild Liberia, instead they parked their ethic and experiences at RIA and join the ones on the ground and nothing is happening.

One senators office I visited had not one sheet of paper on his desk, not even a folder or pen, nothing, just fancy office well air conditioned. I think Liberia should be turn over to a foreign western company if we want to save her and JFK hospital should be shut down immediately!!! This is how most of their offices look, nothing going on. Oh, don’t waist your time sending them emails, they told us they don’t open it because it takes too long. Attachment, forget it. We (FELMAUSE team) sent all of the doctors and nurses documents via an email attached to the minister to health thinking that by the time we get there, the nurses and doctors temporary licenses to practice in Liberia will be ready. NOT the case, the minister himself sat with us and told us they don’t open their emails, it takes too long, that they needed hard copies before we could start work. Now take a look at the minister’s secretary, what is she doing?......That’s right, taking a nap after watching a movie, see the TV. They were watching one of those Liberian movie during work hours in the minister’s office area. Look closely at the clock, its 2pm. And this was going on while we were there, just imagine what happens when no one is around. They are doing exactly what Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is satisfied with, NOTHING all day long!!!

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the most corrupt African President

I just found out that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has a lot of her government officials staying in various hotels in Liberia. A lot of them do not have decent homes in Liberia so the country is paying for them to be housed in expenses hotels around the city.



Take a look at Government Officials in Liberia annual gross salary each:



Fees Items

$15,000.00 salary

4,500.00 Gas card

6,000.00 Monthly Hotel fees

100.00 Drivers salary @ $50.00 ea

50,000.00 Two SUVs

25,000.00 Traveling expenses to visit wife and children

25,000.00 Medical expenses outside of Liberia

10,000.00 Misc. expanses



$135,600.00 Total Gross salary. And this is just the one we know about, I am sure there are more hidden fees!



A small country like Liberia no one should be getting this kind of money per year! If Ellen returns for a second term, Liberia will be in the poor house by the end of her term or before. This is another form of corruption at its highest. Not only will the country be broke but she is setting the country for another war…….this time, it will be the between the “been-tos” and the “stay-at-home”!!

Is it JFK that we are talking about at this time?

So you are saying…

Its ok for a nurse aid to perform surgeries on helpless patients?
Its ok for the doctors working at JFK to take the medicines meant for JFK patients to their clinics?
Its ok for those innocents pehn-pehn to die daily because there is no doctor knowledgeable or medications to handle head trauma and they are left to bleed to death?
So it is ok for our senior citizens to sit in the hallway floor of JFK begging doctors for pills because they could not afford to pay for it.
And it is also ok with you that our babies are dying from simple illnesses like high fever or some idiots not cutting the cord correctly?
It is ok with you that a major government hospital did not have any gloves or gauges in the entire hospital and the clinics are reusing theirs?
It is ok with you that the nurses cursed at their patients and treat them anyway they like. Telling a patient in labor to “shut the hell up”?


I am sure knowing how you feel about your Liberian people make you sleep sound at night! If this is how you show that you love your people, please take me off of your “love my people” list.



The next time you are in Liberia and having chest and neck pains and think you may be having a heart attack, call the medic (911 works in Liberia as well) truck to take you to JFK. Oh, make sure you have gas money and a car battery on hand for the truck and also make sure you have the heart attack before you get to JFK or you will be sent home. JFK only takes you after the heart attack not before. One of my aunts did not know this and had a heart attack on her way back from been turn down at JFK.



As for me, Liberian hospitals and clinics drums will beat until those good-for-nothing senators and ministers either start to fix the problems or take sleeping pills to sleep at night!!!


The middle of the day, see this senator’s desk, does it look like anything is getting done in here? This is how most of their offices look, nothing going on. Oh, don’t waist your time sending them emails, they told us they don’t open it because it takes too long. Attachment, forget it. We (FELMAUSE team) sent all of the doctors and nurses documents via an email attached to the minister to health thinking that by the time we get there, the nurses and doctors temporary licenses to practice in Liberia will be ready. NOT the case, the minister himself sat with us and told us they don’t open their emails, it takes too long, that they needed hard copies before we could start work.



Now take a look at the minister’s secretary, what is she doing?......That’s right, taking a nap after watching a movie, see the TV. They were watching one of those Liberian movie during work hours in the minister’s office area. Look closely at the clock, its 2pm. And this was going on while we were there, just imagine what happens when no one is around.

They are doing exactly what you are satisfy with, NOTHING all day long!!!



Have a good day!



From: Morris Kanneh
Subject: [alja1] Is it JFK that we are talking about at this time?

Are we talking about JFK hospital here ? Has it been any better with any administration than it is now? Was the naked name "Just For Killing" given to the hospital during the 80s because of its viability or because its deficiency? Did we expect anything good this early out of the Liberian health system after a 14-year war?

"When head burned do we expect to see a bushy beard after"?

Are we cognizant of the warning from the then Under Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen, that if we allowed ourselves to fight for one year we would go backward for another 100 years?

Don't we know that we have just gone six years of those predated 100 years and we are talking about the unfitness of just a hospital so soon? We need to be fair to ourselves mannnn.



