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VEEP BOAKAI
IN LIMBO?
Sirleafs Latest Statement, Not Ruling out His Own Presidential Bid
Rob
Raises uncertainty Over Vice Presidents political future.
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Monrovia
or much of her first term and portions of her second,
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf had the luxury of time in
her favor, repeatedly ignoring calls from her critics and
the international community to rid her administration
of bad apples and take steps to curb corruption, viewed as the
Achilles heel in her presidency.
The killer instinct of the Iron lady persona she rode to the
presidency for many had been abandoned although Sirleafs
supporters would argue that she did take steps to set up integrity
institutions and show some perceived rotten apples the door in
the latter stages of her first term.
With a little more than two years remaining before the 2017
elections, Sirleaf last week, sought, in a nation-wide address, to
reassure Liberians that she was still in control but needed the
help of all as her administration limps toward the injury time in
the remaining moments of her presidency.
As your leader, the president declared: I will remain true to
our cherished ideals. I therefore ask for your continued trust and
confidence to help me get these important things done. I ask for
the same unity of purpose across the useful diversities of our
government and our society the diversities which improves
governance and make our society stronger. I ask all of you for the
same spirit of community ownership and collective urgency as we
embark on the road for Post-Ebola Recovery.
The problem for Sirleaf is a familiar refrain for many leaders
facing similar predicament of a democratic twilight toward the
end of their presidency, aptly described as the lame duck era, the
fading light at the end of the tunnel, one dreaded by leaders when
the clock ticks toward the endgame. Herein, although leaders
tend to show an exterior of toughness toward the end of their
terms, yet they are belabored by thoughts of what went wrong
and thoughts emerge of how they would be perceived. Some
even begin to wonder about possible lapses that could lead to
legal entanglements for allies, friends and family members. The
recent conviction of Karin Wade in Senegal is indicative of how it
might end for politically exposed persons in this administration
including the presidents son.
For the foreseeable future, many political observers and
international partners agree that Sirleaf would need to make
adjustments in some key areas in a bid to secure her legacy and
post-presidency standings. The conventional wisdom is that the
president will govern on a business as usual platform, but others
are hopeful she can turn the tide through aggressive tactics to
deal with the countrys many challenges.
SECURITY GAP- POST UNMIL
Perhaps the most pressing concern is the post-war security
which, since 2003 has been in the hands of the United Nations
Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). But the UN Security Council last
week put Liberia on notice in a draft resolution reaffirming the
councils expectation that the government of Liberia will assume
full responsibility for security from UNMIL by 30 June 2016.
While the council requested Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to
continue to streamline and consolidate the activities of UNMIL
across its civilian, police and military components in light of the
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FOOD SECURITY
Liberia is worse off in terms of security than it was during prewar
years and even the short regime of Charles G. Bryant. Local
produce such as plantain, cassava, eddoes and other vegetables
and fruits now have limited supplies on the Liberian market.
Farming activities across the country has declined greatly while
the Ministry of Agriculture is a Monrovia based entity.
Access to farming implements is very difficult for the ordinary
Liberian farmers and getting their produce to the market is
another challenge which has forced many into abandoning
farming activities.
Industry observers say the Ministry of Agriculture, within the
last ten years has failed to put in place concrete and sustainable
programs to empower small holder farmers as evidenced by the
decline in local production where nearly all the food products
are imported from Ivory Coast and Guinea. As a result, Liberia is
one of the most food insecure countries in Africa, with one in five
people food insecure. According to the Comprehensive Food and
Nutrition Survey, some counties like Bomi, the Presidents home
being 70 percent food insecure. The Ministry of Agriculture is
run by bureaucrats sitting in offices in Monrovia. Even with
substantial donor support, yet no real impact in food security has
been achieved over the last ten years of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Administration.
The closure of the border exposed the unproductive agriculture
sector of Liberia as prices of food commodities increased during
the entire Ebola outbreak. Pepper and other common food have
been scarce on the Liberian market in the wake of Ebola...
