The Unity Party currently finds itself on the wrong side of the political debate in Liberia. Here we have an incumbent party so unpopular that it has to resort to continuous skullduggery to stay afloat.
Liberians are pestered with daily chest beatings of paid spokespersons whose actions are tantamount to a callous display of assumed political invincibility. For the Unity Party there seems to exist TWO Liberias. One Liberia where the minority elites fare well and the other Liberia where the silent majority slip deeper and deeper into poverty and dearth. If left unchecked, this party is hell-bent on plunging our nation further into the economic abyss.
Liberians were recently subjected to the bogus semi-utopian promises of the PRS. Earlier we had the multiple investments announcements by major international corporations – regurgitated by NIC’s Tolbert (who couldn’t provide an accurate count of the jobs his outfit created). Then we had the FREE money SCAM for votes in Bomi. To top it all we had the shameful public adulations of the Pyrrhic victory regarding DEBT relief. A RELIEF that offered NOTHING in the near term for the 80% of Liberians who are unemployed and live way below the “poverty line”.
Politically, it is evident that the Unity Party is at its wits end. Even the dangling of Commany’s wife before the citizens of River Gee could NOT guarantee the Unity Party a victory there.
Despite the mentioned PUBLIC failures the Unity Party, overwhelmed by self-induced stupor assumes that the opposition CDC is irrelevant. Its members mainly composed of brigands and its leaders woefully unprepared for national leadership. On the other hand the CDC has proven itself to be a better alternative to the failed leadership of the Unity Party.
One would imagine that with the Unity Party accumulated illegal largess coupled with its penchant for illegalities the River Gee by-elections would have been a foregone conclusion. The aftermath of this by-election will to a large extend be a shadow of the 2011 presidential elections.
As we all wait the second round the Unity Party is at a loss to properly articulate to Liberians what tangible deliverables her stewardship has offered them all these four plus years.
With this plethora of failures it is ONLY a very irresponsible and insensitive administration that will seek a second term despite lacking a clear vision to improve the lives of Liberians.
As we go to press, one of the embodiments of Liberian law enforcement and justice, former police director Munah Sieh, has been recommended for prosecution for alleged acts of corruption – the least said about this REGULAR occurrence will suffice!
In its bizarre zero sum game, the Unity party has resigned Liberians to fail as the party slides down the slippery slope into oblivion.
In the cause of the people the STRUGGLE continues.
Benjamin Kofa Fyneah
Gainesville, Florida | http://liberiaspeaks.com/starke
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