Our people say "When the child sees his grand father kissing his toothless old wife, he wonder's why his grand father wasted his money marrying such a tootles old woman". What the child failed to know is that the grand father had been kissing this ground mother's mouth when it was full with teeth as she gradually lost them. And so the ground father is now adjusted to his toothless old lady and has forgotten that she ever had tooth in her mouth before. So yes, the child is right, he was not around when the ground mother was regarded is a beauty during her days, he only saw her toothless



This goes to those who now see JFK as a dilapidated hospital after a long stay in the United States where the health system is developed to its highest, coupled with the destruction from the civil war. Of course JFK will be nothing more than a place where someone living in the World's more powerful country can allow his/her dog to be treated. But like our people say " The tweedy bird's nest might look small to you, but that is exactly where she raises and initiates her chicks." And so JFK remains a savior to those who can not afford to come to University of Penn Hospital for hospitalization. Prayerfully, those critical impediments you referred to will encourage Well Manning Liberians Like those of FELMAUSA to do more as opposed to empty criticisms.



This is one reason while I will keep holding my hat up for the Federation of Mandingo Association in the Americas for its far sighted humanitarian services to the health system in Liberia. If each and every organization was following FELMAUSA's footsteps, maybe not only JFK, but other health centers in Liberia would have been fit to treat not only our puppies but even ourselves.

I hate to make sweeping comparison, otherwise I was in one of the neighboring West African countries that did not go through civil war like we did few years ago, and I saw people taking their patients from a major hospital in that country to Liberia due to the backwardness of their health system.

This reminded me about the man who decided to kill himself because he was poor. As he was knotting the rope to hang himself, another poor man who was naked asked him to please donate his torn pants to him so that he can at least cover his front from to avoid the public reticule he was going through. The man hanging himself quickly took his nick from the rope and thanked God for the torn pants he had the opportunity to own, and prefer living to death.

LIBERIA will triumph my people.



Sekou

Worst Hospital in the world - Liberia JFK Hospital in Monrovia

Our people in Liberia are suffering because NO ONE IN LIBERIA CARES for them. Do you know JFK is the world worst hospital to go to when ill? The hospital is filthy and smells like a sewer tank to say the least. When we (FELMAUSA Medical Mission Team) got to JFK, there were no gloves in the entire hospital, none at all we were told by Mrs. Willie, Procurement Specialist. JFK sent their patients out to buy their own gauge and gloves if they want services. There are no baby bottles in any of the hospitals in Liberia; mothers are training their new born to drink from a cup because they are not nourished enough to breastfeed their new born. I have pictures and fully plan on writing Mrs. Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson in the very, very near future.



No record keeping system at JFK, nobody knows who you are even though you may have been there a 100 times. Don’t expect the nurses to “feel your pain”, in fact, they don’t want you messing up their floor or clothes so they will not treat you until you clean up yourself first. Pehn-Pehns die like flies at JFK each and every day. 80% of JFK patients are pehn-pehns, ask Dr. Guizie. This, my friend is just the tip of the ice burg. Stay tune I have much more to come about Liberia and my 3 1/2 weeks stay there. In short, I wouldn’t take my 19 (human years) years old dog Trixie to JFK!!!



You think JFK is bad, trying using the bathrooms at any public offices or clinics in Monrovia; you will not be able to eat or swallow after. There are no working public restrooms in Monrovia, so people are using the outdoors as restrooms and guess where the rain water is taking their dunk, back into the water systems.



No one in Liberia will do anything for you if there is nothing in it for them, even your own family or closed friend.



The kids are not playing any more, too busy trying to survive so play time has been put on hold.



Liberians have turned themselves into “professional beggers”…. Honestly, I couldn’t take the daily begging any longer. No one wants to start a small business for themselves, begging seem to be easier…what a shame!!



Liberia is far more expensive then America, ask anyone who wants to tell you the truth!



The Senators, Ministers, and foreigners are the only ones with power and enjoying life in Liberia, but they are also the biggest criminals and break all the rules of law daily!



There are nurse aids in Liberia pretending to be doctors and writing prescriptions and have clinics all over the place. There are nurse aids operating on patients daily, this is why we are dying everyday!! We have Physician Assistant who cannot correctly check your blood pressure but will quickly try to perform a C-Section operation….scary!!!



There are Medical vehicles without gas and or working car battery parked “ready to be call in case of an emergency”, no lie, I live this one myself. Oh, don’t call the driver while he is eating, he will not move until he is done eating. Let not forget he can barely see!!!



Madam President hired those Senators and Ministers thinking they would bring their outside work ethic and experiences to help her rebuild Liberia, instead they parked their ethic and experiences at RIA and join the ones on the ground and nothing is happening. One senators office I visited had not one sheet of paper on his desk, not even a folder or pen, nothing, just fancy office well air conditioned. My question was, what do you do in here all day without any PC or paperwork? “I go to meeting everyday” was the answer I got!! Put a gun to their heads and they could not tell you what the meeting was about.



I think Liberia should be turn over to a foreign western company if we want to save her and JFK should be shut down immediately!!!

UN & France Exposed - Be warned of grusome pictures

I agree wholeheartedly. But how do we get to the next level in our thinking and doing, so we don't become the" continent that once was"?

I am sure collectively we can find the answer to this if we try hard enough. But using a different way of doing things and solving our own problems first.

We need men and women with bright ideas to help us please answer some of these questions and put them in practice , not just theory-as we currently do so well.

The obstacles are so many but this is not unique to Africans alone. If others got themselves out of their hell holes, I think we too should be motivated to do same.

