OFTEN TIME, THE President is looked up to making state-interested decisions befitting the presidency on behalf of the country. There should be no debate that the President of a unitary state like Liberia remains the Chief Executive whose decisions on national issues directly or indirectly affect the governed either positively or negatively.
COMPLICATED THOUGH, THESE decisions expected of the President derive from pieces of advice and recommendations from loyalists, critics, clergymen, advocates, lawyers and a host of state actors who tend to supposedly assist the governance system of the country.
REALISTICALLY, WE CANNOT negate the fact that when these pieces of advice and recommendations yield positive results, the President receives accolades. However, when it turns the other way in terms of negativity; the President faces stern condemnations and criticisms from the public for sealed shady and gurus deals.
OF COURSE, RECOMMENDATIONS and purported pieces of advice intended for self-accruement of gains; be it economic benefits or otherwise must be detected when they surface on the presidential desk for review, consideration or rejection when need be.
IN OUR CANDID opinion, many sealed deals that backfire afterward happen because confidants of the President influence decisions to get political dividends at the expense of the impoverished masses.
WE CANNOT MEND our words to assert that most times many confidants of the President exploit the confidence reposed in them to become conduits between the Presidency and the governed simply because they target ill-gutted wealth against national interest.
WITH ALL FAIRNESS, we will be biased if we limit this classic deceitful trend of self-missioned influence against the state and the governed to only the Boakai-led regime as we see today.
WE CHALLENGE THE public to denounce our assertion that the Tolbert, Doe, Taylor, Sirleaf and Weah regimes did not pass this same route in allowing economic vampires to accrue undue wealth at the detriment of the masses.
ARE WE JUSTIFYING this kind of bad governance practice in our country? No! This is not what we anticipate or endorse in striving for genuine regime change. This practice is unacceptable and must stop if we mean well to transform our society.
THEREFORE, WE CAUTION our current President Joseph Nyuma Boakai not to be used as scapegoat for anyone’s political gain because every backfire arising from any shady deals signed and made public through his assumed approvals will surely reflect his character and image.