LIKE A SUNDAY service chorus, Liberians continue to seek the dire need to fiercely fight corruption for a better Liberia, but holding the bull by the horns has often appear illusive over the years.
IN OUR MIND, the fight longed for has become unbeatable simply because the hands in the cookie jar remain very manipulative as the vice stands ‘traditional’ as a normal will of life for people to live and reach the peak of wealth.
OVER THE YEARS; especially during electioneering periods, politicians had vowed to fight and curb corruption if elected but many past elected governments in Liberia had failed to conquer the peril while perpetrators had amassed unlawful wealth at the detriment of the masses that put them into power.
FROM SAMUEL K. DOE to Charles G. Taylor; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; George M. Weah; and regimes before these former Presidents, corruption had fought a good fight against the nation and winners had been and still are those elected to serve the country and its people but to a disappointing end.
TODAY, ANOTHER LEADER with very long public service wealth of experience, Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. has stepped in to combat corruption under a popular political phrase ‘no business as usual’.
AS IT STANDS, President Boakai missiles are striking former officials of the Weah-led administration but critics have termed the move as selective justice and witch-hunt while supporters of the Unity Party-led regime have deemed the exercise as appropriate and well in place to right the wrong done to the country for decades.
HOWEVER, THE UNFOLDING debate points at critics insisting that the clampdown on corruption should start from Madam Sirleaf two terms’ regime which President Boakai was an insider, while supporters of the current regime arguing that the Weah-led administration should have audited the Sirleaf regime but deliberately deemed it unnecessary.
FOR THE RECORD, the stance taken in support of government current audit reports on former Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel Tweah, CBL Governor Aloysius Tarlue and others, all from the Weah era, somehow demonstrates breaking away from the ugly past but we caution the Boakai administration to do the needful legally void of selective justice and witch-hunt.
BEARING IN MIND our difficult years of bloodbath, coupled with the deaths of thousands of citizens and the ruining of the country beyond repair during the unforgettable civil war, we also encourage President Boakai to chase wherever the arrows point to corruption den, be it for former and current officials of government who may be caught red-handed in the process; to reflect transparency and accountability.
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