Politics is in the way; economics is in the way; wrong education is in the way; hunger is in the way; self hate is in the way; hero worship is in the way; everything seems to be in the way. Etc

How can these ideas come to fruition and be implemented? Do we need a Jerry Rawlings or a Julius Nyerere to help with these questions as we continue to sink (ie. drinking and sinking)? I am just wondering.

I sincerely believe though that if we believe that oft-repeated saying the first humans originated in Africa, then we too as Africans should the first originators of the solutions to our African problems instead of always looking to first, second, third, fourth anthropological derivatives from Africa who had long since settled elsewhere (eg. Europe, Asia, etc) and have practically forgotten Africa, except to come back to exploit and extract minerals for their new found lifestyles that they must support by hook or crook.

The more I think about this conundrum, the more I come to realize that we as Africans have not properly contextualized and compartmentalized the cardinals vices of greed, lust, and envy. Further, we have fallen to money,power and luxury, forgetting that these are tools that should be understood and used appropriately and not to be used or abused by them, etc.

There is too much confusion; our morals too sandwiched and too much noise in the market, so to speak, that we got all our priorities twisted and in the end, we fall to morbid selfishness and then internal and external chaos no matter how much we accumulated materially in the process.

I am still think about your thought provoking comments. You got me thinking.

Thank you.

Zumo


All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

(Paraphrase: All happy nations are alike; each unhappy nation is unhappy in its own way)

"There is no justice on the earth, they say.
But there is none in heaven, either. To me
That is as plain as any simple scale.---Mozart and Salieri, Scene 1, para 1.

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From: Williams, Roberta B

Doc, thanks for sharing as always, but if we (Africans) love and respect each other and our lands, we wouldn’t have a need for the UN now would we? The problem is us Doc, we are our own problems and enemies.
Most Africans in African countries that are in power don’t want to give it up. Most that are in charge of funds, steals most of it; most that are in charge of caring for children, rape the kids; most that are in charge of lands, sell it and put the money in their pockets. The number one thing an African man love more than himself is power, funny thing is, as soon as they get it, they abuse it and forget about their people. Remembered the saying: “All my mother’s children, I love myself the best and when I get my stomach full, I don’t care for the rest”………we practice this saying everyday in African!

The UN can live in these African countries until the end of time that will not change us, we have to want change and practice it everyday!

Oh by the way, in the UN, the ones that is on the ground and the ones giving the orders to the one on the grounds are of different races, which do you think is sent on the ground? They know we don’t love and respect each other or our lands so why not send the self-hater, makes perfect sense to me, not so?

Roberta Williams

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From Dr. Zumo

See below . And compare with other information coming from "the grounds" wherever UN is or has been stationed. You can choose to use two eyes or four eyes, as you like.

FYI

Zumo

Ivory Coast attack further complicates UN presence in Africa
From impotence in Rwandan genocide to helicopter strike on presidential palace, UN walks a fine line across continent
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o David Smith in Johannesburg
o guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 5 April 2011 17.26 BST
UN peacekeepers patrol the streets in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Photograph: Jane Hahn/AP
The United Nations attack on Ivory Coast's presidential palace and military barracks marks a new chapter in the organisation's often chequered history in Africa.
Most notorious was its impotence during the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which 800,000 people died. The UN security council failed to reinforce the small peacekeeping force in the east African country.
Kofi Annan, head of UN peacekeeping forces at the time, admitted later: "The international community failed Rwanda and that must leave us always with a sense of bitter regret."
Between 1948 and 2007, about 40% of the UN's peacekeeping and observer missions took place in Africa. In 2009, about 70% of its personnel were deployed on the continent. The current missions are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Darfur in Sudan, southern Sudan, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Western Sahara.
After the massacres in Rwanda and then Bosnia, the UN added the protection of civilians as a priority for each mission. But the question of how far it is willing – and able – to go to intervene remains delicate and politically charged.
The UN runs the world's biggest peacekeeping mission in Congo at an annual cost of $1.35bn (£865m) but it is constantly overstretched in the vast country. It has been accused of supporting Congolese army units responsible for grave atrocities.
Last year there were claims that peacekeepers ignored appeals for protection just days before more than 240 villagers were raped by rebels. There have been similar charges in the past, blamed on lack of equipment, manpower and intelligence capacity. UN peacekeepers in Darfur have been accused of failing to stop violence that resulted in civilian deaths.
Major General Patrick Cammaert, a Dutch marine and UN peacekeeping veteran, told the New York Times in 2009: "They can't start a war against a host government like a well-organised Sudanese campaign. That goes beyond protecting civilians; it is on a magnitude that a UN mission cannot deal with."



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From: ZumoAmos@aol.com


"Hesitancy to murder has never been the hallmark of imperialism"..Franz Fanon (1925-1961)

"As a continent, Africa will always haunt the UN Peacekeeping Missions (DPKO)"..Eeben Barlow, former South African Defence Force intelligence officer, CEO, Executive Outcomes Intl.

See FYI below:

http://www.liberianforum.com/Articles/Historical-Context-and-Real-time-projections-for-Successes-in-Africa.html

Zumo


From: Morris Kanneh

There is this tendency of people casting blame on the place they fell forgetting that the place they slipped is the principal cause of the fall in the first place. I thought it was Gbago who is more than been exposed for clinching on to power even at the precious lives of the Ivorians. But God willing he will pay for his deed in not a distance future.
Sekou

--- On Tue, 4/5/11, J. NAN LARSAH wrote:

When the UN denied these deaths early yesterday and Outtara dismissively denied said act as "nonsense" lies, it this what the UN/France/US/Outtara rebel forces "international community is hurriedly attacking Gbagbo for so as to get rid of him quickly?

