President Joseph Nyuma Boakai at the head of a high-level government officials recently participated in the burial and the reburial of the country’s former First Lady Nancy B. Doe, and the late President Samuel Doe simultaneously in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County.
The home-going ceremony aimed at letting the dust wash away the rust, igniting the light of reconciliation.
It also gave the deceased a state burial; one that will remind history that the deceased played their political roles to take the country to another level.
Reportedly held in a colorful fashion, the ceremony is expected to breed healing, national unity and reconciliation between and amongst the Liberian people to purge away the ugly past, and move forward with national growth and development.
It’s our hope that we, as nation and people, will not allow the memory of the ugly past to perpetually remain cleaved to our individual and collective minds; something which is obviously counterproductive to national healing and reconciliation.
President Joseph Nyuma Boakia was right politically when he urged all Liberians, both at home and elsewhere to hold together in tighter unity and develop a sense of nationalism so that the nation can sail unhindered to a noblest height.
Indeed, freedom will only seek those who change their minds positively; those whose loyalty is only geared at making their nation a progressive state, those who dream only about making the future great and prosperous for future generations.
May the souls of the deceased rest in perpetual peace, while unnecessary political dust goes away with the political rust.
Political rust can be safely equated to the growing wave of greed for power only for selfish gains.
Political rust has to do with undermining the peace and tranquility of the land.
We recalled during the ceremony when the President, in a solemn and historic moment, described the occasion as “not merely a burial, but a powerful national of reflection, healing and reconciliation.”