With less than three years left to go, it is difficult to see how EJS
can turn things around in making Liberia to have some level of
food security. Experts say she has to find a solution to the barriers
to agriculture, including funding.
HEALTH
The health sector of Liberia is no doubt one of the weakest; firstly
the majority of the nurses and other healthcare practitioners
are not up to the task. The Medical school at the University of
Liberia does not resemble a high school, a place without good
laboratory and other facilities but yet it is where Liberian doctors
are produced and sent out to offer medical services to the people.
Students graduate from the bachelor program at the University
of Liberia without knowing what a laboratory is and the trend
continues to the medical school, where everything is just reading,
less practical.
At the A.M. Dogliotii College of Medicine, students study in
darkness using candles and practical experiment is lacking
in large part; these students later become doctors to provide
medical treatment to Liberians.
Liberia could perhaps go into the Guinness Book of records if
research is done on how people get diagnosed of sicknesses in
the country.
It will come as a surprise to hear that some of the equipment used
in clinics and other hospitals in Liberia diagnose people differently.
At one clinic a patient is diagnosed of typhoid while at another the
same patient is diagnosed with malaria. Two tests, same patient
with different diagnoses. Critics say President Sirleaf and many
of her officials may be out of touch of the realities facing health
care delivery for the poor because many enjoy the luxury of flying
to the United States, of late, India and other countries for routine
medical checkups and treatment.
Said Sirleaf in her recent address to the nation With
vulnerabilities exposed at the height of the outbreak, we continue
to lift the rebuilding of the health system as a primary concern.
Toward this end, we are implementing a ten-year program of
training of health care professionals, improving and expanding
services at primary and secondary healthcare centers, upgrading
county hospitals and establishing three regional hospitals. We are
emphasizing the repositioning of JFK to meet its envisioned role
as a national referral center.
The ongoing Ebola outbreak exposed the lapses in the sector
which has been in such awful state for years.
In recent days, patients at JFK have been complaining about
service with many being forced to purchase drugs and other
supplies from Lucky Pharmacy, across the street due to the lack
of drugs, despite enormous supplies and contributions from the
international community to the hospital.
In rural Liberia, people continue to die because they cannot get
access to a nearby health facilities and they have to commute by
foot for up to four hours to get to the nearest poorly equipped
health center.
The Jackson F. Doe Hospital in Tappita, Nimba County has been
doing well, but some complaints have arisen in recent months
that it is not affordable to the ordinary Liberian.
EDUCATION
Even Sirleaf is on record of agreeing with her critics about the sad
state of the education sector. It remains an open secret: that I am
a critic perhaps too harsh a critic of our educational system,
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Monroviaxercising
Section
20.2 of the Criminal
Procedure
Law
that gives right to a
defendant to waive jury trial,
Criminal Court C Judge Peter
Gbeneweleh has endorsed
the right of former Forestry
Development Authority (FDA)
boss, Moses Wogbeh and five
other defendants to waive jury.
Wogbeh and the rest of the
defendants through their
lawyers Wednesday, told the
court to allow them go through
trial without jury, a plea that
angered state prosecutors who
preferred jury trial.
Judge Gbeneweleh said in his
ruling late Wednesday, that
under the law, a defendant
has two options while on trial
either to choose jury trial or
not.
The right for the defendants
to waive jury trial is the right
exercised under the Criminal
Procedure Law Section 20.2,
said Judge Gbeneweleh when
he ruled to grant the five
defendants the right to waive
jury trial.
UNPRECEDENTED
KILLERS
Health official describes HIV, TB
Sinoe County:
he Sinoe County,
Acting County Health
Officer (CHO) Mr.
Samson Q. Wiah has
called for joint efforts from
government, civil society,
community
leaders
and
international partners to fight
HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) in
the country.
Mr. Wiah said, it is about time
that Liberians see HIV and
AIDS and TB as unprecedented
elements which are seeking to
destroy human existence.
Both diseases have can kill.
