If this is the best of americo liberia then what are the natives waiting for

REVOLUTIONARY FOOD FOR THOUGHT Read, rRead, Read!!!. Read everything – thrash, classics, good, and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice,…..studies the master, read! You will absorb it….If it is good, you will find it out. If it is not good, then throw it out of the window – William Faulkner

Talking all the harsh truths now, to solve each one of our country’s major problems once and for all, is much cheaper than keeping all the grieves to pile up, so that it bursts out later, and we then buy big, big guns to fight war for 20 years again – Plain Truth Revolution

Vision is not enough.

It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs – Vaclav Havel

“IF THIS IS THE BEST EVER, AND THE MOST EDUCATED OF ALL AMERICO-LIBERIAN LEADERSHIPS – IN HARVARD -TRAINED ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF, THEN WHAT SHOULD THE NATIVES STILL BE WAITING FOR, TO RECLAIM THEIR LAND FROM THE HANDS OF AMERICA AND HER AMERICO-LIBERIANS?” We must retake our arm robbed country since 1821, now!!, but in a different, civilized, and much more sustainable way, and redesign it better for ourselves, our future generations, and everyone else, including the very Americo-Liberians themselves, who have destroyed our country for 194 years now. But let’s warned with emphasis here that if we refuse to act right now, this 2017, the dangers for such refusal, and for keep bowing our heads to these wolves in sheep clothing, are already again at our door steps in red!!!!!”

(1) Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade [the others], then neither persons nor property will [ever] be safe – Frederick Douglass (2) The size of your dream must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, then they are not [just] big enough – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (3) We can never win anything precious unless we are willing to give up something even more endearing – Roland Spencer Kartee

SPIRITUAL EXHORTATIONS (1) So Joshua said to the sons of Israel. How long are you going to be delinquent about going in to take possession of the land that Jehovah, the God of your forefathers has given you? – Joshua 18: 3 (2) Then the king of Israel said to his servants: Do you really know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us? Yet, we are hesitating to take out of the hand of the king of Syria? – I Kings 22: 3 (3) The stupid one folds his hands while his flesh wastes away. – Ecclesiastes 4: 5 (4) O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor. For God can best protect both – Quran 4: 135 (5) No weapon formed against [us] shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against [us] shall be condemned. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me. – Isiah 54: 17

ADDENDUM I TO PAMPHLET # 2: “WHY DO WE NEED A COMPLETE REVOLUTION AND HOW CAN WE GO ABOUT IT” COMPILED: April 2016

DRAFTED: MAY 2016

PUBLISHED: JANUARY 2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introductory paragraphs (don’t be concerned about the length of our topics, just pick up the sense)……………………………………………………………….................1 2. The 16 fundamental arguments laying the premise for this pamphlet’s narrations……..1-8 3. How issues are attached to personalities and groups……………………………………...8 4. The mind-blowing achievements, plus world favor enjoyed by Americo-Liberia’s best – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf……………………………………………………………….9 5. How Ellen’s master, America, including President Obama blows her, and her Government’s trumpet…………………………………………………………………...10 6. How we use Economics to assess Ellen and her mammoth achievements as Harvard -trained and World Bank Economist……………………………………………………..11 a) How Liberia has 113 fundraising and profit making institutions and government departments/offices…………………………………………………………..............11 b) Liberia compared with the US States of Ohio and Tennessee, and the European State of Ireland based on size, opportunities and age………………………………..11 c) What constitutes economics, job creation and general productivity in Americo-Liberia……………………………………………………………………...12 7. National Leaders’ ONLY perception about how to create jobs, and how to generally boost their economy in Americo-Liberia, and in fact, the main reasons for which folks are elected on this other side of the globe……………………...12 (A) How every policy move or every governmental action and decision in AmericoLiberia is dictated by some foreign force or influence – nothing indigenous or endogenous………................................................................................................13 a) How Ellen handed Taylor over just for foreign aid………………………………….13 b) How government established integrity institutions (like the LACC, GAC, IAA, LEITI etc.) just for foreign aid……………………………………………….13 c) When does government even adopt operating policies and procedures……………..14 d) Foreign influence v. the recent LEC Reform bill……………………………………14 e) How KRL International is allegedly blocking Liberia’s TRC implementation process…………...............................................................................14 f) Madam Sirleaf clarifies the reason for joining the WTO……………………………14 (B) Creating Jobs and Boosting the Economy a) How the President of Liberia sometimes writes to be granted opportunity to travel to go beg, in the name of visiting……………………………………………..14 b) Piah on what Liberia will benefit from China………………………………………14 c) Piah updates public on how they got multiple partners’ support for 38 MW HFO Machine……………………………………………………………………………..15 d) Presidential Press Secretary on Ellen’s meeting with Prime Minister Abe………...15 e) President Sirleaf travels to Germany to make case for Lib.’s development………..16

f) g) h) i)

Piah boasts about his boss’ meeting with world leaders……………………………16 Ellen flies to India and China to beg for help………………………………………16 President Sirleaf celebrates China-Africa forum outcome…………………………16 Elkina Westley and Piah on how their government is developing Agriculture…….16

j) Madam President and high power delegation fly to 3 continents to appreciate Their assistance and ask for more assistance……………………………16 k) Ellen gives 3 key reasons to ‘Torwon Sullunteh’ for why she flies left, right, and Center, begging for development aid………………………………………………..17 l) Ellen offers her country’s natural resources while receiving foreign diplomats…...18 m) Madam President meets Chou Lee, asks China for double help at once…………...18 n) Ellen seeks outside help to support rural women farmers………………………….18 DOMESTIC JOB CREATION STRATEGIES AND BELIEFS o) President Sirleaf, her Speaker, and other top brass visit a foreign plastic Company on Jamaica Road in Monrovia…………………………………………..18 p) The President visits Firestone…………………………………………………...…18 q) Many more accounts of similar domestic activities……………………………......18 TACTICAL PROOF OF TOTAL DEPENDENCE ON OUTSIDE FUNDS r) Ellen lavishes praises on Amara Konneh……………………………………….....19 s) Amb. Deborah Malac decries Liberia’s economic model………………………..19 8. A very lazy and dull country that never does anything on her own – everything here is done by some so-called foreign partners…………………………20 a) b) c) d) e) f) g)

Liberian Government turns over Ebola fight to foreign NGOs……………………20 World Bank Ebola fight support breakdown………………………………………20 USAID constructs burial sites for Liberian Government during Ebola fight……...20 World Bank gives seed rice to Liberian farmers to enable them make farm………20 World Bank provides text books for Liberian public schools…………………......20 UNICEF provides vacation jobs for Liberian students on behalf of government.... 21 Some of the public work accomplishments boasted of by the Americo-Liberian Government……………………………………………………………………….21

h) Caldwell Bridge, Red Light to Gbarnga, Gbarnga-Ganta to Guinea Border roads rehabilitation works………………………………………………....21 i) j) k) l) m) n) o) p) q)

The current Somalia Drive road project…………………………………………...21 Gbarnga-Mendikorma proposed Road project………………………………….....22 The Bardnersville-Diggsville-New Georgia Caldell Road project...……………...22 RIA proposed rehabilitation project…………………………………………….....22 Montserrado teachers training……………………………………………………..22 Bong County Health Centers………………………………………………………23 World Heritage sites and UNESCO…………………………………………….....23 Civil Service Agency’s new software……………………………………………...23 Ellen at programs marking the completion of the MVTC rehabilitation by the Chinese Government ……………………………………………………………...23

r) Senator Dagoseh and his 8-mile road project.. ……………………………………24

s) Liberia and her government decentralization program……………………………24 t) Nathaniel Blamo on USAID work at the National Legislature……………………24 u) Ministry of Internal Affairs on mini dams research project…………………….....24 v) Elections Coordinating Committee and USAID funding……………………….....24 w) Liberia’s health workers housing project………………………………………….24 x) Liberia’s effort to train security to replace UNMIL……………………………....25 y) LACC’s World Bank Promo. …………………………………………………….25 z) NBC’s USAID funded software project………………………………………….25 aa) Wologisi Mountain fire incident…..……………………………………………...25 bb) Ellen begs UN for funds to conduct constitution review………………………....25 cc) Ellen justifies flying here and there for help.. ……………………………………25 9. Liberia: A Barren Land of Gifts, Grants, Loans, Donations, and Free Aids of different kinds…………………………………………………26 (A) LOANS (small sample of several accounts that filter in, in just 1.5 years) a) HOR ratifies US$20 million loan agreement……………………………………..26 b) President Sirleaf submits $20 million loan instrument to HOR for ratification….26 c) Sirleaf writes HOR to ratify two different loan instruments……………………..26 d) Piah discloses GOL’s receipt of US$144 million loan………………………………26 (B) GRANTS (small sample of several accounts that filter in, in just 1.5 years) a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) k) l) m) n) o) p) q) r) s) t) u) v) w) x) y)

FAO provides US$318,000 to fight cattle disease…………………………………...27 USAID signs $25 million municipal water grant……………………………………27 Sweden commits $88 million to Liberia. …………………………………………....27 Liberia’s 2015/2016 budget gets $279 injection from EU…………………………...27 World Bank provides $54 million to cut poverty and food insecurity in Liberia……27 Sweden gives $32 million to Liberia annually………………………………………27 Liberia manages EU $30 million for LEC reform…………………………………...27 MCC approves US$257 million for Liberia………………………………………....27 GOL-World Bank sign $132 million agreement…………………………………….27 Liberia gets EU financial support for climate change……………………………….27 GOL and US Government launch $5 million security radio project………………...27 GOL and World Bank sign $46 million financing agreement……………………….27 Liberia gets $37 million to sustain forest…………………………………………….27 World Bank gives $10 million for Liberia’s extremely poor………………………..27 World Bank approves $27 million for mini hydro plant in Lofa County…………....28 World Bank approves $10 million for water crisis…………………………………..28 Government receives $14 million from World Bank to relocate Redemption Hospital..

USAID and GOL sign $59.1 million for health sector………………………………28 GOL and EU sign $60 million financing agreement………………………………...28 Swedish envoy commits $158 million to Liberia…………………………………...28 Liberia to get $1.26 billion as share of Ebola money………………………………..28 World Bank approves $27 million for rural electrification………………………….28 GOL signs $25 million agreement with Germany…………………………………..28 World Bank President announces over $1 billion to Ebola countries……………….28 VP Offices receives $1.4 million in grant…………………………………………...28

(C) DONATIONS AND GOODWILLS (small sample of several accounts that filter in, in just 1.5 years) a) Save the Children donates 7 motorbikes……………………………………………..29 b) China donate $1.2 million vehicle fleet……………………………………………...29 c) CHICO donates farming tools……………………………………………………….29 d) UNFPA donates ambulances and motorbikes……………………………………….29 e) UNFPA donates vehicles…………………………………………………………….29 f) World Bank, Others, donate $1.8 million worth of items to boost health…………...29 g) China and America donate to AFL.. ………………………………………………...29 h) China donates $3 million military equipment to AFL……………………………….29 i) UN does $1 million water project….………………………………………………...29 j) Tear Fund does 1 year water program……………………………………………….29 k) UNICEF donates to Health Ministry.. ………………………………………………29 l) 150,000 farmers benefit from AfDB support………………………………………...29 m) Japan to build reference lab……..…………………………………………………...29 n) WFP hands over supplies to Liberian Government….………………………………29 o) UNMIL donates anti-explosive devices ………………………………………….....29 p) Lebanese give $100,000 to TC…..…………………………………………………..29 q) World Bank donates to school of blind………………………………………………29 r) Sweden turns over crime lab to LNP……..………………………………………….29 s) GOL and World Bank to rehabilitate Mesurado Fishery…………………………….30 t) WHO donates vehicles and computers to Health Ministry…………………………..30 u) Indian Government donates thermometers….……………………………………….30 v) All Liberian Community Colleges get Science lab from USAID……………………30 w) UNMIL turns over jury database to Temple of Justice………………………………30 x) Justice Ministry receives 19 computers from NGO………………………………….30 y) UNFPA donates pickup………….…………………………………………………..30 z) Ducor Lion Club donates wheel chairs……..………………………………………..30 aa) China medical team donates drugs to JFK Medical Center…….................................30 OTHER bb) World Bank regional head demands more money for post-Ebola Liberia…………..30 cc) 63,000 Liberians to gain access to water – World Bank….………………………….30 10. A Land of Unspeakable Poverty in the midst of all these gifts, grants, loans, donations goodwills and all sorts of financial aids………………………………………………………………………………………31 a) Introductory paragraph (how poverty rages on in everything, including ideas)…….31 b) 18 examples of Liberia’s extreme infrastructure poverty………………………..32-36 c) 3 examples of Liberia’s untold human resource poverty………………………........36 d) 3 examples of Liberia’s untold human resource poverty, combined with infrastructural poverty…………………………………………………………..36 -38 e) 20 examples of Americo-Liberia’s disgracefully poor purchasing power in government……………………………………………………………………...38 - 43

11. The only way Americo-Liberian Authorities, including President Sirleaf and her government have known to solve this country’s walloping economic woes and immeasurable human resource deficit…..……………………………………………..43 a) 11 accounts of how Liberian Government authorities respond to their country’s gigantic economic and other challenges………………………………………….....44 12. Results, Benefits and Achievements thus far of Americo-Liberian Government’s far-sightedness and the country’s general economic management records………….44 a) 13 counts of GOL’s achievements and policy action results…………………….44-46 b) Results and achievements reflected in citizens’ terrible exposure to shocks and all types of vulnerabilities – a land of SOS Calls……………………………….......46 13. The big open secrets behind all this dismal performance and massive state failure of Americo-Liberia in all spheres of life, including economics………………………47 (A) Unspeakable suppression and marginalization of the Natives, as reflected in all GOL policy goals and actions……………………….……………………………………48 a) 24 accounts of today’s continued tribal/ethnic suppression and marginalization in different shades and colors…………………………………………………………49 - 55 (B) Owing to its historical foundation, and as a spillover effect of extremely hating the Huge Native majority who are very absolute majority, Liberia is a country very mischievously cruel to its own citizens, especially ordinary ones………………...55 a) 29 different accounts of how Liberia wickedly treats its own, especially ordinary citizens, like pigs and other animals……………..………………………….55 - 61 (C) As a further spillover effect of this extreme hatred for the Natives, most Americo-Liberian Public officials and opinion leaders just insult ordinary citizens (both directly and indirectly), apart from other cruel treatments……………………...61 a) Introduction to direct insult claim……………….…………………………………...61 b) 5 accounts of public officials’ or opinion leaders’ open insult to ordinary citizens.61-3 c) Introduction to indirect insult argument……………………………………………..63 d) 5 accounts of public officials or opinion leaders indirectly insult ordinary citizens……………………………………………………………………..63 Section conclusion (5 authoritative international proofs that Liberia is not for the Natives………...…………………………………………………………….65 14. How the dangers of chaos and bloodbath as a result of all this AmericoLiberian ethnocentrism now advance closer to our doorsteps again, if concrete actions are taken by us right now………………………………………………………...66 a) Laying the premise for the argument about an imminent threat of danger hanging over this country’s head again……………………………………………………….66 Liberia’s TERRIBLE conflict profile from 1822 to this 2017…………………66 – 67 How it shamefully took us 21 peace accords to temporarily halt the last of our over 18 national bloody crises……………….………………………………………67

3 examples of forewarnings before few of the previous civil crises………………...68 b) Beginning to enlist the current writings on the wall…………………………………69 c) Enlisting the signs of danger, as we speak.………………………………………….70 d) 62 different accounts that spell danger hanging over Americo-Liberia again…70 - 85 15. Our overall conclusion……………..…………………………………………………….86

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This topic (meaning the title of this pamphlet as you see on the cover page), as most of our other revolutionary topics, may look too long and queer, but please be occupied with pulling the sense out of it instead. For we are revolutionaries; we are constructive non-conformists, as one our inspirations, President John F. Kennedy once said, “Conformity is a jailer of freedom and an enemy of growth.” So we are keen on ensuring that every idea comes out because we are all out for lasting solution to come to our ever-suffering people in the end by the grace of God. The points of view or narratives in this revolutionary article are all grounded in the 16 basic questions or arguments presented as follows: 1. Prof. Dr. Amos C. Sawyer has said that the whole idea of Liberia was flawed in conception, design, and implementation (http://www.footsetepsmagazine.com/Teachers’_Guide_Prepared_By_Jo_Sullivan...etc.), yet the good people of this country, especially the Natives, who originally own the land upon which this rogue Liberia was constructed, say No to this assertion by Dr. Sawyer, arguing that this astute instructor is lying, and that instead of sitting around the table to better conceive and redesign a new, productive and fair national arrangement, we prefer to keep struggling with a dirty foundation laid by hardcore criminals and ethnocentric beings such as the Jehudi Ashmuns, the J. J. Roberts and so on, assisted by their American Colonization Society.

