Sam Ajavon piece titled " Calling the CDC's bluff published on the Running Africa website begs a reaction. My personal interaction(s) with the man, Mr Ajavon, will compel me to be civil despite Mr Ajavon public and wholesale ridicule of the CDC, and her partisans, of which I am a member.
The piece is laden with NUMEROUS falsehoods that need to be publicly debunked and exposed for the fabrications that they really are.
Numbering Taylor's bandits
The first wrong assumption was the strength of Mr. Taylor's rag-tag army. For your information Mr Ajavon, Liberia’s warring factions were NEVER fully disarmed. The disarmament process, like most events in Liberia was overshadow by rumors and complicated by ECOMOG’s questionable neutrality.
Most of the rebel groups wrongly transferred their distrust for ECOMOG to their successor, UNMIL. There were no ways, humanly possible, to verify the numbers of personnel in the various killing bands that roamed Liberia simply because they had no core organizational structure(s). To assume any number in terms of their actual strength will be the height of folly.
“The false perception continues today".
Well, I will point Mr Ajavon to the recent Montserrado county senatorial by-election as proof of the CDC's strength and popularity. Does Mr Ajavon recognize the effort and resources the Unity party employed to ensure victory ? This was indeed a referendum on the sitting government. A government that has lost its way, has become bereft of credibility and mortally wounded by an unprecedented level of gross ineptitude.
“ordinary Liberians who may have little to do but roam the streets”
It is WRONG for Mr Ajavon to depict CDC partisans as hoodlums. This wrong perception is fast becoming the Unity Party undoing. Mr Ajavon, do you remember the insulting label with which Former president Tolbert christened Ellen and her cohorts in the seventies - during Ellen heydays as a rabble rouser ? Do you remember the names Samuel Doe called Ellen and her cohorts in the eighties ? Indeed, history has a STRANGE way of repeating itself
Doubts !
Currently, If any major Liberian politician attracts ANY doubts it is Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf. With advanced age setting in coupled with MASSIVE corruption and INCOMPETENCE one can ONLY wonder why the second term venture. Is it a sign of the usual African leaders "I want to die in power mentality"? Or an indicator that total power is totally corrupting Madame Johnson-Sirleaf's mind ?
“fear and uncertainty that diminishes his electability“
Mr Ajavon, if anyone or any group of Liberians are overwhelmed with fear it is Unity Party partisans. Their collective shock, fear and uncertainties were brought by an individual whom they perceived as a “nobody” who, to a large extent, has been able to confound and challenge their exaggerated sense of self-worth and false belief of been destined to Lord over the Liberian nation and people
Mr Ajavon, Samuel Doe launched a so-called revolution in 1980, a revolution brought about by inequalities and enacted by myriad of forces. It was a revolution deeply rooted in angst of a CORRUPT and repressive system that sustained itself through chicaneries and devious political machinations.
The ultimate Liberian revolution will be enacted come 2011, a revolution that promises to give birth to a Modern Liberian state, a revolution not born out of strife and violence but one that will be FULLY clothed with the popular mandate and collective will of the Liberian people united under the banner of the CDC !
Benjamin Kofa Fyneah
Gainesville, Florida
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