They can be prevented and
treated, but with collective
efforts we can beat them. So
I call on you my people come
let us respond to HIV and TB
together Acting CHO of Sinoe
noted.
Speaking at a two day dialogue
organized by The Secretariat
of
Liberia
Coordinating
Mechanism (LCM) of the Global
Fund HIV, TB and MalariaSinoe Team; the team he said,
is seeking to identify HIV and
TB priority.
You will be interacting and
providing your suggestions.
You will be reviewing the TB
and HIV NSPs so that you can
select key priorities that you
want for Global Fund to focus
on that the government will
VEEP BOAKAI
IN LIMBO?
Rob Sirleafs Latest Statement, Not Ruling out His Own Presidential
Bid Raises uncertainty Over Vice Presidents political future.
Rodney D. Sieh, [email protected]
R
F
Monrovia
obert Sirleafs first
hint at a possible
2017 play has many
political observers
MonroviarontPageAfrica
has
gathered
that
an
indictment
might
soon
be
drawn
against individuals involved
in the alleged trafficking
of some Liberian girls who
were promised better living
conditions and made to travel
to Lebanon in search of greener
pasture only to be subjected to
many forms of abuse.
After years in Lebanon against
their will the Government
of Liberia recently said it
successfully
ensured
the
repatriation of the girls to
Liberia but their whereabouts
remain unknown.
Authorities at the Liberian
National Police, the Ministries
of Labor and Justice have all
disclosed that the girls are
being kept in a secret location
because they are victims of
abuse.
Sources have confided in
FPA that the government
is preparing an indictment
against individuals involved
with the transporting of the
girls to Lebanon on charges of
trafficking.
The law provides that a person
is guilty of the offense of
trafficking in human beings
and migrant smuggling, also
a predicate offense to money
laundering
and
terrorist
financing when they subject a
person to slavery.
A representative of the
Liberian
community
in
Frontpage
me, it doesn't involve me, the ...
decision maker is the Liberian
people," he said.
President Sirleaf, whose term
ends in 2017 has so far been
coy about her transition and
succession plans drawing
dissenting conundrum among
some aides in her inner circle.
Sirleaf has inconsistent about
her post presidency and a role
for Boakai.
In a 2011 FrontPageAfrica
interview, Sirleaf suggested
that both she and Boakai
would leave the stage after her
term is over in 2017.
Said Sirleaf: Joe Boakai and I
have stuck together. We stuck
together for the first term,
were sticking together again
for the second term. We hope
that God will give us the second
term and he and I will retire
together. We will both leave
public office and turn it over to
the young people and go and
rest ourselves. He will be with
me right to the end.
Then in a stopover in Greenville,
Sinoe County, suggested her
long-time aide, Mary Broh as a
possible replacement in 2017,
declaring: Madam Broh is
hardworking and I prefer for
her to replace me as President
of Liberia.
Criticisms have been aplenty
about Boakais own readiness
to assume the mantle of
leadership
with
some
suggesting that the humble
vice president has been too
passive and not asserting
himself to the role.
Boakai sought to allay those
fears to his supporters and
sympathizers by drawing
a comparison to former
president William R. Tolbert,
when he told FrontPageAfrica
in a 2012 interview: I know
that we live in different times
but I know that Tolbert was
that type. But again, I look at
the period in which we live
when Tubman and Tolbert
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dollars each.
It has also been established
that they were used as sex
slaves; and subjected to force
labour, and other forms of
slavery.
Some of the girls revealed that
they were physically assaulted
whenever they refused to have
DIRTY BUCKET
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O
Monrovia-
ne of Liberias
leading
Ebola
fighters
and
Director General of
the General Services Agency
Madam Mary Broh Thursday
refused to adhere to Ebola
preventive measures to wash
her hands at the Ministry
of Information, Culture and
Tourism slamming the Ministry
for maintaining a dirty bucket
at the entrance.