Massacre in Ivory Coast



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Liberia Health Mystery

I have said this so many times, the only way the Liberia government will take the health care seriously is if they are ban from leaving the country for medical reasons. If they have to use the same low class medical treatment as everybody else in Liberia, they will do something, but each time they get sick or need a check up, they fly out of the country and take the Liberian people money with them to get themselves fix.

In fact, let them stay home and use everything Liberia has, things will change, and quickly! You can’t change things you don’t know is broken or have never use, not so?

Thank you,

Roberta Williams
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My pleasure.

I agree fully.

Given our more than 165 years history as a "nation", we should be doing better in Liberia by now with these things, if we are to move our nation up and away from poverty, ignorance, manipulation, misinformation and preventable diseases. Nobody else will do it for us , without us paying "an arm and a leg" each time they do it for us.
Will continue to keep my fingers crossed for Liberia.

Zumo

FYI from around the globe: See how others are using smart economics: ie. local resources and local expertise to take care of their citizens afflicted by eg. hypertension, stroke, etc.


In Coma, Ariel Sharon Is Moved Home

Reuters
An ambulance brought the former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, to his ranch in the Negev Desert on Friday.
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: November 12, 2010
JERUSALEM — Ariel Sharon, who had a major stroke while prime minister of Israel nearly five years ago and has since been in a coma in a hospital room, was moved on Friday to his ranch in the Negev Desert, hospital officials told Israel Radio.
A former close aide, Raanan Gissen, said in an interview that Mr. Sharon’s sons had been in discussion with Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv about the move. An elevator and other equipment had been installed at the family ranch to accommodate his arrival and long-term care.
Hospital officials said Mr. Sharon would at first spend several days at a time at home and then return to Sheba Medical Center to be to monitored. Only after several successful trials at the ranch would he stay there permanently.
Mr. Sharon, 82, breathes on his own but is fed intravenously, Mr. Gissen said. Visits to his sterile hospital room had been tightly limited because of a fear of infection. The cost of keeping Mr. Sharon in the hospital, which is borne by the taxpayer, has been high and some commentators urged that he be moved to a long-term care facility or home.
Mr. Gissen said that given his age and the duration of the coma, it seemed like Mr. Sharon was unlikely to regain consciousness, but his sons remained hopeful. He noted that Mr. Sharon used to say that he enjoyed spending time at the ranch, surrounded by livestock and nature, and perhaps returning there would help. Mr. Sharon was widowed twice. His sons, Omri and Gilad, are in charge of his care and estate.
A former general who held nearly every major ministerial post, Mr. Sharon was elected prime minister in 2001 and was at the height of his power when he had the stroke in January 2006. Having spent his career as a noted hawk and champion of the settler movement, he stunned the world by removing Israeli settlers and soldiers from Gaza in the summer of 2005 and leaving his political home in the right-leaning Likud, establishing the centrist party Kadima instead.
After his stroke, his deputy, Ehud Olmert, was elected prime minister.

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1) Demography
The Republic of Hungary has 10.04 million inhabitants of which 2.06 million live in Budapest, the capital of the country. Almost half of the country?s population resides in communities of less than 20,000 inhabitants each. In Hungary, there are 23 cities, 199 towns and 2913 villages.
During the 1950?s and 1960?s Hungary achieved improvements in the historically poor health status of its population through effective health measures and improved socio-economic conditions. While life expectancy in Western European countries improved during the 1980?s partly due to dropping rates of cardiovascular diseases, this tendency continued to worsen in Hungary as did deaths from cancer, liver cirrhosis and external causes such as accidents and suicide. Hungary has thus far completed an epidemiological transition. However, a special policy of health care for the ageing population is to be implemented. In Hungary, life expectancy at birth in 1997 was 75.1 years for women and 66.1 years for men compared to 80.8 years and 74.2 years in the European Union.
Mortality and morbidity due to unhealthy lifestyle, such as high consumption of alcohol, increasing rate of smoking and high fat and sugar diet are thought to be important causative factors. Factors contributing to the health status of population are complex, including social and economic factors as well as access to good quality health services.
2) Economy
It is difficult to estimate the total health care expenditure in Hungary, since it consists of contributions from local governments, voluntary sector and directly from the patients. In Hungary, the total health expenditure as a percentage of the GDP (6,5 %) is lower than the European Union?s average (8,5 %). The expenditure was growing steadily from PPP USD 391 in 1990 to PPP USD 602 in 1996 and it has continued to grow. The National Health Insurance Fund has a share of 70%, the largest part of the total health-care expenditure.
3) History
The first Act on mandatory sickness insurance for Hungary?s factory workers was introduced in 1889, 110 years ago, following the introduction of Germany?s sickness insurance system, affected by Chancellor Bismarck. Back then the centralised system of national sickness insurance was established for the 20th century. Before and after World War II, both the services provided by the insurance system and the group of insured persons had been extended.
In the 1970?s and 1980?s, the health insurance system was defined by Act II of 1975 on health, regulating both health and pension insurance schemes. In 1991, having returned to the practice of the first decade of this century, two self- governmental bodies became responsible for supervising and managing health and pension insurance funds, being the governing bodies of the separated Health Insurance Fund and Pension Insurance Fund.
In 1998, a package of acts has been enacted in order to restructure and redefine the social insurance system. Acts LXXX of 1997 and LXXXIII of 1997 define the scope of nationals entitled to social insurance services, private pension, the financing of the above benefits, and the benefits of mandatory health insurance. In 1999, the newly elected Parliament decided upon the supervision of the social insurance funds by a State Secretary.