2. Dr. James Ciment of New York described Liberia as an example of America’s ugly affairs with slavery, which has produced an illegitimate, yet potently (rude) child named the “Republic of Liberia”, a nation with a TWISTED approach and a [THWARTED] modus operandi, yet the few relatively educated Natives in this place are insisting that Dr. Ciment is lying, and so, we will keep supporting the Americo-Liberians to struggle with their rude American stepchild child called Liberia, with this very twisted understanding of life, and that sometime along the way, this characterization will change by itself. Note: These and many other strong statements, backed by proofs, made by Dr. Ciment about Liberia, can be found in the article, “Liberia: Bloodbath, Stagnation, and Sovereignty: The case, contra and pro Trusteeship: An urgent SOS – Jacob Massaquoi, MBA, and Lawrence A. Z. Zumo, MD, September 25, 2014, at www.theperspective.org, the Wall Street Journal website, and several books and articles written by Dr. Ciment about this funny country.

3. Dr. Hugh Mason Brown of Washington DC wrote in 1896, among many other things, that the Americo-Liberian, and by extension, Liberians in general, are people, who, in every line of life, are mere non-producers, and that almost everything owned by Liberia comes as a gift, either from nature or from other races (Idem). He also says or suggests that Liberians are a people who just memorize the theories and concepts from the higher education of others, without knowing that these theories or concepts are intended to be

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placed into practical use to change their situations etc., yet, the good people of this country, especially our very few enlightened Natives say, Dr. Brown is lying, and that we will keep trying with this ACS agenda until things improve, probably 5 centuries from now.

4. Those who started seeing the sunlight before us say, “The Law is like a knife whose handle belongs to God, but God gives this handle to human governments to hold it and use it on His behalf.” This divine responsibility imputes upon human governments an obligation to be honest, rigid, and impartial in their dealings. Others condense all these obligations into one word, arguing that governments, must be JUST. All reference books, including dictionaries and encyclopedias set similar criteria, or advance similar definitions for what constitutes a just government. For example, the American Heritage Dictionary sets 3 basic criteria for what constitutes a just government, summarized as follows: (a) a government that is honorable, fair, and consistent with what is morally right in its dealings and actions; (b) a government that places the interest of its citizens above all else; and (c) a government that impartially gives to all men what they truly deserve etc. Then, exactly in line with all of the above, the founding fathers of America, in their great Declaration of Independence text said, “We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ‘inalienable’ rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or [completely] abolish it, and to install a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such forms, as to them seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness….”

Now, every reality – both historical and current – establishes, beyond all doubts, the harsh fact that the thing called government in Liberia does NOT match any of the criteria listed above. For example, Conciliation Resources, a British Charity that has worked with Liberia extensively, especially during the 1990s, is categorical that the AmericoLiberians set up their institutions – including their very government – just to gain an upper hand over the indigenous people politically, socially, and economically…; the League of Nations is on record for declaring that the thing called Government of Liberia was designed to systematically foster and encourage a policy of gross intimidation and suppression of the Natives; a renowned international institution, Global Witness, consistently decries how the structure called Government of Liberia systematically breaks its own laws; former Solicitor General of Liberia, Cllr. Wilkins Wright was in the news some time for complaining about how government officials in this country live above the laws; even court officials in this country are always in the press lamenting how the courts themselves violate their own laws or how they do not even have enough laws to cover all of the contemporary issues now, as they come about etc.

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If one were looking for one sentence to paint the real picture of all this, then that one sentence would definitely be, “The structure called Government of Liberia was set up in 1822 by criminals, who forerun this Liberian society, and that this GOL continues to date, to be sustained by the descendants of these criminals, who themselves are obvious criminals, PERIOD!!!

Now, instead of what heroes like Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues were saying in the American Declaration of Independence – as we mentioned above – that when governments don’t match those basic criteria of being just, the only solution is to alter or abolish [completely] those forms of government, the good people of this country, especially the few enlightened Natives are still understanding this beautiful argument or injunction to mean going to the polls regularly to cast ballot in Americo-Liberian organized elections to sustain this same criminal form of government established here in 1822, with a twisted approach to life, and a thwarted modus operandi.

5. Young and enterprising Journalist Julius Jeh of Farbric FM in Monrovia made this quite witty aphorism during one of his programs, which goes like this: “If you establish that your car has a major problem while moving, you can’t keep going and expect to fix that car’s problems on the move.” Whether he was explicitly referring to Liberia or not, what Mr. Jeh was insinuating here is that as we all have established that this car, Liberia, has very major problems – in this case, problems within the engine of this moving vehicle, meaning problems within the very foundational principles of this country etc., we have got to think out a way to pause movement, and fix these problems. But our good people of this country, especially our few open-minded Natives, are telling Julius Jeh “No, you’ve got it wrong boy.” We will not stop to look at this engine problem better; we will keep moving ahead with this STUPID structure called Liberia, and its rotten engine, called government, full of so much deficiencies, and somewhere along the way, things will fix themselves out.

6. President Chi Jing Ping of China says, “To forget History is a betrayal [of the pains and sacrifices of those who lived before us], and to deny past crimes is to [keep] repeating them.” But the good people of Liberia, backed by the few one-eye Natives say, this astute Chinese President is lying, and that we don’t give a heck for what happened to our forefathers in the past, beginning with how their land was arm robbed from them by US Naval Lieutenant Robert F. Stockton of the USS Alligator Schooner and his American Colonization Society partners in crime in 1821 just to dump their Black societal outcasts and criminals; to how over 500,000 of our people were killed in cold blood for AmericoLiberian power in the 1990s and 2000s; to all of the countless acts of injustice that our people continue to suffer at the hands of the Americo-Liberian Courts and their other institutions, but we will continue to support the Americo-Liberians to go ahead with their structure called GOL; and in fact, we are coming to go to polls again in 2017 to sustain this status quo.

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7. The great German Philosopher, Scientist, Economist and Politician Karl Marx argued with emphasis that, it is the mode of economic production that we choose, as a people, or, it is the kind of economic orientation that we adopt, that forms the basis for the rest of our other social phenomena, including politics, legal system, morality, social relations etc. One American President stressed that there is NO secret about economic prosperity other than being industrious or being entrepreneurial, and always cutting down your cost.

President Obama, addressing the Mandela-Washington Forum in July 2014 said, “I think everybody recognizes that if you want sustained development, sustained opportunity, and sustained self-determination, then the key is to own what is produced, and to be able to create jobs and opportunities organically (i.e. with everybody working together for common goals), and indigenously (i.e. with plans, actions, and most, if not all resources being derived from within etc.), and to be able to meet the world on equal terms…”

Kenyan President Nhuru Kenyatta, addressing the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa in 2015 warned fellow African leaders against the culture of dependency upon aid and financial packages, adding that this was NEVER any basis for economic prosperity.

American multimillionaire businessman and car manufacturer Henry Ford once sounded a warning that capital punishment (i.e. killing people, or inflicting serious bodily harm on people for doing wrong, instead of rehabilitating them) is bad for fighting crime, just as charity (i.e. giving out grants, gifts etc.) is very BAD for fighting poverty, etc. and etc.

But the good people of this country, especially our very few opened-eye Natives that we depend on are saying No to all these statements and warnings, and claiming instead that what America and her Americo-Liberian imposed upon us here in 1822 called statehood, which the British referred to as a mere “American Philanthropic Experiment” is good for our lives, once 0.0001% of the citizens enjoying it, and we should therefore continue with it, as the World Bank, EU, the African Development Bank, the Chinese Government, the Japanese Government etc. will continue to be our loving partners, building everything in our country from the ground up etc.

8. President Obama, in one of his deliberations said, “Regardless of the resources a country possesses, regardless of how talented the people are etc., if you do not have a basic system of rule of law; of respect for civil liberties and human rights; ….if you do not respect basic freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly; if there are not systems in place in which everybody is equal under the law, so that there is not one set of laws for the well-connected, and one set of rules for the ordinary people; if you do not have an economic system that is transparent and accountable enough…….that corruption is rooted out of etc…., then you [will not] succeed as a country...” But the good people of this country, including those very few educationally opportune Natives, have sided with the Americo-Liberians to condemn all of these statements by President Obama, with an implicit argument from Liberians, that we are satisfied with our system, we will maintain and sustain it, and we will only be changing caretakers through elections, like placing new wines into old bottles.

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9. Although Atty. Koffi Woods has categorically blamed all of this country’s huge mess on the tragic return of the so-called freed slaves from America (Sky FM. April 28, 2014), and Pastor Solomon Juah said in clear terms that criminals were the ones who built this failed country (Sky FM. October 20, 2014); although renowned American Historian Dr. James Ciment, in his recent book, “Another America: The story of Liberia and the former slaves that rule it”, agree that Americo-Liberians are pure rogues (even though he used the word some) etc.; the good Native people of this country are still willing for these lazy and roguish people’s names to remain ringing in the public arena of this country, ruling over our destiny forever, probably because these criminal American Black returnees were made by God better than us. Moreover, even though the astute Liberian Truth & Reconciliation Commission unanimously and pointblank BLAMES the Americo-Liberians’ choice of statehood philosophy and creed – from the very foundation of the country – for all of the country’s mess, and lays emphasis on Liberia’s enduring crises of identity and legitimacy, in addition to squarely declaring that the United States established this country as a dumping ground etc. (Daily Observer Newspaper, December 28, 2009), the huge group of 16 indigenous Ethnic Africans in this place are telling the ten level-headed members of the TRC (in persons of Cllr. Jerome Verdier, head, Dede Dolopei, vice head, Oumu Syllah, Bishop Arthur Kulah, Sheik Kafumba Konneh, Cllr. Pearl Brown, Gerald Coleman, John Steward, Massa Washington, and Henrietta Bonsu) that they are downright liars, and that they should go to hell with their findings, and that we will continue with our Americo-Liberian National structure unaltered; and, to prove this, instead of sitting around the table to redesign a better national structure with a better foundation, we will go to the polls again next year to sustain the current country with its NASTY foundation once it was established by our superiors, Americo-Liberians and their backer, the great United States. In fact, America NEVER makes any mistakes; they never lie, because they are super human beings.

10. Though the current BLOODY 1983-1986 Constitution – whether we amend it, review it, revise it, or not – has been established or proven to have no respect for our people; as it serves as a recipe for chaos; it promotes impunity and it encourages the perversion of the law; it promotes selfishness; it respects certain of its articles over the others, and postpones the implementation of some its articles for time indefinite; it was used as a tool to kill and re-kill almost 1 million of our citizens through some senseless war, called Civil War, and through the ever-corrupt Americo-Liberian Supreme Court; it was used as a tool to send more than 1 million of our people into exile, making them to suffer and face humiliating situations outside home; it was used to forever shield those who gruesomely killed productive President William Tolbert and scores of his officials in broad day light; it has been used to deny our people reparations after criminals took advantage of its loopholes to set our people’s lives far back for scores and decades; it has been used to perpetuate the sufferings of our people by maintaining and sustaining a criminal gang called government, and to keep bringing criminals to power to inflict more

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harms on our people; even though former UN SRSG Madam Karin Langrin quotes Secretary General Ban Kii Moon as explicitly disclosing that many of Liberia’s underlying tensions are perpetuated by provisions within the country’s constitution; even though this constitution sits there and sees the Ureys, the McClains, the Bernards, the Johnsons, the Williams, the Chinoweths, the Tubmans etc. committing heinous crimes in this country in broad day light and going scot-free, but quickly runs behind the Wogbehs, the Kamaras, the Flomos, the Jlues, the Broplehs etc. and locks them up for decades, scores, centuries or even for life under harsh and deadly conditions, yet and still the good Native Peoples of this country say Bravo! to this constitution, and that we agree with all this treatment, and are even willing to stand on line again in 2017 to further exacerbate this mess because once it comes from Americo-Liberians with America’s backing, ours is nothing, but to obey, obey, and obey. For these are creatures made in a more special creatures than us.

11. America’s current first lady, Mrs. Michelle Obama some time ago said, “No country can EVER flourish if it stifles the potentials of its own people [because by] doing so, that country deprives itself of the valuable contributions that would have come from these same citizens whose potentials it has stifled.” But Liberia vehemently rejects Mrs. Obama’s claims here, and says instead, that it will stifle the potentials and hidden capabilities of its huge indigenous majority, just to keep the Americo-Liberian breed superior over the Natives forever. Liberia says it will do this without fear, through different forms of governmental policies, including denying the vast indigenous populations quality education, good roads, good healthcare facilities, access to good food etc., so that potential doctors, footballers, musicians, farmers, lawyers etc. from among the Native population can die with their dreams unaccomplished or under-accomplished.

First of all, Liberia argues that the money or other contributions we could have gotten from these Native “Savages” if they were well educated and developed, can alternatively be gotten instead from our partners in the international community, including the likes of the USAID, World Bank, EU etc.

12. “For 168 years, Liberia’s democracy is in all practical terms a democracy that is run by a presidency that lacks moral clarity, a bribe taking Legislature, and a Judiciary that is for the highest bidder. I cannot in good conscience tell the professionals in the Press Union of Liberia to contribute to such a democracy. Rather, the Liberian media should take a broad national interest in helping dismantle this Liberian democracy” (John S. Morlu, II’s Address to the Press Union of Liberia, November 28, 2015 @http://frontpageafricaonline.com). Although Mr. Morlu makes this kind of definite pronouncement or throws out this kind of strong patriotic injunction, the good people of this country are telling him no, and that instead, they will go the polls again in 2017 to sustain this democracy.

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13. While President Obama, speaking at last year’s African Union Summit in Addis Ababa says that democracy is not just for holding elections, [and that by thinking so], then we may just have it in name, and not in substance, but [that countries] MUST first fight to fully unleash the potentials of their people; adding that countries that do best [in whatever their forms of government are], are those that aggressively invest in the education of their people, and those that vigorously train and empower entrepreneurs and innovators etc., the good people of this country, 99.5% of which are the indigenous people and the original owners of this land say No, Mr. Obama, we don’t agree with you that a true democracy or a true art of governance places first emphasis on the development of each individual citizen, but we instead believe in the Americo-Liberians’ definition of democracy which calls for just criminally running some fake process called elections aimed at utilizing the painful tyranny of a huge ignorant population regularly, and taking gross advantage of them under the canopy of government etc., and we are ready again in 2017 to sustain this status quo 14. Although the world’s greatest man of our times has said that every man, and by extension every nation, every set of people etc. deserves the right to control their own fate alone, and that when we – whether as individuals or countries – succumb to people who believe that they are superior to us, then we will be losers, and they too will be losers [in the end], the good people of this land, especially the huge mass of ‘country’ people in this place vehemently disagree with President Obama, and instead say that we agree with the Americo-Liberians that we, the Natives, are mere ‘savages’ as claimed by these predominantly criminal Blacks from the free world, and as such, we are very inferior to them, and moreover that all of us combined – i.e. both Natives and AmericoLiberians, forming the so-called state of Liberia – are very inferior to America and her Wall Street interests, and that this condition or perception will remain so forever.