Washing
hands
before
entry public buildings is a
nationwide measure against
Ebola but Broh who had gone
to MICAT to address a regular
press briefing shock the public
on live press briefing when
she responded by a reporter
question about her refusal to
wash hands before entry by
referring to the bucket used for
washing hands at MICAT as
dirty.
system.
Dr Ramharter said these
antibodies hide, almost like a
Trojan horse, in the body in
order to successfully fight the
Ebola virus if the individual
becomes infected.
He added: Just one vaccine has
European centres.
In the phase II studies that are
now beginning, the vaccine will
be used in patients living in
the areas currently most badly
affected by Ebola, especially
Guinea and Sierra Leone, but
also in Liberia.
The first case of Ebola was
reported in West Africa around
15 months ago. According to
estimates, around 25,000 people
have been infected by the virus,
with more than 10,000 of them
having died since as a result.
The race is on to find ways
to prevent and cure the Ebola
virus as there are no proven
treatments or vaccines to prevent
individuals becoming infected.
But progress is now being made
on an unprecedented scale with
trials which would normally take
years and decades being fast
tracked on a timescale of weeks
and months.
The aim is to use the lowest dose
of vaccine possible that provides
protection. Vaccines train the
immune systems of healthy
people to fight off any future
infection.
26-year-old Liberian,
Leo G. Dolo could
be deported from
Italy if he refuses
to provide documents to
authenticate the legality that
led to his entry in that European
country, FrontPage Africa has
learnt.
Dolo is among score of
Liberians in Italy who are
undergoing probe by that
countrys immigration agency
over their entries there. Dolo,
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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT:
VACANCIES
In February 2014, the MLME announced the start of surveys along the rights of
way of the two transmission lines. These rights of way follow the routes of the
pre-war lines that were in operation up to 1990, with a few exceptions. The
intention of the announcement was to re-establish the Government rights of
way.
The power lines run along the Harrisburg, Pipe Line, White Planes, and Caldwell
Roads. All residents living in areas where the towers will be placed and within
the corridor where the lines will be strung were notified and their assets
(structures, trees, and crops) were recorded by LEC. Residents were informed
that any trees taller than 4 meters would need to be permanently removed, and
that temporary vegetation clearing would be carried out during construction.
The survey began February 24, 2014, which was the same date established
as the cut-off date for the Resettlement Action Plan. This means that any
structure or asset established or developed after February 24, 2014, would
not be eligible for compensation. However, the project follows the World Bank
policy on involuntary resettlement, meaning that no person affected by the
project, regardless of their status, will be left worse off or impoverished by the
project. Therefore, all persons whose livelihood or assets will be affected and
which were recorded during the February 2014 survey will be compensated for
those assets.
Furthermore, all persons whose legal ownership of the land can be verified by
the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy (MLME) by way of a legitimate deed,
and whose land occurs within the right of way, will be compensated for the land.
In order to effect the compensation for land and built structures, the project
team, with the support of the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) and the MLME,
needs to carry out a process of verification.
Beginning on April 13, 2015, the PIU, MLME, and MPW will be visiting residents
along the corridors of both lines to issue citations calling for property deeds.
All persons with valid deeds for their land must present them to the MLME
for verification and property valuation before they can be compensated. Any
persons who have structures within the right of way must also present their
deeds for verification and property valuation. Any structures within the right
of way will be marked by MPW and must be removed when instructed by MPW.
Compensation has already been assessed for all affected properties and the
estimated sum of money has been put into a dedicated account for this purpose.
Persons not claiming legal ownership of the land and possessing only trees or
crops do NOT need to come forward as these assets have already been recorded
by the PIU. Following the citation for deeds, the PIU social safeguards team will
be visiting each affected person to explain the amount of compensation that
has been estimated for the trees and crops. Any structure built or tree planted
after the initial survey and cut-off date in February of last year will NOT be
compensated for that structure.
The Government asks that all persons living or making their businesses within
the rights of way of the Mt. Coffee transmission lines cooperate fully with this
exercise to do their part in ensuring the project stays on schedule.
