We Detest Political Flamboyancy
It is becoming increasingly measurable through the political lens that the Joseh Nyuma Boakia-led government is adopting the wasteful spending on what is described as ‘undefined foreign trips,’ which occasionally characterized the George Weah-led administration.
This was one aspect of Weah’s regime that was citizens vehemently decried.
These wasteful spending, which met stiff resistance from the public, were obviously triggered by what could squarely be termed as ‘political flamboyancy’ where power was granted the space, and authority to get its users intoxicated.
Political flamboyancy has to do with government officials paying blind eyes to poverty reduction mechanism, especially in a country where poverty traditionally sits before every other door step fueling anger, and breeding the eggs of temptation.
Political flamboyancy could rightfully be described as a group of power users disappointingly bent on exploiting a given situation to create avenues for self-gratification/enjoyment, while the masses to whom power and the country belong, remain clutched in a precarious economic condition with no bread to eat.
President Boakia is currently in Japan at the head of at least 23-member delegation to attend the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), which began on August 20-22. The event expected to take place in the Japanese city of Osaka.
While we appreciate the representation of Liberia at this globally important conference, we think the president entourage is so huge, which obviously has economic implication on a country that faces abject poverty at all levels, while joblessness remains the enslaving factor to the people.
It appears that most of those who have, and continue to form the executive mansion delegation to these conferences are birds of the same feathers, who see pleasure flying together just for the political marrow associated, forgetting to know that in a country where the masses are bent under poverty, political flamboyancy is an abomination, which, like in previous years, we detest to the core.
We therefore called on the President to practice what he preached, rather than going by the maxim: “It was bad yesterday, but good today,” to travel with a huge delegation at the expense of the country taxpayers.