15. People keep saying ‘country boys’ or the Natives of this land are in government; in fact, they are piled up in the Legislature; they head the Judiciary, and arguments of this kind etc., and so; they are responsible for the mess that we find in this country today. We say a big No, that this argument is totally wrong. No, No. The truth of the matter is that America and her Americo-Liberians setup a faulty and cursed foundation that keeps going the same foolish way, no matter who gets on board, unless this dirty, barren foundation is undone and redone, FULL STOP!!! The indigenous of this place are too intelligent and industrious to have set up, or to have been in any way instrumental, in the setup of this kind of barren structure called the Government of Liberia. They are just being pushed against their own will to form part of this structure just for survival, something that our Plain Truth Revolution is totally against, and thus we insist and demand that it MUST come to an end now by the grace of God. So, the fact of the matter is that while the indigenous people are not totally freed to some extent of the blame for the mess that we find here today called national leadership owing to our consent to form part of it later, it’s just fair to clarify that indigenous elements in the Americo-Liberian

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structure called Government at all levels are just mere contractors hired with their own resources to work against their own people. THIS IS TRULY what the founding fathers of America predicted in the early 1800s when they said Liberia would be a land of aggravated MISCHIEF as they dumped their Black Criminals on our soil just to get them off America’s back. This is according to the Nile’s Weekly Register’s April 12, 1817 edition. Some of the Natives may be conscious of this embarrassing fact that they are mere contractors working against their own people, but many are very unaware and unconscious about this damaging fact, and can’t therefore be blamed to some extent, except now that it is beginning to be made clear to them and the whole world.

16. The Bible and the Quran are quite categorical that God is NEVER mocked, and that whatever a man, a nation etc. sows, that same thing he shall reap. In social terms for example, President Kennedy once said, a country wherein few people decide to deny the vast majority quality education and equal economic opportunities, can NEVER see peace. These two Books of God’s Knowledge and Wisdom go further to say that any structure whose foundation is not well laid can never flourish (for example, Luke 6: 46 – 49; Surat 14:25 etc.). But Americo-Liberia rejects all of these with two main arguments here, as follows: (a) ‘These two Books are lying’, or (b) Even if they are talking some truth, then it’s just quite difficult, if not impossible, to relay a whole nation’s foundation.

So let’s maintain the old ACS and Jehudi Ashmun, Thomas Buchanan, J. J. Roberts etc. foundation, and be managing with it. Things will improve later with more elections, or, God Himself will send some battalion of angels from Heaven to come and help us lay a new national foundation on better, productive principles for us – God forbid, He never works this way, etc.

Before we go any further, we like to make it clear here that while we are squarely discussing issues rather than personalities, it must also be made known that issues are caused or championed by personalities, and are attached to personalities, so we can’t just talk issues without mentioning the personalities to whom they are attached. This fact was established by several scholars and philosophers including Karl Marx himself, to whom the vision bearers of this revolution owe a whole lot.

Having said that, we now come to the main person that this revolution considers the conclusion of the Americo-Liberian dominance chapter or hegemony in our country, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and the work of her government, including all of the wonderful praises that continue to be showered upon her, and her Americo-Liberians, as they steer the ship of national affairs. This self-proclaimed Iron Lady, the cream of the crop of AmericoLiberia, the best and most educated leader to date in this country’s history, among her educational and other professional achievements earned so far include: an undergraduate degree from the Madison Business College in Colorado, and a graduate degree in administering the public space from John F. Kennedy School of Government at the most prestigious Harvard University. Accolades (awards, prizes, honorary degrees, and different

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recognitions) get showered upon this woman on weekly and monthly bases from every corner of the world. Just a few of her accolades include: the FAO CERES Medal (2008, www.conservation.org/conferences/Africa); the Crisis Group Fred Cunning Award for the Prevention of Deadly Crises (2008, “ ); the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007, “ ); the Friend of the Media Award (2010, “ ); Honorary degrees from 14 different universities in the United States (“); the Peace and Environment Africa Award (2013, www.emansion.gov.lr); the Nobel Peace Prize (October, 2011) etc.

Government officials, whether out of insincerity and dishonesty as usual, just to make ends meet, keep boasting of their president and government at different programs and occasions, to the point that the Press Union Vice President, Mr. Jallah Grayfield once said, “they are like Jacks and Roses stuck to a sinking Titanic, even up to the point of drowning.” Here are some examples: 1. Isaac Jackson, New Dawn, January 18, 2016: Mr. Jackson lavishes praises on his boss and the current Americo-Liberian Government as follows: (a) The American President recognizes that Ellen inherited a dysfunctional system, and she has improved it; (b) The issue of free speech in Liberia was a luxury before this government, but today, it has become a necessity or, it is now commonplace; (c) Independence among the three branches of government was non-existent, today for example, we have a very robust and independent Legislature; (d) if you want to describe today’s government in one word, then that word is “Tolerance.”; (e) Today, we have 56 newspapers, 55 community radio stations, 10 TV stations etc.; (f) The Judiciary is now independent; (g) Before Ellen’s time for example, someone debating an issue on the floor against the government in the Legislature could be booted out of the institution, it is not so today; (h) For the first time in living memory, all opposition party leaders are living here, and anyone can call on a talk show and tell the President anything; (i) The American people have their best standards for fighting corruption, and we have adequately abided by these standards, that’s why we just won the MCC $256 million the last time, so in terms of fighting corruption, we again are the best; (j) this government has paved roads the most than any other government in the history of this country; and in the area of electricity, we have provided up to 22 MW etc.

2. Presidential Spokesperson, Jerolinmek Piah boasts of his government so much on a daily basis, especially with reference to how they have the ability to win foreign monies in development aid. He spoke to Farbric FM once saying, “…Of the over 50 African heads of state that gathered in New Dehli (referring to the 2015 India-Africa Submit), not over 5 of them ever had the opportunity to meet Prime Minister Mordi, but Ellen did, because she’s considered one of the greatest and most productive of the leaders on the continent, and as such, is always recognized in a special way…” (Farbric FM New Dawn, November 10, 2015)

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3. President Obama sometime ago lavished praises on Ellen too, saying among others, how she took office under the most difficult of circumstances….. , and how she has moved fast to consolidate democracy, improve governance, and to fight corruption. (ELBC, March 2, 2015). He then promised to help support her, ranging from ensuring that her government receives some MCC grant and that the American Peace Corps return to Liberia.

4. The world believes in Ellen so much that every now and then she’s being called upon to come and share thoughts with them; for example: (a) President Sirleaf, whose country has miserably failed to substantially implement one count of the 8-count Millennium Development Goals, was called upon by world leaders to form part of the team to design the world’s next batch of developmental agenda, the much more ambitious 17-count Sustainable Development Goals (www.emansion.gov.lr.. September 2015 etc.) (b) Ellen was called to attend the Group of Seven Industrialized Nations’ 41 st Session in Berlin, Germany, to share her thoughts and advise the world about how to fight poverty. At that occasion for instance, she said, “until the issue of poverty is resolved, the other illegal activities like money laundering, human trafficking etc. will be too difficult to combat….” (ELBC, June 10, 2015) 5. Professor David Elwood and ‘Iris’ Bonnet of the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the university presented a portrait of the Americo-Liberian Queen, a proud graduate of their institution, doing well in leadership in Africa, and turning Liberia into a paradise, to President Sirleaf (ELBC, July 2014) 6. The prestigious Fortune Magazine in May 2015 rated Ellen at 16 th among its 50 greatest world leaders.

7. President George W. Bush, in his days, awarded Ellen the Presidential Medal of Freedom, describing her as a person “having the tough-mind of a natural born executive, and the gentle instincts of a mother.” (Bush ends tour to Africa with a visit to Liberia”, The New York Times: February 21, 2008) 8. Deputy Speaker Hans Bashu, speaking to the press on the embarrassment subsisting at the Capitol concerning Speaker Tyler’s alleged persistent involvement with criminal deals, for which his colleagues now want him out says, “this is the most robust, productive, proactive, and best Legislature ever in this [country’s 194 year] history (ELBC, June 9, 2016) 9. Addressing a session at a meeting organized for the Least Developed Countries in early June in Israel, President Sirleaf boasted of how Liberia is progressing so tremendously in the area of investment, and how her government has performed the best so far, including for example, how her government has paved or rehabilitated around 690 kilometers of roads etc., making it the most progressive than any other government in Liberia’s [194 year] history (ELBC, June 9, 2016) etc. and etc.

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With some of these key points having been elaborated, let’s now flip to the main workings of Ellen and the government she inherited from her Americo-Liberian predecessors. We will start with Economics and throw more focus on this art and science since it constitutes a whole lot about what happens in the management and governance of a country. Moreover, Economics is a key aspect of business, the main thing around which almost all of life’s activities are involved. And by way of information, this AmericoLiberian Iron Lady attended several Business Colleges in the United States, including Harvard University, as we mentioned earlier, and she served the highest role or position of an economist in this world, which is the World Bank Economist position reportedly.

Here are few accounts of how Ellen manages her country’s economy and its entire governance after earning all these great achievements.

According to some local radio report in 2013, all of the government offices, institutions and state-owned business enterprises – that both collect monies or raise funds, and those that do regular business for government – when combined are up to 113, and in this number, everyone should know by now that state-owned business enterprises (like the NPA, the LPRC, the RIA, the Maritime Authority etc.) are strictly profit-making institutions that are supposed to follow every business practice for such things as cutting costs and generating huge revenues just like Facebook, Microsoft or Lone Star Cell or Cellcom etc. is doing. In a related argument, Liberia is about the size of the states of Tennessee or Ohio in the United States, or the size of Northern Ireland in Europe. We are interested in these comparisons on the bases of age, size and opportunities, that’s why we don’t want to bring in Ivory Coast or Ghana or Guinea. For example, Tennessee was admitted into Statehood in July of 1796, less than 30 years before Liberia’s establishment; Ohio, just about the same size as Liberia and Tennessee, became a state in February of 1803, less than 20 years before Liberia’s establishment, while Ireland obtained nationhood status in January of 1919, with Mama Americo-Liberia of course, having been established in 1822, and gaining so-called independence in 1847. But while Tennessee, way back in 2011, had an annual tax collection, excluding other sources of revenue, of Forty-Five Billion, One Hundred Eighty Nine Million, Six Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars (US$45,189,610,000), and Ohio, One Hundred Twelve Billion, Sixty-Nine Million, Four Hundred Seven Thousand (US$112,069,407,000) – all, according to the US Census Bureau, January 1, 2011, Americo-Liberia’s part of National taxing authority, the Liberia Revenue Authority was vowing that it would collect a total tax amount of US$7 million for fiscal year 2015/2016, a fiscal year in which the country’s disgraceful total budget of US$622 million was heavily subsidized by different foreign sources, including the European Union, which alone, injected $279 million, or around 45% of this national forecasted budget, but sadly again, the country still endured unspecified amounts of budget shortfalls, as former Lofa County Senator Sumo Kupee had already predicted a shortfall of about US$150 million, all, according to local media reports. Moreover, while 97 year old Ireland (in terms of independence), just about half the size of 169 year-old Liberia, had a GDP, Purchasing

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Power Parity, of US$235.850 billion in 2015, criminal Americo-Liberia still fakes GDP/PPP figure of around US$1.5 billion, less than 12% of the GDP of baby, 5-year-old, troublestricken South Sudan etc.

Liberia is also blessed with numerous precious resources. Some of them include: over 10, million acres of agricultural land; about 9 million acres of thick rain forests which produce logs, with the friendliest agricultural climate in the world; about 2.8 billion long tons of proven iron ore deposits, most of which have now been depleted by marauding settler economic vampires calling themselves national leaders etc.; vast quantities of diamond, gold and manganese; and huge quantity of proven natural oil deposits, of which the current puppet government has already mortgaged more than 10 key blocks, mainly to their American partners for peanuts as it has always been the case here, among other disgusting realities.

So instead of smartly taking care of our vast natural resources, while at the same time properly managing these 113 both fund raising and ordinary profit-making business institutions combined, and inculcating a culture of massive revenue generation under strong internal control mechanisms and transparent business practices etc., the only thing that the Liberian Government has known since 1822, has been to fly left, right and center, foolishly begging for grants, loans, goodwill, criminal partnerships, criminal stake holdings among others, and crying on foreign capitalists to come and invest in the country, even if it means killing 100,000 citizens indirectly in both current and future generations, just to see these illicit foreign direct investment deals go through. As a result, you must be a good case maker for these kinds of financing arrangements before gaining prominence in the Liberian Governance arena.

As a consequence of the Liberia’s thwarted idea of what constitutes economics; what constitutes creating jobs for the country, as a leader; what it means to grow your economy as a government etc., here is what the Ellen-led government, like almost all other AmericoLiberian Governments before her, believe, that officials of government were elected to do, in addition to the criminal waste and pillaging of state resources, compounded by the citizens’ lack of independence to think for themselves, develop themselves, and act in their own self-interests autonomously. Liberia, after 194 years of being around as a political entity, remains a land of horrible destitution, unimaginable deprivation, and scorching poverty – both in ideas and materials – from the very president’s office in this country to the least of janitors in the least of government offices. For we want to restrict ourselves to government here.

THE MAIN REASONS FOR WHICH FOLKS ARE ELECTED HERE, AND LEADERS’ PERCEPTION ABOUT THE ONLY WAY TO CREATE JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY, AND TO BOOST THEIR LIBERIAN ECONOMY ETC., ARE AS FOLLOWS:

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First off, every policy move, or every governmental action and decision in AmericoLiberia is dictated by some foreign force or influence – nothing indigenous or nothing endogenous. Please read some of these very disgraceful facts below: 1. When Nigeria decided to grant Charles Taylor asylum in 2003 to enhance the Liberian Peace process, there were no provisions for him to be extradited in the future, as he himself decided to take several things into consideration and drop his right to fight to the end, for the sake of peace. Nigeria stuck to its vow that it will never turn Taylor over to the Hague, nor to any authority except upon the formal request of a democratically elected Liberian president or government. But when Harvard-trained World Bank Economist Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took power in 2006, just within less than two months of her inauguration, in betrayal of Taylor, and in breach of a key element strengthening the country’s peace, she did a formal request to the Nigerian Government for Taylor’s extradition. After denying this action for a while as usual, Mrs. Sirleaf finally admitted this iniquity; and, responding to a suggestive concern about why so soon with the issue of turning her fellow compatriot and rebel-mate over to an already American backed kangaroo justice process against Taylor], Ellen replied, “[We acted out of] international pressure, ‘controlling our efforts to…. raise the resources we need for our development ….” (Nicolas Cook, Analyst in African Affairs: Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division, US Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress) 2. From unimpeachable sources, including Unity Party stalwarts such as George Kailando (talking to Farbric FM sometime in 2015 or thereabouts, and Toga McCintosh (talking to Farbric FM on April 4, 2016) etc., all of Liberia’s so-called reform agendas, including its much talked-about Agenda for Transformation, Vision 2030 etc.; the setup of all of its integrity institutions, including the so-called Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, their General Auditing Commission, the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the Internal Audit Agency and others were all done to urgently meet up with criteria imposed on the country by international donors and lending agencies so that Liberia first off gets relieved of its previous useless debt burden, and then for the country to begin swimming into more grants, loans and other financial packages for her so-called development, but none of these are an independent effort to add value and sanity or sanctity to governance. It has never been so before in the 194 round year history of this country except to a considerable extent under William Tolbert, and to a little extent during the latter days of Samuel Doe. 3. Electricity is a very key and integral part of 21 st century life. President Sirleaf, during her elections campaign, promised that she will restore electricity (the previously existing substandard grade) at least to the whole of Monrovia during the first 6 months of her administration, before tackling the rest of the country (Public Agenda Newspaper etc.).

But 10 years into her presidency – i.e. up to 2015 – not a single street in Monrovia had been electrified. Because the government was in search of some grant from the US Government, the American Authorities compelled the Americo-Liberian Government to craft some electricity bill reflecting their intention for the sector (Harry Greaves, ELBC).

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It was this time that the issue of reforming the Liberia Electricity Corporation became serious in Americo-Liberia to the point that Ellen requested the Legislature to extend its sitting by additional 3 weeks to be able to ratify the LEC reform Bill and the US-based Millennium Challenge Corporation’s iniquitous grant deal (ELBC, September 24, 2015) 4. From research done by our Plain Truth Revolution, the Liberian Government hired the services of a Washington DC-based commercial diplomacy firm, KRL International, to which it has secretly been dishing out more than US$470 million of our country’s resources over a couple of years, and the job that this company does for the GOL is to paint every ugly picture within this country positively to the international world, by which means, loans and grants will pour in unhindered. In fact, one source narrates that this firm has been fighting behind the scenes for the Government of Liberia, so that nothing called recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are EVER implemented here, so that the blood of our over half a million people that were gruesomely killed here in senseless wars mainly intended to bring Americo-Liberians back to power etc. finally go in vain.

