OVERTIME AND again, Liberia’s crusade for good governance has often glittered ‘prepared’ battlefield for corruption, with strongest conceivable public anticipation and anxiety that genuine war would be waged on economic vampires in sheep-clothing.
THERE HAS BEEN no single electioneering epoch in Mama Liberia that motivated and crowd-pulling Liberians wanting public offices would never venture promising to deal ‘CORRUPTION’ an unforgettable punch to rescue the country from economic vampirism.
IT WAS THE same CORRUPTION yesterday; the same CORRUPTION today, and the same CORRUPTION tomorrow which power seekers usually impress upon us to curtail, minimize or eliminate, if elected to steer the affairs of our impoverished society.
HOWEVER, THE ONLY major achievement we have seen in this fight is the fact that the public is unwaveringly vocal in naming and shaming economic vampires, who do not even care for the disgrace and undercut- integrity brought to bear when they are exposed.
YET, IN OUR mind, naming and shaming corrupt government officials in Liberia cannot break the camel’s back anymore because corrupt minds careless about integrity and public humiliation they can be subjected to when caught red-handed.
THOUGH WE APPLAUD the Liberia Anti Corruption Commission (LACC), for often bringing to books public officials suspected of corruption in government, beyond the intervention of the LACC, investigative reports forwarded to the Executive through the Ministry of Justice often receive slow pace of fast-tracking to ensure prosecution and final judgments in anticipation of unbending fight against corruption.
IN A CLASSIC case study, the latest arrest of Madam Sonita Dangan of the Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS) by the LACC for corruption-related allegations should go beyond mere arrest.
SURELY, WE THINK the public is eager to know what happens to indicted corrupt officials of government rather than LACC only arresting, investigating and forwarding them on the average to the Executive Branch through the Ministry of Justice while prosecution and final judgment mostly remains elusive at the dismay of the masses.