A Entrance-page remark: The Hazard of electing hoodlums to energy
By Othello B. Garblah
Unfolding occasions on the House of Representatives, coupled with the early Wednesday morning arson assault on the Capitol Building, the seat of the National Legislature, displays the alternatives Liberians have made through the years throughout elections.
A rustic that places recognition over competence normally winds up electing to energy hoodlums – troublemakers and hooligans who haven’t matured or don’t have the requisite understanding of what it means to be a statesman and even be referred to as an honorable.
These women and men, most uncouth, rising proper from the kitchen tables, plank fields, market stalls, workplace doorways of others, and so on., had been lucky to be elected on both social gathering strains or sympathy fairly than by competence; thereby, missing the understanding or have no idea the magnitude of the job earlier than them.
As such, the one manner they know the right way to resolve battle is thru the methods they know finest by way of acts of hooliganism or gangsterism- but they take residence a bit of the nation’s meager nationwide finances as salaries and allowances. They entered politics with their eyes set on cash, not the availability of the form of management the nation yearns for.
But what else can we anticipate from these women and men who now see politics as the simple path to wealth.
Liberia’s National Legislature, significantly the House of Representatives, is a compendium of largely illiterate people who rose from being “House boys and Yana boys and girls” to state energy.
But once more, we, the Liberian electorates, are the responsible events right here. And to cite Amb. Nathaniel Barnes, Liberia’s former Ambassador to the UN, mentioned, “A country gets the type of leadership it deserves.”
When folks vote based mostly on sentiments and lack of information of the problems at coronary heart, resounding outcomes would almost certainly lead the nation to retrogression-trust me.
Why has President Boakai didn’t train management to this point?
The determination by President Joseph Boakai to take a aspect within the ongoing management disaster on the House of Representatives, a disaster which has recorded a sequence of occasions earlier than the Capitol Building was infected early Wednesday morning, exhibits a scarcity of management.
As an aged statesman with over 40 years of expertise in authorities, President Boakai is able to perceive this nation’s most up-to-date historical past and why such political tensions are pointless for his administration.
A rustic lagging in virtually every thing, from infrastructure to human capability, wants to not have interaction in self-destruction as Liberians are witnessing at present.
Again, as an aged statesman, the ability to unite each events inside the ongoing Speakership disaster on the House of Representatives is in his palms. He might have intervened and settled the matter. If he’s bent on having Koon as Speaker, as it’s evident, he might have inspired the bulk bloc to provide the embattled speaker his due course of and eliminated him by the legislation.
To bypass such course of and publicly show his selection for Koon’s management regardless of the Supreme Court’s ruling to revert to the established order additionally demonstrates a failure in management on the highest stage of the nation’s management.
Politics apart, Liberia deserves higher and till the electorates revert from selecting recognition over competence-Liberia’s future would stay bleak.