5. Here is how Ellen addresses the press after Liberia’s acceptance within the World Trade Organization in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2015. Asked about the benefit of such accession, she joyously replied, “they will give us some technical assistance; they will support us in our trading. Through them, America and Japan have all agreed to help us etc.” Then asked about her trip to Kenya generally, apart from her country’s WTO accession success story, Ellen says, “…Kenya will provide us some technical assistance, they are a strong country in Agriculture and IT…” (ELBC, December 18, 2015) Creating Jobs and Boosting Economy (the Americo-Liberian Approach) 6. Liberia believes in begging so much that, just to be able to discuss so-called partnership issues – which in reality will boil down to begging for some assistance while criminally offering something under the cover of darkness in return, the Liberian President at times writes or makes requests in other forms to foreign leaders to grant her permission to go visit them (Jerolinmek Matthew Piah and Dehpue Zuo, Farbric New Dawn, November 10, 2015) 7. Jerolinmek M. Piah raps on Liberia’s engagement with China on their trip to this East Asian Country as follows: “…Most of the assistance projects China should have done here have been pendin for a while now, so we thought to remind President Chi about this, and he promised to have these projects fast-tracked because he acknowledges that they too will benefit from an early harvest of these projects [although no one knows what these benefits truly are], and some of these works are: (a) the construction of our ministerial complex, (b) the extension of our capitol building, and (c) the rehabilitation of the SKD Sports complex.

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Mr. Piah continued, “But we also made additional requests to the Chinese President, which he considered, including: (d) their assistance to enable us add value to our iron ore, and (e) their indulgence to help us construct an airport city at the RIA. At the conclusion of the talks, 3 formal agreements were signed between Liberia and China, as follows: (1) a Marine Agreement, for the Chinese to help enhance our fishery industry and other marine activities, (2) an Agricultural Production and Food Security Agreement, for China to help Liberia in the area of Agriculture, and (3) a Visa free waiver agreement.

Then finally, a technical cooperation deal of $60 million for the early harvest of these projects was signed. (Farbric F.M. New Dawn, November 10, 2015) 8. Of an insignificant 38 MW (megawatts) of dirty electricity – to be generated through Heavy Fuel Oil machine – that the government has been promising its people for years now, Americo-Liberian Government authorities say, 10 MW will be financed by the World Bank, 10 by the Japanese Government, then before the Liberian Government herself takes care of the rest, [which when proper investigation is done, it will be established that they will use some other donor money from somewhere to do] (Jerolinmek Piah and Elkina Westley, Farbric FM New Dawn, December 22, 2015) 9. “While attending the World Women’s Forum in Tokyo, Ellen managed to meet with Prime Minister Abe on the sidelines to remind and encourage him about some of Japan’s promises and commitments to helping Liberia, and she also made new requests to him.

Prime Minister Abe then reassured Ellen that his country will still take care of the HFO machine that will generate 30 MW of electricity to Monrovia through LEC (the Liberia Electricity Corporation). In addition, he promised that Japan will still do the Somalia Drive Road. Then Ellen asked him to talk to his government to revamp the A. M. Dogliotti College of Medicine, and to help train more doctors. Moreover, Ellen made an appeal for Japan to consider doing the Somalia Drive Road to two lanes instead of the existing one lane, and Prime Minister Abe said he would look into this appeal (Local Radio, 2015) 10. Ellen has left for Berlin, Germany, where she will also be making case for support from this sisterly Republic for the improvement of Liberia’s health sector – she will be telling her counterpart Angela Merkel that she wants Liberia to have a robust health sector (ELBC, September 16, 2015)

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11. Jerolinmek Piah boasts of his boss as being a global leader; says, during Ellen’s recent meeting with world leaders, she gave them some excuse about how Ebola impeded our progress, and then she presented to them a new recovery plan [which falls under the Marshall Plan for worst-hit Ebola countries] (ELBC, September 28, 2015) 12. A 5-man GOL delegation headed by VP Boakai is in South Africa to seek more help for Liberia’s Agenda for Transformation. (ELBC, April 6, 2016) 13. Ellen disclosed in November 2015 that during her visits to China and India for help, the both countries reaffirmed their commitments to Liberia’s development. According to her, the visit was to help her learn from these people how they passed through their times of poverty [especially with their exceptionally huge human populations and land masses etc.] two decades or so ago, to now be vying for world ‘superpowership’. She said one response that she got from both countries that will resonate with her forever was, quoting the two countries, “Yes, we are willing to help you, but we only want to help people who want to help themselves” – (ELBC, November 9, 2015) 14. At the end of the 2015 China-Africa Forum in South Africa, China announced a boost in its development fund to Africa from US$8 to $60 billion. In reaction to this news, Ellen joyously celebrated in an ELBC interview with her, and she said, “We can now get some financing to build our roads…” “….We also took some time to talk to Chinese companies to come and invest in our country. What China has done [today] is a win-win situation for them and Africa” (ELBC, December 7, 2015) 15. Jerolinmek Piah and ‘Elkina Westley both talk to Farbric FM New Dawn about their government’s plan to massively create jobs in the Agriculture Sector as follows: “……

We all have agreed that Agriculture is the single biggest place to provide employment for our people because we are aware that iron ore and other extractable resources can get depleted. So to use Kenya’s success story in the Agriculture sector, our two countries have agreed to set up a joint commission……[In fact], when we were in China, we were discussing Agriculture; when we were in India the last time, we were discussing Agriculture; and recently when we were in Kenya, we were discussing Agriculture etc.

(Farbric FM New Dawn, December 22, 2015) 16. Between February and March 2015, Ellen headed a high power government delegation to 3 of the world’s 7 continents – Asia, Europe and North America – on what the government referred to as “An Appreciation and Advocacy Trip”. The appreciation aspect was to thank nations for how they helped in fighting Ebola for Liberia, and the Advocacy piece was to present a new “Marshall Plan” to the international community to help build Liberia after Ebola. This huge government delegation comprising over 25 members, headed by the President herself, for 3 weeks shuttled among and between the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, Belgium etc. appreciating and advocating. At her “Mama Welcome Back Home Ceremony” held at the Effort Baptist Church in Monrovia on March 13, 2015, Ellen explained how she was playing her part to build the country by taking these long trips across the world to build Liberia’s case for

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development. She then admonished citizens as follows: “…..Do your part, whatever that part is, to move the country forward, because Liberia now has a big window of opportunities, a window which will not remain open forever, as other global happenings will take place that will shift the world’s attention from our country...” (ELBC, March 14, 2015) 17. When suggestively quizzed by UNMIL Radio’s Torwon Sullohnteh about why the Liberian Government will not learn to generate her own revenue with the vast resources and opportunities she has, but will keep flying right, left and center, begging for assistance, Ellen too suggested three reasons why, which include: (a) Liberia [only] depends on money from the two crude commodities of iron ore and rubber, and unfortunately these two commodities’ prices have dropped on the world market; (b) Liberia’s budget is too small for the kind of capital projects we have to undertake, and to add insult to injury, 80% of this small budget goes to paying people [called civil servants] who are just playing cards behind their desks in government offices; and (c) Too much of the already little the country generates or receives as revenue leave the country and go to America [in remittances] etc. (UNMIL Radio, Talk with the president, December 1, 2015) 18. Ellen speaking to the press upon her arrival at the Roberts International Airport after almost 1 month away on a 3-nation tour, a leg of which took her Israel, says, Liberia will benefit from these trips particularly in the areas of Agriculture and security, as UNMIL draws down, because Israel has expertise in these areas (ELBC, June 12, 2016) 19. From the signing ground of the MCC grant in Washington or the US, a Liberian Government dispatch read, “Under the compact, the MCC will fund the rehabilitation of the Mount Coffee Hydro Plant, develop a training center for electricians, create an independent energy sector regulator, and create a nationwide road maintenance framework etc. (http://liberiannewsagency.org/..)

20. Senator Steve Zargo announces that two European nations – Germany and France – have committed to providing finances for his proposed national security dialogue for Liberia (ELBC, July 19, 2016) 21. Government, World Bank, to launch school feeding pilot (The News Newspaper, June 16, 2016) Liberian government officials, including the President, also extend this perception of theirs at the receipt of foreign diplomats. Here are a few proofs: 22. At the receipt of credentials for the new ambassadors of Switzerland, Turkey, Russia, and Colombia at her displaced office in Monrovia in March 2015, President Sirleaf went straightway into encouraging the new diplomats to start exploring areas in which they could invest to exploit some of Liberia’s vast natural resources. In her direct words, “We are a country endowed with so many natural resources.” (ELBC, March 16, 2015)

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23. In October 2015, Sweden and Egypt replaced their ambassadors here. At the receipt of credentials for the two new diplomats, Ellen announced to them how glad she would be were they both to encourage investors from their countries to start flocking into Liberia to exploit the country’s vast natural resources (ELBC, October 20, 2015) 24. Ellen, meeting with a visiting Chinese high power delegation headed by that country’s Minister of Health and Family Planning, Madam Choo Lee, begged the Chinese to please provide training for Liberian healthcare workers. She also begged the Chinese military to help provide training to Liberia’s 2,000 strong army, established and sustained thus far with foreign dollars etc. (ELBC, November 25, 2014) 25. Ellen announced that she was in vigorous search of foreign aid to help empower rural women farmers and marketers (ELBC, June 12, 2015) Apart from these regular trips on building the economy, which the President embarks on almost every week, on the home front, and during other domestic or even foreign engagements, government officials build their economy by urging people theoretically all day, to either invest, or do some other things to improve Americo-Liberia’s economy. Here are some press clippings and newspaper headlines about this reality: 26. Ellen meets with Arcellor Mittal and Firestone [to plead with them to keep Liberians on their payroll] – (Farbric FM News, February 8, 2016) 27. VP Boakai pleads with US Entrepreneurs to come and build the capacity of Liberian entrepreneurs (ELBC, September 17, 2015) 28. Ellen says only Western investors will help transform Africa, including Liberia (ELBC, September 25, 2015) 29. Foreign Minister ‘Manjohn’ Kamara calls on South Africa to come and invest in Liberia’s rich soil (ELBC, April 29, 2016) 30. Government has written the European Union to start with the rehabilitation of the RIA terminal, so says Information Minister, Eugene Nagbe (ELBC, May 17, 2016) 31. At the launch of a mini foreign plastic materials’ manufacturing plant on the Jamaica Road in Monrovia in February 2015, President Sirleaf and Speaker Tyler “helped to employ more Liberians by issuing the following directives”: (a) Ellen generally called for more factories to be built in the country, while asking Sethi Brothers, the owner of this new plastic plant, to employ more Liberians at their plant; (b) Mr. Tyler for his part, called on Sethi Brothers too to build more factories across the country, so that, in his word, “our people can get jobs” (ELBC, February 9, 2015) 32. While touring the Firestone Area on July 1, 2015, especially in the Division #16 area, where she had gone to see Firestone’s new rubber wood processing plant, President Sirleaf called on Liberians to invest in rubber more, and to also invest in rubber wood.

(Farbric FM. News, July 2, 2015)

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33. President Sirleaf meets with Indian Entrepreneurs, says Liberia welcomes India-Africa Partnership Formation (http://www.micatliberia.com, October 28, 2015) 34. President Sirleaf receives Chinese business delegation – says private [foreign] sector investment provides a springboard for Liberia’s development (http://www.emansion.gov.lr, August 6, 2015) 35. VP Boakai wears advocacy garment – wants Golden Veroleum to employ more Liberians (INSIGHT newspaper, 2015) 36. President Sirleaf urges increased American investment in Africa (http://allafrica.com, September 28, 2015) 37. At the receipt of some international trade delegation to Liberia in early March 2016, Ellen expressed the need for more [foreign] investment in Liberia in order to improve the lives of the people of her country. She said her government will forge more international partnerships so as to improve the lives of the people. (ELBC, March 3, 2016) Based on Liberia’s fake economic mentality and orientation, which US Ambassador Deborah Malac once alluded to, no government policy or program is indigenously and independently derived. Everything one sees and hears happening in the corridors of power in this country is something dictated or required by some external force. Here are two quite interesting points to back all of the above in probably more intelligent ways: 38. During the farewell party of Finance Minister Amara Konneh in late April 2016, President Sirleaf rained so much praises on him. The justification was that through this man’s strong cases and advocacies at international conferences, Liberia became one of the countries that obtained more international aid. (ELBC News, April 2015) 39. “I know Liberians tend to think of concessions as the one model for foreign investment, but that model is increasingly outdated.” – Madam Deborah Malac, US Ambassador to Liberia, May 2015 A TERRIBLY HANDICAPPED COUNTRY THAT NEVER DOES ANYTHING WORTHWHILE ON ITS OWN – WE KEEP EMPHASING THIS POINT WITH A VERY HEAVY HEART As a result of this twisted understanding of what life is; what independence means; what revenue generation is; and what constitutes economics etc., as trumpeted by her so-called leaders, Liberia NEVER does anything worthwhile on her own, and anything worth doing here must be done with some donor, or, as the cliché is, some partner’s support or money. Here are just a very few examples in an ocean of proofs, within a short space of time – i.e. between late 2014 and this 2016:

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1. During the so-called Ebola fight, everybody saw that the people and government had nothing significant to contribute to the fight – no expertise, no cash, no equipment, no facility etc., and so the Senate voted that this whole health war be turned over formally and explicitly to international institutions and NGOs, so that Liberia and its people can only play some political role. This is how Finance Minister Amara Konneh is quoted as justifying the decision: “…Our procurement processes are very cumbersome, they are too slow as compared to those of other international agencies, especially UN agencies…” (ELBC Super Morning Show, October 1, 2014) 2. As a result of Liberia’s incapacity to contribute anything meaningful to the Ebola battle of 2014-15, the World Bank, in October 2015 officially clarified that they had been providing their support to Liberia in this public health crisis in 3 basic ways as follows:  Providing pay incentives for all healthcare workers, including their hazard pay  Providing supplies to all affected people and quarantined communities  Providing all the tools and equipment needed for the Ebola fight (ELBC, October 15, 2015) 3. In early 2015, news broke up that the Liberian Government, in its Education reform process, had secured 1 million new text books to share with her primary schools across the country. The secret was that these text books cost a grand total of US$9 million of World Bank funding.

4. During the Ebola crisis, special burial centers were needed to bury victims. According to Incident Management Team head and Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyensuah, it was USAID that helped set up about 70 of such special burial centers across the country during the crisis (ELBC, January 19, 2015) 5. Around late 2014 or thereabouts, the Ministry of Youth & Sports announced it had provided 300 vacation jobs to students across the country at $50 dollars for each student at the close of the work. The truth of the matter is that all this was UNICEF money.