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What is healthcare like in Germany?
Category: Health Care
Posted on: May 27, 2009 6:36 AM, by MarkH

What better argument for universal health care can you make than that of Germany? By far one of the most successful systems, it has had some form of universal health care for almost 130 years, and is currently one of the most successful health care systems in the world. It is again, a mixture of public and private funding, with employers providing most of the funding for health care by paying into one of several hundred "sickness funds" that provide health care funding to their employees. Germany is widely regarded as having excellent access, short wait times, care with the best technology and pharmaceuticals available, and this again while spending 10.7% of GDP (US 16%) with per capita spending of ~3.3k USD (approximately half of that in the US).
The German health care wikipedia entry is a good starting point, and it's always fun to try to translate German web pages and try to make sense of Google translations. But I've found several good articles describing the system including several articles in the MSM like this NYT piece which refers to Americans as having an "... immature, asocial mentality [that] is rare in the rest of the world," one for travelers, and one for those looking for German jobs. The consensus seems to be that Germany rocks when it comes to health care.


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From: Tony Leewaye

Dr. Zumo,
Thank you ever so much for the informative piece below, I hope our reading audience will learn some thing important from your wealth of knowledge in this area.

I have always wondered if the people who usually used the issues discussed below to score political points have ever asked about the health condition of Madam Sirleaf or her medical records? As you are aware, Madam Sirleaf is either 80 or close to that number and most of her medical checks are done in the USA at the expense of the Liberian people. I would have thought that her medical records would be public to those who paid her bills, the Liberian People.


Tony Leewaye



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From: "ZumoAmos


Two Pressure Candidates
In the wake of a recent admission coming from Johnson’s running mate that both of them are ‘pressure patients’, eye brows have been raised over the country’s future if the NUDP clinches the presidency during the election.
Senator Abel Massalley, also a senior senator of Grand Cape Mount County, in his apparent attempt to dismiss any notion of his colleague’s illness being a problem, told journalists recently, that he too carries similar sickness: “There is nothing wrong with being a pressure patient. I’m also a pressure patient”. -from Frontpage Africa.

In all sincerity, we wish Senator Prince Johnson well. We are sure he will take his meds to keep his pressure at the desired 120/80 and take his daily baby aspirin. We wish to sincerely thank Senator Masselley for being bold about his bout of hypertension as well. Acknowledging hypertension (the silent killer) is a very good and bold step for the two senators. Hope we can all educate ourselves and check our own blood pressure regularly. This is a good teaching momemt about the disease, which is responsible for so much other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality if left untreated.

Hope we don't get the false notion that they are the only ones affected. BIG MISTAKE. SORRY NO POLITICAL POINTS CAN BE OBTAINED HERE!!!!

High blood pressure (hypertension) is an important stroke risk factor: accounting for approximately 75% of all strokes.

FYI: In a recent article (" Stroke, the whip of death in the Young in Liberia", Journal of the Liberia Medical &Dental Association, pp. 15-17, vol.16, no.1) published by our dear, always brilliant colleague, Dr. Abraham Borbor at the Department of Medicine, JFK Medical Center, Monrovia Liberia, Dr. Borbor writes "The (retrospective) review of patients admitted over 33 months(August 2007- May 2010) in the JFK Medical Ward indicated that of the 2606 patients, stroke was significantly high (14.7%) and males were more affected (54.6%). Death due to stroke was high (57.06%) and the younger Liberian population (52.75% of total) is seriously affected. Hypertension was shown to be significantly associated (91.36% of total) with stroke at JFK in both males and females. Therefore, hypertension must be taken seriously by the medical community and society at large."

Hope the message is clear.

This is a chronic illness not a terminal illness so the two gentlemen should do fine with the rest of their campaign.

Instead of hiding their illnesses, at least they are honest with their illnesses- giving the public an opportunity to learn fully well about the disease (as is commonly done by the American and European public when their political leaders are affected by various illnesses), a rarity in Liberian politics and among Liberian politicians and public officials.

Zumo

A Brief History of Women in Power-This is what happen when girls are educated!

1. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka
Fifty years ago, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected, becoming the first female head of government the world had ever known. Her victory was so groundbreaking; no one knew what to call her. "There will be need for a new word," London's Evening News wrote the day after she was elected as Prime Minister in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). "Presumably, we shall have to call her a stateswoman." Bandaranaike assumed the role of party leader after her husband was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. When her party won the July 1960 election, she took the country's reins and held them until 1965. She would serve as Prime Minister again from 1970 to 1977 and from 1994 to 2000. It was her daughter, who had become the country's first female President in 1994, who appointed her to her final term, though the position had become largely ceremonial at that point. She stepped down in April 2000 and died later that year — on the very day she cast her ballot in the country's elections.