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Fuel subsidies
Does the steep drop in oil prices provide a rare opportunity to
reform fuel subsidies?
% of GDP
10
But many other countries have not acted and the subsidies remain widespread. For those considering reforms, what lessons have
been learnt over recent years about the best approaches?
First, clear communication and public consultation is fundamental. The public can understand and support reforms as long as they
trust the government to carry them out properly, and are informed
about why the change is necessary. Tanzania, for instance, has set up
a specialised regulatory entity that helps the public understand the
need for fuel subsidy reforms and reports back on the functioning of
the market, according to a 2013 IMF report.
Second, the poor can be protected from the fallout of energy subsidy reforms. In its electricity reforms, Kenya provided households
using less than 50 kilowatt-hours per month a lifeline power tariff
that was below cost of production. Conditional cash transfers are
another option. If not too burdensome administratively, countries
can keep some subsidies in place for public transport, as in Niger
and Ghana.
Ghana has also been a leader in pursuing parallel programmes
in which public investments are made to counteract the subsidy removal. Back in 2004, the Ghanaian government raised fuel prices by
50%, but this was coupled with an anti-poverty programme that included the elimination of primary and secondary school fees, funding for primary health programmes, rural electrification and the
urban transport network. Not everyone was happy, of course, least
of all the trade unions. But Ghanas process was far more constructive than Nigerias in which public communication was minimal
and significant amounts of the proceeds from the removed subsidy
went missing.
If it is well-designed, gradual and includes offset mechanisms to
protect the poorest, subsidy reform can put African economies on
a sounder fiscal footing. It can free up much-needed resources for
the direct public investments that are needed to support long-term,
sustainable growth.
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Monday, April 6, 2015
BRINGING RELIEF
A
South Africa Commences The Issuance Of Visas In Liberia
Monrovia
fter
months
of
intensive
bilateral
discussions
between
the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the South African Embassy, the
Republic of South Africa has
announced it has now brought
in the necessary equipment to
begin the issuance of South
African visas at its Embassy
near Monrovia.
The disclosure was made
Friday, April 2, 2015 in the
Conference Room of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
when the South African Envoy
to Liberia, H.E. Masilo Esau
Mabeta, paid a courtesy call
on Foreign Minister Augustine
Kpehe Ngafuan.
According to a Foreign Ministry
release, visa applications will
be received and processed
from Monday through Friday
between 8:00 am to 12:00 p.m.
weekly.
Making the disclosure at
the Foreign Ministry Friday
Ambassador
Mabeta
said
his embassy is aware of the
inconveniences
faced
by
many Liberians who had
been constrained to travel to
neighboring states in order to
travel to South Africa.
The South African Ambassador
regretted the difficulty that had
been faced by Liberians as a
consequence of the inability of
the South African Embassy to
issue visas in Monrovia, which
Librarians
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Monrovia,
s Liberians mark
one year since the
first
confirmed
case of Ebola in
their country, a communitybased public-health education
campaign is helping to bring the
virus under control and setting
the stage for Liberias recovery.
Led by the global humanitarian
organization Mercy Corps,
the massive campaign has
successfully reached 2 million
people in the past six months
with
lifesaving
prevention
practices and behaviors to
reduce Ebola transmission.
The organization will also be
providing cash transfers and
agricultural supplies such as
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IN BRIEF
former
vice
president
of
Zimbabwe, Joyce
Mujuru, has been
expelled from the ruling
party, Zanu-PF.
The party said she had
plotted to remove President
Robert Mugabe from office
and brought the party into
disrepute.
She had been been seen as a
likely successor to President
Mugabe but was sacked at
the end of last year.
She
was
accused
of
corruption and plotting to kill
the president - allegations she
denied.
Mr Mugabe, 91, will have
been in power for 35 years
when Zimbabwe marks its
independence from the UK
later this month.