(Local Radio News, 2015) 6. As part of Liberia’s Agriculture Ministry’s commitment to empowering rice farmers after the Ebola devastation, it was the World Bank that mobilized money to purchase seed rice and fertilizers to share with the farmers (Truth FM, February 13, 2015) 7. The Americo-Liberian Legislature goes to Ganta, Nimba County to hold a 5-day retreat at which proposals presented by the Special Constitution Review Committee would be debated. The United Nations Development Program takes on the responsibility for providing daily sustenance allowances for food etc., rental for the hall, accommodation for the lawmakers, among others. (ELBC, November 24, 2015) 8. Information Minister Eugene Nagbe speaking to ELBC from Israel says that a team of Israeli engineers will soon arrive in the country to assess Liberia’s Water & Sewer Corporation’s infrastructure to make interventions. He said Liberia will be tapping into Israel’s knowledge in the area of applying technology to Agriculture, and that Liberia will also start benefiting from Israeli investments soon (ELBC, June 9, 2016)

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Every time one turns their radio on in Liberia, the only thing you hear from “criminal” government officials is how the administration of Harvard-trained Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the best in the country’s 194 year history. They boast so much of how the government has built new roads; rehabilitated old roads, is rehabilitating a hydro plant etc., but what these criminals won’t openly disclose with emphasis is that all these relatively very insignificant work programs are funded by international people’s monies. Let’s drill you through a few examples: 9. The newly rehabilitated, so-called two-lane Jacob Milton’s Caldwell Bridge, which truly is one-lane (whose rehabilitation became paramount because international organizations and institutions are working on the funny Mount Coffee Hydro Plant and the Water & Sewer Corporation’s old plant etc.) was funded by the World Bank (ELBC, September 13, 2015) 10. The rehabilitation of few alleys and corridors in 1822 Monrovia during the Ellen’s regime are all, or 95% or more, funded by the World Bank, according to reliable sources, including the government herself 11. The much publicized one-lane Red Light to Gbarnga’s 176 km route, plus its other adjunct, 67 km Gbarnga to Ganta Border Road rehabilitation currently ongoing is an EU (European Union) funded project, implemented by the World Bank (ELBC, September 17, 2015) 12. The current Somalia Drive 50 km (about 31 mile) one-lane road that the Japanese are trying to upgrade to two lanes, if possible, is something that President Sirleaf has been begging the Japanese Government to help her do since 2009 according to the National Chronicle Newspaper; and, according to presidential spokesperson Jerolinmek Piah and others, during the 6 year period that the Japanese were studying this request before finally coming to start sometime in late 2015 – Ellen flew for 20 hours sometimes going to beg Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to come build this 31 mile road for her [so that it boosts her legacy]. Two things to note here with emphasis meanwhile are as follows: (a) From reliable sources, this poor, one-lane Somalia Drive alley in 1822 Monrovia was not even constructed by the government, but by Firestone, just to make sure she gets her criminally exploited latex out of vulnerable Liberia into the ports for shipment; (b) This Japan, that Ellen has bombarded for 6 years now to help her do our 31-mile Somalia Drive Road, has around 7 or more assistance projects ongoing in the country – most of which, or almost all of which, are at some standstill now due to proven massive corruption from the Liberian criminal gang called Government, and some of these projects or assistance packages include: (1) An over US$700,000 fund to build the capacity of staffs at Liberia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; (2) An oil grant scheme to empower the Liberian economy, that started with a $13 million infusion in 2011; (3) A food grant that sees over $5 million worth of food assistance coming to Liberia yearly; (4) A huge infusion of tens of millions of USD into Liberia’s 10 year 80 MW hydro plant rehabilitation project etc.

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(c) This Japan, which Ellen keeps pressing against the wall for help, despite being the world’s 3rd biggest economy, has been having a series of major economic and other crises over a couple of years now, including two recessions just in the past two years, about three massive earthquakes (one in 2011 and two this year, 2016), all of which took away scores of lives and billions of dollars of property worth that the country’s authorities are still assiduously struggling to recover; and (d) During the 1960s, when Americo-Liberian Tubman was selling out all of our ‘virgin’, precious resources for peanuts like a STUPID FOOL, just like Ellen is doing today, Liberia was rated on par, in terms of economic growth figures, with this same Japan etc.

13. In mid-December 2015, government broke grounds for the rehabilitation and construction of the Bardnersville, Kebbah, Diggsville, Caldwell New Georgia etc. roads– all around 11-12 kilometers community roads in suburban Monrovia, at the cost of a little over $12 million. (ELBC, December 17, 2015). Most of these projects had been politically promised for over 4 years, but nothing was happening during this time. The secret behind the groundbreaking done this day was that the criminal Americo-Liberian Government had just won a ‘bogus’ prize money from the US-based Millennium Challenge Corporation for what the both parties dishonestly call Liberia’s improvement at governance, economic management, fight against corruption etc.

14. Government has been boasting of its preparedness now to pave the GbarngaMendikorma Road. Here is the secret behind this preparedness from a local newspaper caption: “Arab Lenders on Gbarnga-Mendikorma Road Project Appraisal Mission”, which was captured by the Ministry of Finance and Development’s website (http://www.mfdp.gov.lr, late 2015) 15. Since Liberia’s only international airport was constructed as a US military quick impact project for their World War II operations from an Africa base in the 1940s and turned over to the government, the country has never been able to carry out any major repair work on this single runway facility independently, and with the country’s recent ‘uncivil’ war adding insult to injury, the facility lies in further ruins. To get this 1940s’ relatively makeshift facility rehabilitated over ten years on, into a peace time Liberian administration, up to three foreign lenders are financing the project, with government swooping as low down as crediting $2 million reportedly from some of the multiple lending firms, and up to this date, the project hasn’t yet been able to hit the ground running, owing to massive corruption within the processes leading to jumpstarting the project (FrontPage Africa Newspaper and other sources) 16. In mid-September 2015, Liberian Education Authorities – through County Officer Cecelia Reeves – announced the training of 800 teachers in Montserrado County. The money used to train these teachers was NGO money (ELBC, September 17, 2015) 17. In September 2015, the Chief Medical Officer of Bomi or Bong County, Dr. Logan, was complaining about the dilapidated state of health centers in his county. Guess on whose

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head was this responsibility placed? Dr. Logan called on the International Maritime Organization, which had reportedly pledged to help earlier, to hurry up to come rehabilitate these 10 health centers in the county (ELBC, September 25, 2015) 18. Out of tip offs that Liberia stands to benefit some assistance if her name is placed on the World Heritage listing, “independent and sovereign” Black American Liberia secures some UNESCO experts and UNESCO funding to do a tour of important/interesting sites in the country that could be developed later; again, with international dollars. (ELBC, October 15, 2015) 19. The Civil Service Agency is launching some program aimed at explaining to the public how she will effectively deliver services. USAID/GEM funds this initiative. (ELBC, December 12, 2015) 20. 43,000 square-mile, 4.5 million population Black American Criminals’ Liberia has two recognized vocational schools – all built by, and with foreign people’s money. One of these, the Monrovia Vocational Training Center (MVTC) had been dilapidated for some time now; recently, it got blessed to be spotted by the Chinese Government for rehabilitation. After the Chinese had spent over $9 million to rehabilitate the MVTC, sent 25 Liberians to China for training to form the teaching staff at the school, and pledged to undertake the running of the school for 1 year before turning it over to Mama Liberia, Ellen, at the dedicatory program of the newly rehabilitated school in November 2015, first thanked the Chinese for the project and outlined a long list of projects that the Chinese have successfully assisted the country with, including the government’s much talked about Jackson F. Doe Memorial Hospital, the only up-to-standard football field Liberia has ever seen since 1822, which is the SKD Sports Complex, the University of Liberia’s over $20 million Fendell Campus, the Central Agriculture Research Institute project etc.; then, in a rather disgracefully ungrateful mood, Ellen used this same occasion to call on the Chinese to hurry up and complete the other assistance projects they had promised for “handicapped” Liberia. Ellen called on them to hurry up and construct, as promised, the Government of Liberia’s Ministerial Complex; to hurry up to construct the Capitol Building Annex for the National Legislature; [to hurry up and upgrade Liberia’s only makeshift airport, the Roberts International Airport, an airport constructed as a US Military quick impact project during World War II days – to a new airport city, they say etc.] (ELBC, November 19, 2015). To make this development even more interesting, just within less than a year, newspapers have started publishing stories about this institution with such titles as “MVTC faces perpetual closure, 15,000 student’s fate hang in limbo etc. [probably because government lacks the capacity to maintain the school while they await the 25 teachers being trained by China to man the school.]

(Focus Newspaper, April 20, 2016 etc.)

21. In late 2015, Senator Edward Dagoseh announced to his people of Grand Cape Mount County that an 8-mile road from Robertsport to Medina, including other smaller feeder roads nearby would soon be paved. The assurance was that all of this would be prefinanced by some partners from South Korea. (ELBC, November 27, 2015)

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22. The Americo-Liberian Government, through its Governance Commission has been boasting of decentralizing governmental activities outside of Monrovia, as it has been the case that almost everything else is being done only in Monrovia since 1822. Here is the only strength the government has been relying on in all of its decentralization noise: (a) In early December 2015, the Government of Liberia, and the United Nations Development Program signed a US$5 million grant agreement with the Swedish Government for the implementation of Liberia’s decentralization program (ELBC, December 9, 2015). In fact, what truly happened according to ELBC was that a joint contribution agreement among the ‘sovereign and independent’ GOL, the UNDP, the EU, the USAID etc. was stroke for $18 million to be used over a period of 5 years, to take care of Liberia’s decentralization, poverty alleviation and other needs during this age of artificial intelligence.

23. Mr. Nathaniel Blamo, head of some Liberia National Union, disclosed once that USAID was the one that renovated the National Legislature; put into place an electronic voting system to be used during plenary debates etc., but that as we speak, the Legislators have been unable to continue with the use of this electronic system for some time now because of their financial inability to solve some problem on the system, and so they are still putting fingers up and manually counting heads during votes in this 21 st century.

(ELBC, December 12, 2015) 24. In late December 2015, a Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Research finding was published that identified 34 sites in 8 of Americo-Liberia’s 15 counties at which mini dams could be built to boost Liberia’s electricity supply. This purely domestic research was funded by the Norwegian Government (ELBC, December 29, 2015) 25. In anticipation of a smooth upcoming 2017 polls, Liberia’s Elections Coordinating Committee decided to host a short symposium to amend or discuss amendments to the existing elections law of the country. This symposium was funded by the USAID. (ELBC, January 4, 2016) 26. The Liberian Government after the Ebola fight decided to motivate its health workers by providing them some housing incentives. To do this, the National Housing Authorities had to liaise with the World Bank in identifying a $2.5 million housing project (ELBC, January 8, 2016) 27. Since the UN Peace mission began in Liberia in 2003, the Liberian Government had known quite well that this very expensive UN Mission, costing over $600 million per year to sustain, will definitely leave at least within a decade; and as such, every mechanism should be in place to domestically train and equip more security forces. But this has not been the case even as this UN Mission has spent over 13 years around, now costing them over $50 billion US Dollars. It is in the same year of UN’s final draw down, in 13 years that the Americo-Liberian Government makes case for US$90 million to train security forces, and puts out SOS call for help to train security forces. (http://allafrica.com, September 2015), as the President seeks Legislative approval to restructure the Americo-Liberian National Police and the Bureau of Immigration. (Local

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Newspaper, September 4, 2015). The Irish Aid Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responds in its own little way by sending 14 Drugs Enforcement Agency officers and 10 National Police officers to Ghana and Egypt respectively, all in January 2016, 5 months away from the final UN draw down (ELBC, January 23, 2016 etc.)

28. Just to encourage the public to report corruption cases to the Americo-Liberian AntiCorruption Commission, the World Bank was requested to fund the publicity. The result is a paper sticker printed by the LACC with World Bank money, which reads, “Corruption is injustice, and silence is consent! Report Corruption Now! ....”

29. The National Bureau of Concessions, with some external advice, decided to come up with a computer software to track the activities of concession companies across the country. At the close of the day, it is the USAID/GEM, according to Madam Ciatta Bishop, head of the Commission, that funded the software program. (ELBC, September 17, 2015) 30. The Swedish Government and the UNDP are the ones jointly funding the construction of court houses – including the magisterial courts across the country. This was disclosed in mid-November 2015 when groundbreaking ceremonies were being held for the construction of the Omega Magisterial Court in Paynesville (ELBC, November 18, 2015) 31. In February of 2016 some fire incident was reported on top of the Wologisi Mountain in Lofa County. The GOL shamefully could not handle this small fire incident on her own, and had to seek UNMIL’s assistance (the Parrot Newspaper, February 17, 2016) 32. The In Profile Daily Newspaper’s February 26, 2016’s edition reported a story titled, “ Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) solicits partnership to enhance tax collection.

33. In Profile Daily Newspaper’s November 25, 2015’s edition reportedly depicts Ellen [showing her hands] to the UN to provide money for Liberia’s Constitution Review process.

34. Ellen justifies flying around the world for help to ELBC boss, Legiwood Rennie as follows: “…..We don’t have our own resources to do the kinds of work we want to do, so we need to go around and make cases, and when we make these cases or assertions, the people to whom we make them will have to come on ground and verify things for themselves…” (ELBC, February 20, 2015) LIBERIA: A LAND SUSTAINED ONLY BY GIFTS, LOANS, GRANTS AND DONATIONS ETC. TO THE POINT THAT IT HAS NOW TERRIBLY ENTANGLED ITS INTERNATIONAL HELPMATES INTO AN INTRACTABLE WEB OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY SINCE LIBERIA is a country that almost ABSOLUTELY does nothing on her own, and down to printing stickers, she must be supported by either the World Bank or the EU etc., the international community, which normally means well, but can also have elements with either criminal, imperialist, or other exploitative agenda too, prepared to leverage the opportunity of people’s poverty and other vulnerabilities to enrich themselves at the

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expense and blood of poor people, has found in Liberia’s criminal gang called government, a good partnership for aid to pour into the country from left, right and center – whether people see or feel the reality or not. Liberia has gotten so dangerously exposed to exploitation that one can smell the monkey business in almost all of the donations, grants, loans and other financial packages flowing into this country almost every day. Here are just a few accounts of some of Liberia’s overwhelming aid and loan packages – all left with you the readers, creditors and donors etc. yourselves to figure out which ones reach down there to benefit the poor people. Monitoring radio for less than 3 hours a day, and tuning in to between 1 and 3 of Liberia’s reportedly over 30 FM radio stations, this is just a small sample, within one and a half years (i.e. between late 2014 and this 2016) of the level of goodwill and loans (both delivered and pledged) flowing into this country. Please note that to save us time, details are not provided. We also placed all of them under one section here because no one ever sees any transparent record of Liberia’s debt payments, thus effectively making loans to appear too like all the other ordinary gifts, because they are never paid, or at least convincingly paid back. Here we go: (A) LOANS (small sample of the huge batch that came in during this 1.5 year period) 1. The House of Representatives ratifies a US$20 million International Development Association’s funding deal. The money is intended to support Liberia’s 2014/2015 fiscal budget (ELBC, March 25, 2015) 2. President Sirleaf submits $20 million loan instrument for ratification (Focus Newspaper, March 11, 2016) 3. Ellen has written the House of Representatives to ratify two different loan agreements of $54.25 million and $8 million respectively to be used to revamp the economy (UNMIL Radio, November 1, 2014) 4. Presidential Press Secretary Jerolinmek Piah discloses his government’s receipt of $144 million concessional loan from the Indian Government as follows: “….We have just attended the 3rd India-Africa Summit in New Dehli; the second took place in 2011, during which time $8 billion was offered by the Indian Government as a line of credit to African countries, an amount from which Liberia managed to engage $144 million in loan to be used for our electricity project (Farbric New Dawn, November 10, 2015) 5. Ellen seeks US$12 million loan for Gbarnga-Sarlayei Road Project - (Women’s Voices Newspaper, June 28, 2016) 6. GOL and African Development Bank sign US$35 million agreement for road pavement in the South East - (ELBC News, July 19, 2016) GRANTS (small sample of the huge batch that came in during this 1.5 year period)

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7. $318,000 has been provided by the Food & Agriculture Organization to fight a disease called PPR, that has attacked and killed 300 cattle thus far in Lofa and Nimba counties (ELBC, November 23, 2015) 8. USAID

signs

$25

million municipal (www.frontpageafricaonline.com, August 27, 2015)

water

system

grant

9. Sweden commits $88 million to Liberia – (Frontier Newspaper, February 29, 2016) 10. Liberia’s 2015/2016 budget receives $279 million infusion from the EU (Local Radio News) 11. World Bank provides $54 million to cut poverty and food insecurity in Liberia (Liberia News Agency, 2015) 12. Sweden givers $32 million to Liberia annually (Liberia News Agency, October 26, 2015) 13. LEC Reform – Liberia poised to manage (www.frontpageafricaonline.com; September 20, 2015)

US$30

million

EU

aid

14. The Millennium Challenge Corporation approves US$256.7 million grant for Liberia (Daily Observer, September 22, 2015) 15. GOL-World Bank sign $132 million agreement (The News Newspaper, February 26, 2016) 16. Liberia gets EU financial support to implement climate change programs (https://appablog.wordpress.com... December 15, 2015) 17. Government of Liberia and the US launch [US Government-funded] $5 million National Security Radio Communications Network (ELBC, May 16, 2016) 18. GOL and World Bank sign $46 million financing agreement (ELBC, April 27, 2016) 19. Liberia gets US$37 million to sustain forest (The People Newspaper, May 9, 2016) 20. World Bank gives US$10 million for Liberia’s extremely poor (Capitol Times Newspaper, May 4, 2016) 21. World Bank approves $27 million for mini hydro plant in Lofa County (Capitol Times Newspaper, April 22, 2016) 22. $10 million for water crisis – World Bank approves credit for country (FrontPage Africa Newspaper, April 4, 2016) 23. Government receives $14 million from the World Bank to relocate the Redemption Hospital from New Kru Town to Caldwell (ELBC, March 2, 2016) 24. USAID and Liberia sign $59.1 million agreement for Liberia’s health sector (Public Agenda Newspaper, February 17, 2016)