2. Indira Gandhi, India
She was the nation's daughter, brought up under the close watch of both her father, who was India's first Prime Minister after decades of British rule, and her country. The TIME magazine cover not long after her election in January 1966 read, "Troubled India in a Woman's Hands." Those hands led India for much of the next two decades, through recession, famine, the detonation of the nation's first atomic bomb and a civil war in neighboring Pakistan that, under her guidance, saw the creation of a new state, Bangladesh.

3. Golda Meir, Israel
Once called "the only man in the Cabinet," Golda Meir was a formidable figure in Israeli politics. Tall, gaunt, blunt and determined, to the world she embodied the steely stubbornness of the Israeli spirit. "There is a type of woman," she once said, "who does not let her husband narrow her horizon." After an illustrious political career, including service as Israel's Labor Minister and Foreign Minister, among other high-level positions, she was called out of retirement at age 70 to lead her country as Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974.

4. Golda Meir, Israel
Once called "the only man in the Cabinet," Golda Meir was a formidable figure in Israeli politics. Tall, gaunt, blunt and determined, to the world she embodied the steely stubbornness of the Israeli spirit. "There is a type of woman," she once said, "who does not let her husband narrow her horizon." After an illustrious political career, including service as Israel's Labor Minister and Foreign Minister, among other high-level positions, she was called out of retirement at age 70 to lead her country as Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974.

5. Corazon Aquino, Philippines
After the assassination of her charismatic husband, the pious Catholic widow Corazon Aquino won over the public and overthrew the dictatorial regime widely blamed for his murder. In a spectacle that added the phrase people power to the global lexicon, millions of supporters took to the streets to ensure Aquino's eventual rise to the office of the President in February 1986. Though tested by several attempted military coups and other setbacks, she managed to preserve the democracy her husband had died for. She was named TIME's Person of the Year in 1986 — the first woman to receive the designation since Queen Elizabeth II in 1952.

6. Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan
A daughter of the Pakistan dynasty, Benazir Bhutto followed her father into politics and died because of it. Young and glamorous, she was a refreshing contrast to the male-dominated political establishment. She led her country as Prime Minister from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996 — both times, she was dismissed from office by the President for alleged corruption, charges she steadfastly denied and called politically motivated. She was assassinated in 2007 while campaigning to bring back democracy to the then military-ruled country; her husband, also tarnished with allegations of graft, is now President.

7. Angela Merkel, Germany
Angela Merkel is a rarity in German politics: she's the first Chancellor to have grown up in communist East Germany, the first female to lead and the youngest-ever incumbent. She spent decades being underrated but never took it to heart. "You could say I've never underestimated myself," Merkel told TIME in January 2010. "There's nothing wrong with being ambitious." One hundred days after taking office in late 2005, a poll named her the most popular Chancellor in German history.

8. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia
In April 2006, First Lady Laura Bush described Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as a woman who has never stopped working for her country. "[Her] courage and commitment to her country are an inspiration to me and women around the world," Bush wrote in TIME. Johnson-Sirleaf started her political career as a Liberian Cabinet Minister in the 1970s, went on to become a senior United Nations administrator in the 1990s and, when elected President of Liberia in 2006, became the first African woman to be elected head of state. Since taking the helm, she has pushed to reclaim what her nation lost during years of civil war. With strong will and determination, she has vowed to fight against corruption and move "forward into a future that is filled with hope and promise." To honor her triumphs, then U.S. President George W. Bush awarded her a 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom. As Laura Bush wrote, "Johnson-Sirleaf is an example of what can happen when girls are educated."

Liberian TRC: Reconciliation before the Truth - hummmm?

Question – What if we (Liberians) were to find out the names and countries of all those who had their hands in the “cookie jar” of the Liberian war, is Liberia in the position to take those involve to court? Or will we only reconcile with them as well? Personally, I don’t think Liberians can handle the truth regarding the war because no two sides will agree on whose to blame.

Sometimes I think the reasons we are getting help from the outside countries in rebuilding Liberia is their way of saying “we are sorry for what we started in your country and to your people” nothing more. I don’t think they really care, do you? All of the assistances we are getting from the USA are only a mere “we should not have let Charles Taylor out of jail, we made a mistake” gesture. Then again, one can only wonder what was in it for them, the diamonds or to reduce the population of an African country or both.

Some of the things I see and hear happening in various African countries I think are all plans to hopefully reduce the African populations. The sad part is we (Africans) know this all too well but still take the bribe for our own selfishness and greed. Africans are known to sell their own for a buck dating back to the biblic al days. As much as we are reconciling, it will take only one person to sell us back to 1979 or 1989. We always claim to want help with our day to day and long term lives in Liberia but the minutes someone comes along and present us with a dollar, we will sell whatever and whoever for that buck no matter what the short or long term consequences are.

To reconcile is to be willing to forgive and acknowledging that no one groups or tribes is to be blamed. We also need to acknowledge that we deserve a second chance. We need to know that we are valuable to the world. We need to start by showing respect for ourselves and our countrymen and women. One can not love their country and steal from it and break it down to nothing. It is impossible to love someone you do NOT respect; we have to learn to respect each other and take pride in our country first. We have to stop wearing our emotional on our sleeves and genuinely work on our feelings for one another.

