THE NATION AND the rest of the world are watching our elected lawmakers making mockery of themselves on the national stage.
MANY WONDER WHY would an aged nation that is quick to beat its chest about the role it played in revolutionizing Africa continue to behave like a country just beginning to find its place in the comity of nations?
FOR LAWMAKERS OF a nation that claims to be so educated, politically astute, diplomatically savvy and ready to do business on the international level, the legislative displays in the lower house over the past few weeks in the fight for the speakership and other house leadership positions is a far cry from the expectations of the people of Liberia and our friends in the global space.
LIBERIANS ARE NOW fully aware of these shenanigans in the legislature, especially in the House of Representatives where there have been these battles; from the epic battle to remove then Speaker Snowe during the first term of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to this current fight to unseat Rep. Koffa.
THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of this nation knows the issue at play is not necessarily about who sits in leadership positions, but rather, who carelessly hands out the nation’s resources without thinking about the future of this nation.
UNWHOLESOME GREED AND the lack of God fearing leadership have impaired the capacities of our national leaders to do what’s right, specifically the leadership of the lower house that ignores, disregards, side steps and abandons the principal reasons for which they were elected.
GREED AND CORRUPTION have become so rampant in the Legislature that young kids with ambitions of entering politics speak of becoming lawmakers to ‘get their own’.
THAT SAME GREED leads many who would otherwise be better placed, more effective and efficient in private lives wallowing in the halls of the legislature as lawmakers only to fleece the people of Liberia.
AS THE SUPREME Court decides; in our mind, it wouldn’t make a difference who sits in that Speaker Chair, it would be a matter of which one the collective majority sees as the person who will provide the opportunity for more Toyota Hilux Pickups, posh cars, free travels, connection to greasy ministries, agencies, corporations and the traditional brown envelopes.
FOR US, LIBERIANS must evaluate those we elect to the national legislature, not because they fix community roads, build hand pumps, public toilets, bridges, palava huts or hand out plenty money to get elected, their monies used to ‘do good’ is a subliminal loan to woo us into thinking that they would perform in our interest.
AND SO, AS we await a Supreme Court that has its own challenges in the judiciary to make a determination on this matter of national importance, we must begin a reawakening process and reevaluation of how we elect our lawmakers in the future.
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