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25. GOL and EU sign two financing agreements worth $60 million to support electricity and other sectors (Farbric FM News, February 9, 2016) 26. Swedish envoy earmarks US$158 million for Liberia (Women’s Voices Newspaper, February 5, 2016) 27. Liberia poised to get $1.26 billion share of Ebola money (Parrot Newspaper, January 20, 2016) 28. World Bank approves $27 million for Liberia’s rural electrification (Women’s Voices Newspaper, January 18, 2016) 29. GOL signs $25 million agreement with Germany to enhance Liberia’s socio-economic development (The Analyst Newspaper, January 14, 2016; The Public Agenda Newspaper, January 15, 2016) 30. World Bank President Jim Yon Kim announces over a billion US Dollars support to worst hit Ebola countries, including Liberia – (ELBC, January 15, 2016) 31. VP Boakai’s Office receives US$1.4 million grant from the Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation to conduct some community-based survey on Ebola (ELBC, January 4, 2016) 32. African Development Bank approves US$33.3 million Ebola Recovery Fund (http://allafrica.com/... October 26, 2015) 33. Montserrado and Grand Bassa Counties receive $45,000 in US Government grant for youth empowerment (ELBC, June 17, 2015) 34. EU drops US$18 million in Liberia’s [2015/2016] budget - (The News Newspaper, June 16, 2016) 35. African Development Bank dishes out US$10 million to GOL to develop Agriculture in the country - (ELBC News, June 13, 2016) 36. Michelle Obama announces $27 million for girls’ education - (Inquirer Newspaper, June 28, 2016) DONATIONS AND GOODWILLS (small sample of the huge batch that came in during this 1.5 year period) 37. Save the Children donates 7 motor bikes to the CH Rennie Hospital in Kakata to improve contact tracing (ELBC, December 19, 2014) 38. A vehicle fleet valuing US$1.2 million (including 12 protocol sedans and 4 buses) has been donated to the Liberian Government by China (Farbric FM News, June 4, 2015) 39. Chinese based construction company, CHICO donates equipment and tools to highly impoverished farmers in Bong County (ELBC, January 5, 2016)

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40. UNFPA donates, on behalf of the Japanese Government, 2 ambulances and 35 motor bikes – all worth US$200,000 to the Ministry of Health to tackle maternal mortality (ELBC, November 20, 2015) 41. UNFPA donates vehicle to Ministry of Health (Focus Newspaper, February 1, 2016) 42. World Bank, Other, boost Liberia’s health, make $1.8 million donation (Heritage Newspaper, February 16, 2016) 43. As China and America boost capacity, AFL, a force to reckon with (Heritage Newspaper, February 12, 2016) 44. Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) benefits $3 million Chinese military aid (The Independent Newspaper, February 12, 2016) 45. UN begins a $1 million water and sanitation project as part of its Ebola Recovery Program in Clara Town (ELBC, March 3, 2016) 46. British Charity, Tear Fund launches a one year water program in Sinoe (ELBC, March 3, 2016) 47. UNICEF donates to Health Ministry (Women’s Voices Newspaper, March 30, 2016) 48. 150,000 farmers to benefit from AfDB support (Women’s Voices Newspaper, April 11, 2016) 49. Japan to build reference lab for Ebola and other diseases (Daily Observer Newspaper, April 11, 2016) 50. World Food Program hands over Emergency Supply chain assets to the management of RIA (ELBC, April 18, 2016) 51. UNMIL donates a consignment of explosive ‘ordinance’ device to the AFL (ELBC, April 27, 2016) 52. Lebanese give US$100,000 to Tubman College (Inquirer Newspaper, May 19, 2016) 53. Hope for the visually impaired – World Bank takes Liberia school of the Blind to the digital age (FrontPage Africa, www.mofa.gov.lr, November 2015) 54. Sweden turns over crime lab to Liberia National Police (The Analyst Newspaper, October 26, 2015) 55. Liberian Government and World Bank to rehabilitate the Mesurado Fishery Terminal (www.gnnliberia.com, October 15, 2015) 56. WHO (World Health Organization) rescues Liberia’s health sector with 17 vehicles and computers (www.gnnliberia.com March 20, 2016) 57. In June 2015, the Indian Government donated thermometers and others to the Liberian Health authorities, and pledged to support the Agriculture sector – (ELBC, June 7, 2015)

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58. Liberia is unable to provide science labs in her colleges. Therefore in 2015, USAID embarked on providing Science lab equipment to the very few (3 or 4) community colleges across the 43,000 square-mile country, most, if not all of which are built with donor monies. Grand Bassa Community College receives hers in early October 2015, but just earlier before that, USAID had done similar donations at the BWI (Boker Washington Institute), and the Lofa and Nimba Counties’ Community Colleges (ELBC, October 5, 2015) 59. UNMIL turns over jury database system to Liberia’s Temple of Justice (ELBC, January 28, 2016) 60. Justice Minister receives 19 computers from an NGO, while addressing the recent Darlington George dismissal saga (ELBC, September 18, 2015) 61. UNFPA donates pickup to the Girls Support Division at the Ministry of Education (ELBC, October 22, 2015) 62. Ducor Lion Club donates wheel chairs to JFK (Hot Pepper Newspaper, May 12, 2016) 63. China medical team donates drugs to JFK Hospital (Heritage Newspaper, 2016) 64. Japanese Government distributes assorted materials to border communities in 8 counties - (ELBC/Local News, June, 2016) 65. South Korea donates 6 vehicles to Ministry of Foreign Affairs - (Parrot Newspaper, June 27, 2016) 66. US donates military equipment to Liberian Government - (The Catalyst Newspaper, July 13, 2016)

OTHER 67. World Bank head demands more money for post Ebola Liberia. Madam Helen Clarke was requesting for more funding to the badly hit Ebola countries, including Liberia (ELBC, February 16, 2015) 68. 63,000 Liberians to gain access to safe drinking water – World Bank leads the process (Women’s Voices Newspaper, March 30, 2016) 69. Liberia-China sign letter of intent to boost Agriculture (Focus Newspaper, January 20, 2016) A LAND OF UNSPEAKABLE POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF ALL THESE GRANTS, GIFTS, LOANS, AND OTHER FORMS OF FINANCIAL PACKAGES AND ASSISTANCE IN the midst of all these loans, grants, gifts, favors and other forms of assistance which we could go on listing and listing here endlessly, that continue to pour into this small, old, dirty country, to prove the economists right, that “There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” or TINSTAAFL – the foundation of all economics, and a concept originating from the days of Biblical King Nebuchadnezzar (according to historical sources) no one knows where these

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gifts, loans and grants are taking Liberia, as POVERTY rages on, and deprivation flourishes, to the point now of decimating almost a whole society. As if the people of this country don’t know yet, in their 194 years of being around as a political entity, that the things called gifts, grants, “goodwill” and other forms of free financial packages, and even loans to some extent, especially in the case of criminal Liberia (around whose activities are almost always not well-intentioned), can either be more of curse or further subjection to slavery or unending indebtedness etc., they (Liberian people) keep relying on these kinds of means as their ONLY major sources of revenue generation and so-called development. The bad side of this kind of dependency and their crippling effects are adequately defended by authors such as George Bataille and Jonathan Parry. These writers have convincingly argued, especially under the broad topic, “Gift Economy”, that there’s nothing called free gifts, as everything given to a society today under the guise of being free must be paid back or paid for by society tomorrow one way or the other – whether illegally behind the scenes or broadly some way, in addition to the fact that gifts can also be a source of curse or some subjection to slavery or untold indebtedness. All of this interprets to the conclusion that an economy which will result to shared prosperity for its people must be developed from within, through entrepreneurial and indigenous, innovative efforts by the citizens and government themselves, and NOT necessarily by World Bank and EU loans, especially within the Liberian context.

Having laid all of these bases, let’s now list some of the woeful economic realities in Liberia, ranging from unimaginably poor infrastructure and human resource development reality, to a generally very poor purchasing power of government institutions, and extending to individual citizen’s gross lack of capacity to withstand shocks etc., in the midst of all of the wonderful gifts, loans, grants, development assistance, and favors that this country has been enjoying since 1822 – even though the accounts we have been giving above just cover 1.5 years, starting late 2014 to this 2016. Here we go: A. Infrastructure And Human Poverty POOR INFRASTRUCTURE (just 24 in hundreds of examples or proofs of Americo-Liberia’s extreme infrastructure poverty) 1. Liberia, 194 years old, 43,000 square miles, has less than 300 miles of paved one-lane roads that cater for less than 4 major, relatively short-distance highways across the whole country. (Executive Mansion sources, Ministry of Finance Report and others) 2. Poor quality, diesel-machine generated, and intermittently-supplied electricity reaches around 0.0024% of the population, only mainly around Central Monrovia (Liberia Electricity Corporation, US Monrovia Embassy Sources, and others) 3. Government-provided housing, since 1822, has not been able as yet to affect the lives of up to 0.0002% of the population, talk less about 1% (National Housing Authority, Executive Mansion Sources etc.)

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some other disjointed fashion in some communities outside of Monrovia (Liberia Water & Sewer Corporation, others) 5. There are a very few, poorly staffed, and ill-equipped health facilities in the countrymainly in Monrovia. Most of the very few drugs at these facilities, including most of the beautifully packaged drugs in many pharmacies in the country are reportedly beyond their expiration dates. The physician to population ratio is at a horrible 1 doctor to 100,000 citizens (1:100,000) etc. (US Monrovia Embassy Sources, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, BBC, ELBC etc.)

6. At the Gaoula District Police depot in Grand Cape Mount County, the 5 th oldest county of the country, detainees reportedly have to be taken to the nearby bushes to ease themselves because of lack of restroom facilities. It is reported that one notorious armrelated criminal, one Kromah, escaped from this facility because he was permitted to go to the nearby bushes to attend to nature (ELBC, Sky FM, February 16, 2015) 7. There is only one place in the whole country where all birth certificates are obtained; and this is the Office of Vital Statistics at the Ministry of Health. In fact, some time ago, Rep. George Mulbah of Bong County was heard expressing his frustration at how people from all walks of Liberian life must have to come down to Monrovia, with some having to travel for over 300 miles, just to obtain a birth certificate. Sometime in mid-2015, the head of this office was heard complaining to the public about how his office, or section, is terribly underequipped, with only one printer serving the whole country, no means of transportation for his section, and a very irregular supply of electricity, among others.

(Farbric FM. May 29, 2015) 8. Few journalists traveling with Education Ministry officials on an assessment trip to the South Eastern region of the country made the following claims and observations which Ministry officials reportedly confirmed: (a) In the Karlor Area in Sinoe, goat feces and urines flood dilapidated classrooms where children take lessons; (b) In many makeshift schools in these areas, there are no latrines, no water facilities/supply, and students sometimes have to go home and wait for the cessation of downpours of rains before coming back to class to clean up ditches of rainwater before resuming lessons; (c) Big-sized girls will have to seek permission to go home and use restrooms before returning back to class, regardless of how far away from their makeshift campuses they live; (Farbric FM. June 15, 2015 etc.). In further related developments, Education Ministry authorities and journalists also disclosed how the whole South Eastern Region comprising the counties of Sinoe, Maryland, Grand Kru, and Grand Gedeh, especially with emphasis on Grand Kru, had no Math and Science teachers in their high schools. In May 2015, ELBC reported how in Nimba County District #8, children share their

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makeshift classrooms with pigs, which sometimes violently interrupt classroom activities during broad day. (ELBC, May 6, 2015). Still on Education, it is reported that within the 2014/2015 fiscal budget, the Americo-Liberian National Legislature allotted ONLY US$2,000 (i.e. Two Thousand Dollars) for developing Science & Technology programs in ALL public schools across ALL of Liberia’s 15 counties (Farbric FM. June 22, 2015).

Miss Abigail Freeman, head of the Nimba County Students Union tearfully narrated how charcoal is still being used in place of chalks in some schools in her county (Farbric FM, July 15, 2015) 9. Disclosing the Americo-Liberian Government’s achievement in road building thus far, Executive Mansion authorities narrate, “Government has thus far built 118 km (around 73 miles) of new roads [even though what they will not mention is that these are the same one-lane roads of 1700s’ standards; and that they are being built with foreign dollars, plus, that it has taken 10 years to build these 73 miles of roads; that is, around 7 miles of one-lane roads per year with foreign dollars etc. (Jerolinmek Piah and Elkina Westley, Farbric FM. New Dawn, December 22, 2015) 10. Patrick Sendolo, Minister of Lands, Mines & Energy, disclosing the overall progress thus far that his Americo-Liberian Government has been able to achieve in the area of electricity narrates, “…We had a few Mega Watts when this President came to power; today, [in ten years], we have anything between 10 and 20 MW...” (ELBC, April 19, 2016). In short, Mr. Sendolo was saying, it takes his government 1 year to generate 1 MW of electricity, when from reliable sources, Monrovia alone needs around 120 MW to get fully electrified, and the whole country needs around 700 MW to get electrified at some standards. These are some of the depth of the Americo-Liberian infrastructural poverty 11. The biggest, and probably the only referral hospital in the country, when considering standards (the John F. Kennedy Medical Center) has been decried as dilapidated and very unreliable. In fact, many have changed its name now to different things including “Just For Killing” Medical Center, or JFK Death Trap etc., and the government itself acknowledges these facts but has repeatedly articulated its inability to do anything about this hospital, which in reality was also built with foreign grant and loan in the 1960s, and a loan that government never paid back. In 2015, Hospital Board Chair, Health Minister Dr. Dahn announced that $181 million will be needed to resuscitate the hospital. But the question is that, in such a barren country like this, where will such money come from?

This only means that the “Just For Killing” label will remain in place for this facility forever (ELBC, October 13, 2015). In more development from the health sector, Jallah Louhn Hospital, the only referral hospital in the whole of Gbarpolu County, a county of around 200,000 inhabitants was totally out of ambulance; was being supplied by a single diesel generator, and that there were no drugs available. Elsewhere, the Gboejeezay Hospital in Morweh, Rivercess County, didn’t even have a generator, so hospital staff were using flashlights at night even during the delivery of women (National Chronicle Newspaper, Heritage Newspaper, Farbric Night Time Radio etc., April 29, 2014)

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12. Dr. Charles Allen of the Liberia Water & Sewer Corporation, talking to the press about their corporate challenges outlined, among other things, the following: (a) that they need a fiber glass line of a hundred year guarantee for water transmission but they don’t even know how much this would cost them, just as they don’t know where to get the money from, even if they were to get the price today; (b) they need four reservoirs in Monrovia to ease water supply problems, and for this, they already started talking to the World Bank; (c) they also need some fallback equipment and facilities to quickly respond to emergencies, but they don’t have anything as such, and would require more resources for this etc. (Local Radio News, 2015). Still on another occasion Liberia Water & Sewer Corporation disclosed in 2015 that to really be functional it needs some US$250 million, only for the next two years. (ELBC, October 22, 2015). But this is an amount that can NEVER be indigenously generated in this criminal Black American country. So the LWSC had been constrained to organize its own international donor conference, just as the Education Minister announced his going abroad to seek international private partners and philanthropists to come improve Liberia’s Educational system. In early March 2016 according to Farbric FM, the LWSC announced some one-day international donor conference to raise funds for operations, especially targeting its required $250 million for the next two years. The result thus far has been a reported $10 million from the World Bank (FrontPage Africa Newspaper, April 4, 2016 etc.). In the end, the AmericoLiberian Water & Sewer Corporation now has about 4% of what it needs, and can now start working to provide water to Liberia’s 4.5 million people.