We need to de-program ourselves to connect the dots, meaning we need to use what we learned in school in our personal everyday lives. We have psychologist using and abusing women emotionally and don’t see sleeping around as a sign of uselessness towards one self; we have medical doctors sleeping around without protections but go to work everyday and give advice on protections. We have RNs sending for over the counter drugs (street drug) from Liberia to use when they are sick, by the time they realized the Liberia street drug is not working, it’s too late. We have accountants who can not count but know how to steal but at the same time never want to be accountable for their actions; and lawyers who are more of a criminal then the guys on the streets but yet practice the law everyday. We have educated, well rounded Liberians still believe when they are sick someone must have witched them. We have PhD holders acting like third grade dropouts but know how to present themselves at work. We have food specialist that are over weight and eating large amount of fufu and soup at 11pm at night; shouldn’t they all know better or was their schooling only for “name sake” to say I have a degree. Why are Liberians not connecting the dots, education and life should go hand in hand, why can’t we use our education to live better lives?

By the time we Liberians are 45 – 50 years old, we have multiple kids by multiple women/men; multiple marriages; many illnesses; and no real family connections; no dependable friends around to lean on and we looked 20 years older then our peers from another country…..and then we died before our 55th birthday, why, only two reasons…

1. We wear our feelings on our sleeves meaning our feeling do not go beyond the present moment, when you are out of sight, you are out of our minds, we don’t care what we do or say to or about you.

2. We do not apply our education in our personal life, we spent 4 – 12 years reading for a good job but when we get home from work, our minds and behaviors are as if we were never in school!!!

All the reconciliations in the world will not get Liberians to:
Respect each other
Make real peace with one another
Love the land call Liberia
Stop the hate
Stop the envy
Stop the unnecessary greed
Think of what they can “do for” Liberia and not what they can “steal from” Liberia
Seek counseling for ourselves and our love ones
Mentally change our mindset of what we consider the word LOVE to be.

We have a long way to go my friend!!

Roberta Williams

Rituals Killing in Liberia

Make up your mind, one minute you want culture rituals to continue in Liberia the next minutes you want culture rituals (killings) to stop. Isn’t this the culture rituals that you, Nat G. and others want to continue in Liberia? Live with it!!!!



You can’t have both my friend!



Thank you,

Roberta Williams

"What other people think of you is none of your business."

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Subject: [ULIBSAAforum] Fw: LIB govt. ignores ritual killings







--- On Wed, 3/10/10, Joe Morris wrote:


From: Joe Morris
Subject: LIB govt. ignores ritual killings
To: EveryLiberian@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:54 PM

Fellow Liberians,

Please do not be surprise if the government of Liberia decides to investigate the recent conflict in Lofa without pursuing the perpetrators of the ritualistic killing of the young girl that ignited the violence.



When did it become legal in Liberia to kill people especially those belonging to low economic class?



There have been series of death reported around the country with ritual intend and the very good government has never been moved or the nation stopped to pursue the perpetrators and bring justice to one more forgotten soul that leaves the living few.



For the sake of common sense, you will think that after losing 250,000 of your citizens, you will be distraught when one more of the living is gone.



Most frustrating of all; The family of the slain young girl will now be heard only because it sparked tribal and religious conflict.



What a sad nation!



God bless our nation.



Joseph Kalapele Morris

Connecticut - The Constitution State











--- On Sun, 2/28/10, George Kpator wrote:


From: George Kpator
Subject: [EveryLiberian] FrontPageAfrica's ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN LOFA COUNTY
To: "Every Liberian" , "Liberian Journalists" , onelofa@yahoogroups.com, "George Kpator"
Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 1:30 AM



L

iberia’s northernmost county of Lofa is unarguably one of Liberia’s counties that continues to heed to the effects of the evils of a post-conflict environment which continues to see the residents of the county challenged with the task of co-existence and religious tolerance in the midst of all its Christian-Muslim domination in addition to its many tribal arrangements, begetting a recent violence in two of its major towns that have led to deaths and destruction of properties that occurred in less than 24 hours.

What began as a student protest against the death of one of their colleagues named Korpu Kamara later turned into a somewhat religious violence that reportedly left four persons dead and over 50 injured that left some churches and schools burnt down.

The violence coincided as the Liberian National Bar Association was holding its first quarterly-session of 2010 in Voinjama which left one of its councilors’ vehicle burnt down in the aftermath of the violence after an entrapped Vice President Joseph Boakai had to be airlifted to Monrovia following hours of his convoy being held hostage by the angry protesters.



Sen. Kupee & other Lofa lawmakers a town hall meeting Saturday to discuss the religious tension in Northern Liberia.

Reports emanating from the county said the students’ protest was sparked by the discovery of student Korpu’s corpse, an eleventh grade student, who had gone missing for days but was found dead later reportedly lying next to a mosque in Zorzor, thereby leading to some of the students suspecting that their colleague’s death was tied to the Muslims of the mosque.

Lofa County Superintendent, Galakpai Kortimai, told a local radio station Friday night that misinformation from Zorzor of a mosque being burnt down rapidly spread to Voinjama which led angry Muslims to go on the rampage, reportedly burning down churches and Christian-run schools with the Catholic and Lutheran schools in the provincial capital being reportedly burnt down.

Further reports speak of shootings from single barrel guns in the provincial capital leading to the deaths of four men as confirmed by Representative Moses Kollie who told FrontPageAfrica that the bodies of the four killed so far were all men and were found with bullet wounds, a situation that has caused more attention to be drawn to the fragility of not just the county but Liberia in its entirety.

Representative Kollie said the bodies are deposited at a local hospital in Voinjama.

The late Korpu was also reported to have been found dead with bullet wound, though yet to be fully established.

