IN LIBERIA, POLITICIANS and their followers continue to garner the citizenry to debate over which regime edges in developing the country.
THIS DEBATE USUALLY comes about when supporters of the governing party and those of the past regime begin to catalogue the number of projects one regime initiated and implemented during its epoch.
WE FOLLOW THE debate with keen interest when ex-officials of past regime checkmate officials of present regime on the basis of what the electorates were promised during elections to be delivered when elected.
FOR US, THE platform of any regime derives from the layers of past regime on which the success of the present regime automatically depends on.
OUR SENSE OF reasoning in this context comes against the backdrop that government is continuity; where past regime stops, there present regime begins.
IN ACTUALITY, NO regime elected through the ballot box will ever start the development of the country all over, but from the foundation of what was met on arrival.
IF THIS IS arguable, then there is no need for any incoming regime to be compelled to pay past debts, whether internal, external or otherwise.
HOWEVER, HERE IS our old-aged problem: The incoming regime would usually want to impress the masses that it is the one advancing development, even if some of what might be implemented were initiated by past regime. In counter-claim, the past regime would nullify the effort of the present regime on grounds that it has not introduced new projects to boast of.
HOWEVER, WHAT THE public should be interested in is the growth and development of Mama Liberia; every regime is expected to deliver promises made during electioneering period, bearing in mind that credit should be given to whom credit is due.
WE THEN ENCOURAGE our politicians and their followers to work in unison, respecting one another and putting Liberia above individual interests for the common good of the governed.