13. The Parrot Newspaper reports on February 8, 2016 that according to the Liberia Fire Service Bureau, the entire country has only 4 fire trucks, and the beautiful addition that would fit this story is that these trucks ABSOLUTELY will be old, donated fire trucks, that definitely are no longer in their first degree state of efficiency.

14. A whole community of tens of thousands of people in parts of Montserrado County, the county hosting 1822 Monrovia, was just reported to have received its first hand pump in 20 years (Analyst Newspaper, April 12, 2016) 15. A well-known caller on the Farbric FM New Dawn talk show disclosed that the only high school in Cestos City, and by extension, Rivercess County, a county of over 200,000 persons, had completely lost its roof to storm and other problems, and as such, operations were now being run at a nearby residential building on an emergency basis (Farbric FM, June 2, 2015) 16. Chinese Government builds the Jackson F. Doe Hospital as gift; does its initial set up (furnishing and equipping the hospital), and then turns it over to the Government of Liberia. In short time, the CT scanner at the hospital turns dysfunctional/defective, and the GOL is now doing an SOS call for assistance from anywhere to get a new one. And in fact, because it will be too difficult for someone or some NGO to purchase this equipment for the government, this multimillion dollar Chinese built hospital as gift, is about to shut down operations (Inquirer Newspaper, March 31, 2016; Focus Newspaper, April 20, 2016; Independent Newspaper.)

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17. A top official of the Public Works Ministry, Mr. Langlay, in a local radio interview once, disclosed that the entire Ministry had only one septi-truck to clean drainages across the 43,000 square mile country, which in fact was down at the time. He also disclosed that the Ministry had only one excavator, which was also down somewhere, and had not yet been brought back on base. A few times later, the Minister himself revealed that the only heavy duty light that his Ministry was using to do patch works at night was a little donation from US Army personnel that had come to Liberia to fight Ebola. Minister Gyudee Moore further elaborated in April 2015 that most of his resident engineers don’t even have vehicles to help them monitor ongoing construction works in the leeward counties (Farbric FM. April 13, 2015). Still lamenting their part of acute “no money” plight, Min. Moore further disclosed painfully how his Ministry had submitted a US$107 million budget for 2015/2016 FY for the expensive activities of constructing new feeder roads and the rehabilitation and maintenance of existing roads, but this amount was cut by almost 80%, for a total approval of $23 million, an amount of which more than 70% will go to payroll activities; meaning, 1822 Liberia will be using around $4 - $5 million to do new feeder roads and rehabilitate old roads for 12 months, when one kilometer of any new road construction costs around $1 million. Imagine what it will take for Liberia to independently construct a 100 mile, one-lane road.

18. Rep. Saah Joseph of Montserrado County said during one of his trips to the US, he came across a hospital in California that had gone bankrupt and wanted to diversify, but was desperately trying to dispose of its materials one way or the other. When he expressed interest on behalf of Liberia to take delivery of these over $5 million worth of health equipment and hospital materials, the hospital authorities sent a team to the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia, the expected new facility to host these items from California. But when the team completed its assessment of the JFK facilities, the opinion expressed by the team was that JFK was a complete thrash, absolutely incapable of hosting such state-of-the-art equipment and hospital materials. (Voice FM. January 15, 2016) 19. Major army barrack in darkness (Concord Times Newspaper, June 15, 2016) 20. CB Dunbar Hospital in Bong County closes down due to lack of generator to operate, drives away even pregnant women in pain (ELBC, June 8, 2016) 21. Lightning strike takes GOL’s TV station off air – officials/administrators say this may keep the facility off for time indefinite, because the damaged equipment will cost around $75,000 and they don’t know how soon such huge sum will ever be raised again (ELBC, June 15, 2016) VERY POOR HUMAN CAPACITY REALITY 1. Speaking at the launch of his new business project in Monrovia, former Senator Cletus Wotorson expressed strong regrets about Liberia’s dearth or huge lack of human resource

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capacity and disclosed his unfortunate doubt that the country would ever be able to ease or improve this deficit in any foreseeable future (ELBC, February 13, 2015) 2. In June 2015, Dr. Amos Sawyer registered his fears about the greatest problem he now perceives for the country. In his words, “The biggest fear we have now is about human resource capacity, especially of our youths, this generation, and beyond, which means that we have to do more in the transfer of knowledge and the inculcation of values into our younger ones…” (ELBC SMS and Truth Breakfast, June 14, 2015) 3. Information Minister Lewis Brown discloses that Liberia, established in 1822, with socalled independence date at July 26, 1847, has no qualified pathologists on ground, so for each case of murder, homicide, suicide, and the likes, Americo-Liberia must send for some pathologist from outside the country (ELBC, February 16, 2015) ACCOUNTS OF BOTH POOR HUMAN RESOURCE CAPACITY + POOR INFRASTRUCTURE 4. Poor, 194-year old Liberia, still has major deficits in producing high school teachers, talk less about what’s happening at the undergraduate and graduate levels, because postgraduate obviously will be a big “No Go Zone” for the Americo-Liberian authorities forever. Because of the extreme level of poverty in this place, in September 2015, Nigeria came to Liberia’s aid by sending 19, mainly high school teachers to help 1822 Liberia (ELBC, September 17, 2015). But to even add insult to injury, these Nigerians, by late April to early May 2016, just within less than 8 months of their ‘assistance’ assignment, have started complaining about the lack of services such as electricity, and the lack of basic things like water, and even food to eat. (ELBC) 5. According to authoritative sources, troop numbers of a country or territory MUST reach 50,000 and above to qualify as a national army or military. Ever since the international community used around $250 million to establish Liberia’s new army unit, and train its first batch of between 1,500 to 2,000 troops, which now constitutes the country’s entire military strength up to this 2016, Liberia’s own efforts at augmenting this foolishly mocking number thus far, with presumptive traces of donor money again, has been 154 (ELBC, December 10, 2015 etc.). So for instance, if one considers all of the reportedly illegal dismissals that have been taking place in this 2,000-strong Americo-Liberian “militia” of tribal suppression and marginalization called the AFL, plus resignations and other forms of exiting or quitting up to this point, even with the newly trained batch of 154 in December 2015, AFL will NEVER have a total of more than 1,700 troops by now.

But to add insult to injury, this mocking number of Americo-Liberian anti-Native weaponry called AFL, as it was in the LFF, only survives on other people’s donated equipment and logistics, as barren Liberia’s around $12 million annual budget for their AFL will NEVER do anything substantial other than a mere taking care of basic payroll.

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to talk about gunboats, helicopters, and basic things like these, for this 21 st century – all because of Liberia’s curse with barrenness and its stubbornness to massively generate its own revenue, a product of US neo-colonialism.

6. Around 2013, after touring the country for some oil consultations, the House of Representatives claimed it had discovered painfully massive levels of ‘undevelopment’ and poverty across the country, and got terribly appalled by this embarrassment, thus pushing it to act. As such, around this same time to early 2014, they proposed a Direct District Development Fund, to be added to two existing national development programs or funds – the existing County Development Fund, and Social Development Fund. The main reason for this 3rd development fund was that the chronic bureaucracy of the Executive Branch was tying down these previous two funds, thus impeding developmental projects; and so, the new District Development Fund will fall under the direct supervision of lawmakers, while the CDF and the SDF remain stuck into these established long Executive Branch bureaucratic bottlenecks – which everyone knows can be criminal in intent and nature. The Legislature then demanded the Executive to ensure that this new development fund starts with US$73 million in the 2015/2016 fiscal year budget to be shared among the 73 electoral districts at $1 million per district. But because of the extreme poverty of this country in every positive aspect of life, including ideas, as demonstrated right here, and in finances too, an authoritative $73 million demand/request made by the Legislature for pressing development purposes dropped to around US$10 million for all 73 districts. This means an over 85% shortage of what they wanted as an initial amount in something that is supposed to demand tens of millions of dollars for each district, as the scheme progresses – if this were in the case of a serious people. The result of all advocacy was that US$68,000 was shared with each representative – whether directly or indirectly – to develop their districts out of an initial $1 million, as the Americo-Liberian society now looks forward to G7-style infrastructure development in each district by now (Farbric FM. January 5, 2016; Isaac Redd, Farbric FM. New Dawn, September 14, 2015) 7. Criminal Court Judge Blamo Dixon complaints of the over-crowdedness of court dockets [due to lack of capacity, facilities, etc.]. He says in October 2015 that many cases from 2006 to 2010 were still stocked on court dockets unheard and needed to just be thrown out unheard. Imagine how many persons who believe in the Americo-Liberian Justice System would be denied justice in this case (ELBC, October 26, 2015). In the same vein, Associate Justice Kabineh J’aneh of the Supreme Court of Liberia has also disclosed some of the crippling problems faced by the Judiciary as over-crowdedness of court dockets, huge number of pretrial detainees, and slow trial processes, inter-alia. He is also complaining that the current laws of the country are not adequate enough to handle the challenges faced by the system. (ELBC, November 23, 2015) HOW GOVERNMENT AGENCIES OR INSTITUTIONS, INDIVIDUALS, HAVE VERY POOR PURCHASING POWER

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The government itself is very poor, and is always pressed for money, as the few examples below substantiate: 8. Cllr. Marcus Paygar of the Liberia Bar Association decries very low judicial budget that hampers performance; Judge Blamo Dixon, for his part, complaints how magistrates, the equivalents of Assistant Ministers do walk to court instead of owning vehicles for themselves (ELBC, November 10, 2015) 9. Dr. Clarence Moniba of the President’s Project Office and Deputy Minister Dehpue Zuo, in conversation with ELBC disclosed that the cost of renovating the JFK Memorial Hospital would be around US$30 million, but in their words, “Government does not have that kind of money”, so they had been talking to an Indian Company which will be coming soon to do an assessment of the hospital facilities (ELBC, November 12, 2015) 10. America has always been a ‘god’ to Americo-Liberia; and so, anything about, or involving America is handled by ‘servant’ Liberia with the greatest of care. But this extreme poverty and barrenness also badly affects Americo-Liberian missions that the New Democrat Newspaper reports in January 2016, that the Liberian Mission in the United States was under the spotlight for some embarrassing US$9 million arrears owed some US interest.

11. Even the fiscal arm’s authorities themselves do feel the pinch, and are frustrated by the depth of this poverty. Finance Minister Amara Konneh in February 2016 stated that the government needed $30 million for budget support, and unfortunately they were now limited to a maximum loan financing of around $7 million. (ELBC, February 10, 2016) 12. Superintendent Matthew Daniels of Rivercess County says his county puts up the highest amount of maternal deaths [due to lack of facilities and so forth], and the chiefs of his county work without pay [because of this acute “no money” syndrome]. (ELBC, April 2016) 13. The commission controlling and supervising all tertiary education activities in the whole country says it receives around $300,000 per year as budget, with commissioners not even having vehicles to take them to work. Dr. Marcus Slewion heads this commission (ELBC, October 2015) 14. The National Elections Commission in February of this year was making its part of request that it needed $57 million to help it conduct next year’s elections (New Republic Newspaper, February 26, 2016) 15. Nimba County Representative, Hon. ‘Mantinokaye’ Tingba once disclosed that the US$1.5 million Social Development Funds provided his county by Arcellor Mittal has always been credited by President Sirleaf and her Executive Branch to offset various government expenditures, including civil servants salaries. (Radio Veritas, March 3, 2015)

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16. Liberia’s Finance Minister reported in May 2014 that for 8 consecutive fiscal years – i.e. from 2006 to 2014 – his government had generated a combined, gross revenue of disgracefully ONLY US$2.7 billion, less than what single private companies, like for example, young Facebook, generates in profits alone during just 3 months of their operations, according to reliable sources. (ELBC, May 13, 2014); and sadly, all of this amount will never be money generated from core business operational activities, but largely from loans and grants, and budget supports from World Bank, EU and the likes.

17. In April 2015, reporters disclosed that for lack of water supply at the National Legislature due to unpaid arrears of less than US$3,200 owed the Water & Sewer Corporation by the Legislature, around 30 restrooms were locked and out of service for months to the point that Capitol Building staffs, including women, had to be squatting in the grass, or around shrubs on the compound, to attend to nature, while some visitors reportedly defecated on themselves once, as result of this grand embarrassment (ELBC, April 24, 2015). At this same Americo-Liberian Legislature, which is still waiting for years now, for the Chinese Government to construct their annex, an ELBC, February 2016 report discloses how, at current, the 73 electronic sound system equipment placed in their hall or rotunda by some NGO, to add value to, or ‘civilize’ their parliamentary debates; again, have all broken down to the point that lawmakers wanting to contribute to issues across their huge floor, do have to leave their distant seats and take a long walk up to the front, and when journalists want to record debates, they have to walk to each lawmaker as they talk – and lawmakers have to be screaming in order to be heard (ELBC, February 5, 2016). There are also reports that votes at this 53 rd, 21st century Americo-Liberian Legislature are counted manually.

18. In April 2015, Margibi County officials were complaining that central government owed their county around $3 million in County Development Funds, and this was causing them serious embarrassment to carry out any of their planned development activities in those 4 years up to the time of this revelation (Farbric FM. April 28, 2015) 19. Speaking to the New Dawn program on June 10, 2015, the University of Liberia’s Vice President for Public Affairs disclosed with frustration that his University, the biggest in the country, with around 30,000 students, operating from four campuses had submitted a budget of US$30 million to the National Government, which the Legislature had cut by half, and that frankly, they could not run the university on this $15 million, over 90% of which will handle payroll expenses, so it was just another embarrassment to the educational sector, as it has always been the case (Farbric FM, June 10, 2015) 20. Sports has turned into a multi-million to multibillion dollar business in this 21 st century for all stakeholders, including governments and individuals, apart from it being an excellent source of entertainment and other forms of human enrichment experiences.

Sports now brings about all forms of economic and infrastructure development, of course with a precondition that massive investment must be made into it too. Journalist Trojan Kiazolu, after conducting some investigation into how sporting houses are being sustained in Liberia financially, disclosed how for example, the Liberia Football

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Association budgeted ONLY US$1 million for all of its football programs across the country – including its 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st division leagues, women’s leagues etc. – but the government only approved half of this already LAUGHABLE amount, $500,000 to take care of all these leagues plus the administrative and operational running of the FA for the whole year. For the national basketball federation, it received $100,000 to conduct basketball activities in 15 counties across 43,000 square-miles; some other national federations like Track & Field received $20,000 etc. Trojan then tried to draw some parallel with other nearby West African countries, and he narrated how for instance, the Gambian FA received US$16 million for the year; Ghana, for its part, more than $20 million etc. just for their football programs alone, and not for the other sporting activities (Farbric New Dawn, July 13, 2015). In September of this same 2015, Deputy Youth & Sports Minister Henry Yonton, made much graver “no money” revelations as follows: (a) Most of the federations under our sporting program don’t have a budget, they only receive some small subsidies, which can’t even take them to next door Ivory Coast and back home; (b) Several factors are responsible for why we are just not getting there – he means making progress here – and the first and foremost serious of these factors is that we have a very tight envelop, and then we also have no facilities; (c) All of the ministries and agencies are complaining this same way – i.e. that their budgets are too tight, the envelops are just too tight, but you can’t squeeze water out of rock; (d) When the Africa Games Committee extended invitation to Liberia some time ago, the Ministry of Youth and Sports didn’t even have money to send Liberian teams; (e) The government used $75,000 to send the National Amputee Team to America, a trip whose objectives were not met, and so the team is still there stranded [apparently because government only afforded one way tickets, so that their activities in America could secure for them their return trip tickets]; (f) We are now in two regional and continental qualifiers, which will lead us to playing more than 7 games – both home and away [and this is another huge challenge again in terms of funding for transportation], as for example, the budget for Guinea Bissau’s game, back to back, is more than US$400,000; Tunisia, more than US$300,000 etc. (g) As for preparation for our county meet games, we give each county L$20,000 (around US$220) to prepare their teams for football, basketball, kickball, and volleyball – for this national sporting jamboree; (h) Asked about national teams players’ insurance, the Minister suggested, with BIG Shame, NOT; meaning, national teams players in this 194 year old Black American