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NUCLEAR WAR TO DRIVE
NATO OUT OF BALTICS
enyan
President
Uhuru Kenyatta has
vowed to respond
"in the severest ways
possible" to the al-Shabab
militant attack on Garissa
university in which 148 people
died.
In an address to the nation,
Mr Kenyatta said the Islamist
group posed an "existential
threat" to Kenya.
He also said the government
would take steps to crack
down on those who planned
and financed terrorist attacks.
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Sports
ARSENAL THRASH LIVERPOOL
A
rsenal tightened their
grip on a place in the
Premier League's top
four while inflicting
damage
on
Liverpool's
Champions League aspirations
with a convincing victory at
Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners set the platform
for a vital three points with
a devastating burst of three
goals in the last eight minutes
of the first half from Hector
Bellerin, Mesut Ozil and Alexis
Sanchez.
Raheem Sterling - starting up
front for Liverpool after the
midweek interview with the
BBC that cast further doubt on
his long-term Anfield future
- battled hard and won a late
penalty from which Jordan
Henderson pulled a goal back.
In reality, however, this was
little other than an afternoon
of unrelenting misery for an
abject Liverpool, who had Emre
Can sent off for two bookable
offences before Olivier Giroud
delivered the final blow with a
spectacular fourth for Arsenal
in the closing seconds.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger
will feel a place in next
season's Champions League
is now within his grasp but
Liverpool's hopes are fading
as they followed up the 2-1
home defeat by Manchester
United by being convincingly
outplayed.
The win puts Arsenal nine
points ahead of Liverpool
with seven games left, while
target.
There was little indication
of the mayhem to come as
the game moved towards the
interval - but Arsenal delivered
three heavy hits to Liverpool in
the final eight minutes of the
half.
Bellerin's finish for the first,
cutting in from the the right
before a precise left-foot finish
into the bottom corner, was
exemplary but the defending
of Liverpool's Alberto Moreno
was nothing short of shambolic
as he virtually ushered his
opponent into a dangerous
position.
Arsenal's second came three
minutes later as Ozil curled a
delightful 25-yard free-kick
beyond Mignolet and the third
arrived on the stroke of halftime when Sanchez scored
with a thunderous shot from
obert Lewandowski
netted the only
goal against his
former club as
Bayern
Munich
defeated
Borussia Dortmund 1-0 in the
Bundesliga.
Robert Lewandowski proved
the scourge of former club
Borussia Dortmund with the
only goal in Bayern Munich's
1-0 Bundesliga victory.
The Poland international left
Signal Iduna Park to join the
reigning champion at the end of
last season, and it was his 36thminute header that separated
the two sides on Saturday.
Lewandowski had failed to
make much of an impact
when he returned to Dortmund
with Bayern in the Super Cup
back in August - a game that
his former side won 2-0. But
he showed his customary
predatory instincts to convert
the rebound after Roman
Weidenfeller
had
saved
Thomas Muller's initial effort,
giving Bayern a measure of
revenge.
The Polish striker refused to
celebrate his match-winner as a
mark of respect to his old team.
That goal was his second in
as many league games against
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SPORTS
he
Red
Devils'
Champions League
hopes look more
solid than ever
as they brushed aside the
Villans at Old Trafford, the
Spanish midfielder scoring at
the end of each half
Manchester United put eight
points between themselves
and Liverpool as they saw off
Aston Villa 3-1 on Saturday,
Ander Herrera scoring twice.
Their top-four ambitions
boosted by Arsenal's win
against the Reds earlier
in the day, the Red Devils
consolidated their position
with a largely comfortable
victory at Old Trafford.
iego
Simeone's
side
leapfrogged
Valencia in the
table, though their
rivals will reclaim third place
if they beat Villarreal on
Sunday
Antoine Griezmann and
Saul both scored as Atletico
Madrid moved into third
place with a polished 2-0
victory away to Cordoba.
Griezmann got the visitors
off to a fine start with a
well-taken finish after five
minutes and his tireless
work rate proved a nuisance
throughout.
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