Late Friday evening, troops from the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of the Liberian National Police (LNP) were seen being airlifted from the Springfield Airport in Sinkor, Monrovia, to the troubled zone to help calm the situation along with stationed troops of the United Nations Mission In Liberia (UNMIL) who have come under strong criticism of biasingly protecting only mosques and ignoring the protection of churches, something that again surfaced during Saturday’s mass meeting.UNMIL, in a press release issued late Friday afternoon stated it was aware of the situation and that UNMIL Formed Police Unit and military components were sent on the ground in assistance to the LNP in Voinjama where the incident took place.



Saturday's meeting came a day after violence erupted in the county; beginning from a town named Konia and later spreading to other parts of the county including the provincial capital of Voinjama.

The UN Mission said that the troops will work in close coordination with the local county authorities and the security apparatus on the ground to keep the situation under control and UNMIL will contribute the necessary specialists to assist in the investigation of the incident.

In the midst of the recent violence in the county that has seen scores of damages taking place in Zorzor and Voinjama, a mass meeting of Lofa citizens residing in Monrovia and its environs was held Saturday at the Capitol Building upon the invitation of the Lofa County Legislative Caucus.

The meeting came a day after violence erupted in the county; beginning from a town named Konia and later spreading to other parts of the county including the provincial capital of Voinjama.

Saturday’s meeting that was organized by the county’s legislative caucus saw several views and suggestions made by citizens of the county which resulted into the formation of two committees with the responsibilities of investigating what really transpired and soliciting funds to aid with the repairs of the damages caused respectively.

The meeting was headed by the Caucus’ Chairman, the county’s Senior Senator Sumo Kupee (Coalition for the Transformation of Liberia-COTOL) while Senator Fomba Kanneh (All Liberian Coalition Party-ALCOP) , Representatives Moses Kollie (COTOL), Malliam Jallabah (ALCOP) and Varflay Kamara (ALCOP) were present as Representative Eugene Fallah Kparkar’s absence (Liberty Party) was noticeable.

Lofa citizens during the meeting who were drawn from all tribal and religious sectors of the county agreed on ensuring that the committees comprise of three representatives from each of the county’s seven administrative districts with one female and two males comprising of each set of the three representatives: namely, Foya , Kolahun , Salayea , Vahun , Voinjama and Zorzor District s.

‘A Shame To All Lofaians’

“What is happening in Lofa County is a shame to us all”, noted one of the citizens before adding his recommendation during the meeting.

The county in recent time has been engulfed with several mysterious deaths, most of which are ritualistic and the students had thought that it was time for such to be halted with immediacy.

The death of little Vawuu Kesselley whose death has linked Senator Kupee and that of another police man have been reasons why the students thought to demand justice that unfortunately turned out to be violent than they had thought.

Representative Kollie told FrontPageAfrica after Saturday’s meeting that the citizens of the county need to go back on the drawing-board in identifying and acknowledging that there are still problems in the county.

“The death of this little girl tells us that there are still problems in our county”, Representative Kollie said.

I’m Bitter More Than You”: Deceased’s Uncle Laments

PAINFUL LOSS

Jefferson Nyandibo, an uncle of the late Korpu Kamara whose death sparked the violence, in an attempt to restore quietude to the meeting that was being disturbed by some of the citizens said he was bitter more than any of them in attendance and that there was need for any disturbance as they sought to find the solution to the problem of their troubled county.

Jefferson Nyandibo, an uncle of the late Korpu Kamara whose death sparked the violence, in an attempt to restore quietude to the meeting that was being disturbed by some of the citizens said, he was bitter more than any of them in attendance and that there was no need for any further disturbance as they sought to find the solution to the problem of their troubled county.

“No one, as I stand before you is so more grieved than me, but again, with your presence, my sorrow has gone away” Jefferson said.

Jefferson told the gathering that the deceased was actually the child of the late Paramount Chief, Joseph Nyandibo. Jefferson narrated that his elder brother married Korpu’s mother, Viamah Nyandibo Kamara, who has gone to Konia, Lofa County to bury their daughter.

“What we have come to say to all of us is this: there’ll be situation that will always create forum for another situation”, he said or otherwise he would have gone to the Capitol Building and stop Senator Kupee not to speak until they provide circumstances leading to the death of his niece who he referred to as daughter, Korpu.

Jefferson urged his fellow citizens to stop asking who is going to keep peace for them in their county.

“No one order than you can keep peace in Lofa”, he said as he made reference to a remark from one of the citizens who suggested that UNMIL be drawn into whatever investigation that would take place amid claims that the UN Mission was biased in protecting mosques and not churches.

“Dangerously, for all us of is to ever live with pretense. I was in Voinjama, when we did the traditional cleansing, funded by USAID. Elders that ever went to that traditional cleansing can attest”, he continued as he lamented the fact that there exists some differences among citizens of the county that need to be settled and instead of pretending that all is well.

He reflected that during the “traditional cleansing”, people from every segment of the area were present.

“We killed cows, we put libations, we went to the mountains, we did all. But this action, I’m convinced that was done was under pretense”, Jefferson further observed.

Lofa’s On Time Bomb

He told his fellow Lofa citizens that it was fortunate for them to realize that they are sitting on a time bomb in the county.

He further asserted it was unfortunate that his niece, Korpu died in the way and manner in which she died and left the podium weeping deeply. Jefferson frowned on his compatriots that they pretend so much, which will do them no good.