Counselor Tiawan Saye Gongloe (TSG) has questioned President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s on the declaration he made at the October 23, 2026, Cabinet meeting.
Gongloe wrote under the title: A simple question for Pres. Boakai on the last week of October 2026: Mr. President, when will you enforce your own performance contracts, not just threaten dismissals?”
At the meeting, Boakai said: “Government is not a friendship club.”
On that note, Gonloge described the statement as welcoming.
“Public office is a responsibility, not a personal reward. Government officials must work, deliver results, and be held accountable.”
Gongloe: “But Mr. President, the Liberian people have heard enough warnings. What they need now is enforcement.
Your administration already has a mechanism for evaluating government officials. It is called the Performance Management and Compliance System (PMCS). The question is not whether your officials should be evaluated. The question is why your administration continues to threaten dismissals when it has already established performance contracts designed to determine who is performing and who is failing.
Mr. President, consider your own administration’s record.
In October 2024, you launched the PMCS framework through a presidential directive intended to institutionalize performance monitoring and accountability across government.
In June 2025, your administration completed another appraisal cycle and proceeded with the signing of the 2025 Presidential Performance Contracts at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ministerial Complex.
In April 2026, you personally presided over the signing of the 2026 performance contracts, reinforcing your administration’s commitment to measurable results, financial accountability, and effective implementation of government priorities.
These were not ordinary ceremonies. They represented commitments by public officials to achieve specific objectives using public resources entrusted to their institutions.
Mr. President, where are the results? Which ministers met their performance targets? Which ministries failed? Which officials were sanctioned for noncompliance? How many were rewarded for outstanding performance? Most importantly, where are the publicly accessible performance reports that would allow Liberians to judge whether their government is delivering?
These are legitimate questions that deserve straightforward answers.
At your October 23 Cabinet meeting, you instructed ministers to make their deputies and assistants work or replace them. But accountability must begin at the top. Ministers serve under your authority. If they fail to supervise their deputies, enforce performance contracts, or deliver measurable results, responsibility ultimately rests with the presidency.
Mr. President, leadership is not measured by the frequency of warnings but by the consistency of enforcement.
Liberia cannot continue operating a government in which performance contracts are celebrated during signing ceremonies while their outcomes remain unclear to the citizens who finance government operations.
A performance contract without transparent evaluation is merely paperwork. An evaluation without consequences is an administrative ritual. And repeated threats without visible enforcement weaken public confidence in presidential leadership.
Your administration has approximately three years remaining. That is sufficient time to demonstrate meaningful progress, but not enough time to continue recycling promises. Therefore, I respectfully urge you to publish the results of the PMCS evaluations for 2024, 2025, and the completed portions of 2026, identifying institutional achievements, shortcomings, and corrective measure; make performance contracts publicly accessible so citizens can compare government promises with actual accomplishments; enforce consequences for persistent underperformance, including appropriate disciplinary action or dismissal, consistent with the law and applicable public service regulations, and require every ministry and agency to publish measurable quarterly progress reports, including expenditure, project implementation, service delivery, and outstanding commitments.
Mr. President, accountability must never depend on political connections, personal friendships, family relationships, or loyalty to the ruling party. It must depend on competence, integrity, lawful conduct, and measurable performance.
Liberians are not asking for miracles. They are asking for functioning public schools, accessible healthcare, reliable roads, employment opportunities, clean drinking water, and responsible management of public resources.
These are the standards against which your administration should be judged.
I agree with you that government must not become a friendship club. However, the responsibility to ensure that it does not become one belongs primarily to you.
You cannot repeatedly warn officials about underperformance while leaving the public uncertain about the enforcement of the very performance contracts your administration introduced.
Mr. President, Liberia needs fewer ceremonies, fewer warnings, and more measurable results.
As we enter the final week of October 2026, my question remains simple:
- PRESIDENT, WHEN WILL YOU ENFORCE YOUR OWN PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS, NOT JUST THREATEN DISMISSALS?
The Liberian people deserve an answer backed by action.”