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country, in this 21st century are NEVER insured – so if they go to play a game for example, and they got seriously wounded or even lose their lives in the process, their family members will just mourn that loss free (Farbric FM. New Dawn, September 25, 2015) 21. Here is how Education Minister George Werner voiced out some of his experiences about the depth of poverty at his ministry: (a) “….the demand for education is too high in the country, but the services put up by government in response are relatively poor…” Note, Mr. Werner should have just said here ABSOLUTELY POOR, instead of relatively poor, but he had to somehow protect his job. (b) the reform plans that we now have at the Ministry are very good, but we sadly will NEVER get the money for it here, and so, I am going to get out there in the world – America, Europe etc. – to start talking to philanthropists and donors for help; (c) With respect to the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC), Liberia has not paid its contributions or dues to this body for some time now, and even in the midst of this embarrassment, the Monrovia Office of WAEC gets so pressed for money that it has to at times send SOS calls to headquarters in Accra, Ghana – that office that she heavily owes – for money to continue the Liberian operations…” (Farbric FM. New Dawn, September 24, 2015) 22. Minister Patrick Sendolo of Lands, Mines & Energy walked into the ELBC Studio to explain his Ministry’s part of the POVERTY experience as follows: (a)”… For the past 4 budget years, government’s contributions to the electricity sector has been very negligible; you can’t provide electricity merely on good faith, you can’t do so either on mere theory. Every step we take in the electricity value chain – from generation, to transmission, to distribution in this country, we have to seek donor funding; we just don’t have the money…" (ELBC, Super Morning Show, October 2, 2015) 23. The National Housing Authority’s Deputy Managing Director for Administration, Mr. Prince Anything Wreh, simply presented his agency’s side of the poverty syndrome as follows: (a) “….the government just does not have the resources to do all that we want to do”; [although if he were much bolder, he would have simply said, “the government just doesn’t have the resources it needs to do the most basic things it is supposed to do for its people, PERIOD (Farbric New Dawn, December 16, 2015) 24. In June 2015, the Independent National Human Rights Commission was crying out that it needed around $3 million to function properly. (Farbric FM. June 10, 2015) 25. The Americo-Liberian National Police (LNP) is a big victim too of this scourging POVERTY curse in their government. In May 2015, UNMIL boss, Karin Langrin,

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expressed her deepest apprehension about Liberia’s obvious inability to provide security for her people when UNMIL leaves. The UNMIL boss painfully narrated how, due to lack of support and incentives, an already negligible force of 162 police officers assigned in the whole of Rivercess County at the time, had to be drastically downsized to a mocking 26. (ELBC, May 21, 2015). One can imagine how Madam Langrin would ever feel now to hear that in this year, 2016, in the same Rivercess County, the whole Morweh District, of normally over 20 – 30,000 persons, has only one police officer assigned there, who sometimes for fear of his life, has to pretentiously smile with, and salute bands of drug traffickers as they pass by in their convoy of motorbikes. In fact, it is reported that the police depot or facility in this entire District is one poor woman’s former mud-built cook shop, which the authorities there have painted with the national colors of red, white and blue. (Farbric News, March 24, 2016). In another county, Grand Cape Mount, the very few police officers assigned there were reportedly threatening to abandon their assignment and come back to Monrovia (ELBC, June 18, 2015). Still with the police, Mr. Anthony Philips, with a local radio, Top FM 105, in Grand Gedeh County narrated how the Zleh Town’s Police Station in Konoboe District, Grand Gedeh County, is a structure built out of sticks and red earth etc. (Voice FM., The Papers, April 7, 2016).

But how did the Police Chief, Col. Chris Massaquoi himself narrate these ghastly tales of poverty? Some time ago, Col. Massaquoi said he had submitted a yearly budget – referring to his FY 2015/2016 budget – of US$44 million to the National Legislature, but out of this amount, only $15 million was approved, and sadly out of this $15 million, $13 million goes to payroll expenses, mockingly leaving $2 million for ALL police operations across ALL the country’s 15 counties for a whole round year of 12 months – something he referred to, with frustration as a BIG Joke, although it stood in the end because the common saying to promote this POVERTY in Americo-Liberia is: “You can’t squeeze water out of rock” (ELBC, February 10, 2016) 26. At their early July 2015 budget hearing formalities at the Americo-Liberian Legislature, Ministry of Commerce authorities cried out for lack of adequate implements and facilities to test things like water, flour etc. and almost all commodities, and that their existing processes don’t match any ISO standards (referring to the International Standards Organization). The Labor Ministry also complaint of severe logistical constraints which impede all their functions. So people all over the Liberian Government just practically go to hustle for their food money and anything possible to steal based on one’s access, but NEVER to accomplish anything worthwhile for both current and future generations. (ELBC, July 2, 2015) 27. To facilitate speedy dispensation of justice, and to ease logistical constraints, in addition to other things, the international community or international donor agencies reportedly identified 4 or 5 spots across Liberia to construct some sort one-stop shop justice and security-related office complexes they call justice hubs. The first was built in Gbarnga, Bong County, called Justice Hub 1, the only successfully and fully functional one thus far. But just in few years or even months of its operations, Manager Hezekiah Sackor discloses to the press how it now faces major problems, including its building falling

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apart due to poor construction, serious logistical problems, among others. as he said this hub that serves the 3 giant and highly populated counties of Nimba, Bong, and Lofa only has 3 vehicles. (ELBC, April 1, 2015) 28. Liberia is so POOR that she has NEVER afforded any new public buses for her citizens (although this is a long and deep debate), in any recent memory before. The few National Transit Authority buses one sees in Monrovia’s dilapidated one-lane streets are all gifts from other countries. Because these buses are already used up and second-handed from other countries, some sources at the NTA say they just come and park in the fence for more maintenance work. The less than 10, purely second-handed gifts, that ply the roads in this whole 43,000 square-mile country, are highly vulnerable to obvious accidents, just anytime. Two cases in point are when one of them somersaulted on the GbarngaGanta highway in August 2015 killing a few and wounding several passengers. The driver, Robert Larmie, said the bus had abruptly cut off while he was driving in Gear 3.

(ELBC, August 7, 2015). In very early May 2016, one of these old gifts, cruising between Monrovia and Kakata, just reportedly burst into flames, as all 52 passengers disembarked, stood by, and watched it burn completely to ashes (the Liberia Journal Newspaper, May 2, 2016.)

29. AFCON U17 Nations Cup – Liberia withdraws: Ghana gets walkover. Note: Liberia withdraws for lack of finances (New Democrat Newspaper, June 17, 2016) 30. No money for national ID card project – says project head (Women’s Voices Newspaper, June 16, 2016) AMERICO-LIBERIA’S ONLY SOLUTION APPROACH, OR ITS BIGGEST RESPONSES TO THESE HUGE ECONOMIC WOES THE ONLY SOLUTION APPROACH THAT AMERICO-LIBERIA, especially its current Harvard-trained President and her government officials, just as almost all in the past, have known over the recent years to responding to these disgracefully dire economic problems and acts of negligence, have of course been repeated public warnings of even bleaker and gloomier times ahead, plus a few free talks of austerity that no one ever sees results from.

Here goes a list of some of their key ways of solving economic problems – mere, free talks every time: 1. Ellen tells the Liberian Public, “It’s time for us to tighten our belts for tougher economic times ahead because the prices of rubber and iron ore continue to drop on the world market. (Talk With the President, UNMIL Radio, December 1, 2015) 2. Senator Lawrence [foresees] economic tough times for Liberia (Parrot Newspaper, January 18, 2016)

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3. Senators, in one of their free-talks plenary sessions in January 2016, expressed serious dissatisfaction over how the economy is nose-diving or going bad off (ELBC, January 22, 2016) 4. Ellen recommends austerity measures (In Profile Daily, January 26, 2016) 5. Economy sinks deeper [into trouble] as President Sirleaf discloses major budget cuts (Focus Newspaper, January 26, 2016) 6. Ellen admits hardship (Insight Newspaper, January 2016) 7. The economy is under difficult stress – Ellen tells the nation (Heritage Newspaper, January 26, 2016) 8. Finance Minister Amara Konneh [forewarns] of looming hardship (Public Agenda Newspaper, February 15, 2016) 9. Ellen predicts more hardship, urges officials to work harder…(Women’s Voices Newspaper, April 7, 2016) 10. President Sirleaf again predicts difficult economic times for the country (Farbric FM. News, April 11, 2016) 11. Liberia to experience more budget shortfalls, new Finance Minister asserts (The Focus Newspaper, May 4, 2016) RESULTS FROM ALL THIS These are the results and benefits achieved by Americo-Liberia thus far for her ‘far-sighted’ economic management and general governance, which have produced the level of poverty we’ve been trying to depict above: 1. Deputy Minister for Sectorial Planning at the Ministry of Planning & Economic Affairs disclosed in 2014 how at some development conference he had just attended in Bonn, Germany, 194 year-old Liberia was conspicuously seated in the group labelled by the Conference as “the Least Developed Countries of the World”, or LDCs (ELBC, June 16, 2014) 2. Radio Veritas reports that the IMF (International Monetary Fund), in one of its recent reports describes Liberia as a country continuously plagued with natural resource curse due to very poor governance. (Veritas News, March 20, 2015) 3. In late May 2016, VP Boakai and a huge Americo-Liberian Government delegation were in Istanbul, Turkey, attending the World Humanitarian Summit for Least Developed Countries – the spot in national existence where Liberia’s part of ‘gods’ destined her to remain forever. (ELBC, May 25, 2016)

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4. Liberia is now been ranked the second poorest country in Africa and the 5 th poorest in the world (In Profile Daily Newspaper, March 28, 2016) OTHER REGULAR UPDATES DEPICTING THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC REALITIES ARE AS FOLLOWS: 5. China Union at the verge of collapse, additional 19 employees laid off again – (Parrot Newspaper, January 18, 2016) 6. Sallala Rubber Corporation to lay off 108 employees [for tough economic times] (The New Republic Newspaper, March 24, 2016) 7. The Foundation For International Dignity says Liberia is responsible for her own economic mess (Farbric FM. News, January 27, 2016) 8. The Central Bank of Liberia Governor, Dr. J. Mills Jones, apparently fed up with his country’s extreme “economic addiction” to begging and only begging, is quoted by the Frontier Newspaper’s February 9, 2016 edition as saying, “No Nation Develops from begging” 9. The Hot Pepper Newspaper carries a story in its February 10, 2016 edition titled, “[Liberian] Government spending habits obstruct economic growth” 10. Ellen explains budget shortfall - (the (Inquirer Newspaper, February 19, 2016) 11. Sallala Rubber Company plans to sack over 300 employees, embarks on stopping tapping (Informer Newspaper, March 4, 2016) 12. APM Terminal kills Liberia’s economy – gives jobs to Ghanaians [instead of Liberians] – the Daily Guide Newspaper, March 24, 2016 13. Cocopa to layoff 400 employees (Women Voices Newspaper, April 7, 2016) 14. In response to government’s decision to privatize primary education, the Focus Newspaper asks in one of its editorials, “If the government cannot handle primary education, now can we trust it to handle tertiary education?” (April 11, 2016)

SHOCKS Apart from the other results and ‘negative achievements’ above, citizens of Liberia have no social and economic shock absorbers. So in this country for instance, when a major health problem hits a family, other than the 1% that are enjoying the enormous spoils of corruption in this place, the other option left is to rush to a radio station or a newspaper outlet and launch an SOS call for help. Here are a few drops in the ocean of harsh social security and social insurance realities in this place in addition to the countless SOS calls that families make here on a daily basis, with the below batch recorded in just a short period of time:

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1. Liberian Economist Sam Jackson laments his country’s plight as having no disaster management agenda, and just no shock absorbing mechanisms at both the levels of the government and of private individuals, and that Liberia is the world’s most food insecure country (Costa Show, Voice FM, August 5, 2014) 2. At a big dump site in Buchana, Grand Bassa County, which the locals refer to as “Gbehzongar Findley Supermarket”, men, women and children, had for some time been earning their daily bread by scavenging from the wastes of especially concession workers and UN expats, according a local journalist. (Farbric FM. January 26, 2015) 3. Maxwell Miller, a 29 year-old 2009 graduate of Cuttington University and resident of the Duport Road Community in Paynesville launches an SOS call to get treatment for liver cancer (Farbric FM. February 13, 2015) 4. Rufus Bargan sends out SOS call for his friend ‘Boscow Duartey’ to get medical attention for burns Mr. Duartey had sustained at a gas filling station in Monrovia (Farbric FM. March 16, 2015) 5. Janet Zoryea, 32, sends out an SOS call for help to tackle eye cancer she’s been diagnosed of at the JFK Medical Center (ELBC, March 20, 2015) 6. Sylvester Kamara of Gbarpolu County places an SOS call to get treated for an abnormally swollen leg (ELBC, April 5, 2015) 7. Patrick Bricks, a traditional officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, puts out an SOS call to get treated for wounds sustained at the hands of an angry mob he calls traditional hooligans (Farbric FM News, April 13, 2015) 8. Mr. Augustine Gborngorlee of the Pipeline Community in Paynesville sends out an SOS call to get treated for a prolonged, strange health condition that has stolen away his appetite for food (ELBC, December 22, 2015) 9. Because of acute poverty and hunger in the country, a 13 year old boy who tantalizingly stole pieces of biscuits from Bangladeshi UNMIL personnel’s car was unmercifully flogged to the point of helplessness, and he probably died at the JFK Medical Center after been transferred there by the Phebe Hospital (ELBC, January 25, 2016) 10. International Red Cross Society constructs shelter for some 1,000 homeless fire victims in Grand Bassa County (Local Radio News, February 23, 2016) 11. [SOS call out for] US$500 to save 28 year-old liver problem victim (In Profile Daily, April 12, 2016) 12. Caustic Soda victim’s family makes SOS call (Women Voices Newspaper, April 12, 2016)

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13. Man, [Steven Vincent], with acute liver problem sends out SOS call (Liberia Journal, May 2, 2016) 14. Already disabled Oscar Cooper, not the Senator, places out SOS call to help treat sore in his heart (Farbric FM. March 24, 2016) 15. 12 year-old Foday Sheriff’s parents launch an SOS call for help to treat their son of diagnosed eye cancer (ELBC, July 20, 2015) 16. Rebecca Reeves launches SOS call for the treatment of her illed 29 year old son (ELBC, May 18, 2016) 17. Heavy rainfall renders 200 persons homeless in Grand Bassa County, and they gathered before the house of Rep. Gabriel B. Smith to get assistance (ELBC, May 17, 2016) 18. Boy, 9, with sex organ problem needs help. He’s Darlington Weah (Inquirer Newspaper, May 18, 2016) 19. Boy, 5, (Steven Patrick), battles with strange disease – parents send out SOS call to Ellen, Others (Insight Newspaper, May 3, 2016) 20. Hunger hits school of the blind in Ganta (ELBC, June 15, 2016) 21. Disabled people in Buchana suffer acute hunger – launch SOS call for help (Women’s Voices Newspaper, June 27, 2016) 22. Hot water burns two in Gardnersville – victims send out SOS call for help (Informer Newspaper, June 27, 2016) The big, open secrets behind all this dismal performance and massive state failure of Americo-Liberia in all spheres of life, including economics follow in the immediate sections Every legitimate and serious country is established to develop, cherish and seek the best out of life for each of its citizens – NOT only its government officials and relatives – or not just a few for that matter, who will put themselves into a small criminal social class and impose themselves upon the rest of society as the masters and keep the balance 99+% of the citizens as their perpetual slaves, who deserve nothing good out of life. This vice of ETHNOCENTRISM has been Liberia’s age-old curse from which almost all of its woes have derived since its fake establishment in 1822, and continues in different, more exacerbated shades and proportions up to this 2017. So as we will try to break down below, this ethnocentrism has been able to lead up to a couple of other related vices, the three most crippling ones – up to this 2017, of which we will endeavor to elaborate on here as follows: (a) the Unspeakable Suppression and Marginalization of the Natives; (b) An established societal culture by which government and its operatives generally treat citizens very cruelly

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and abnormally; and (c) A societal culture by which most of the so-called political and opinion leaders just openly insult citizens like their pets and domesticated animals.

As a result of these and many more vices, which form the very foundation of this country, Liberia is never stable; its fragile peace, often sustained temporarily by external actors, normally lasts for a maximum of 5 to 10 years or so, after which the country is sadly back to hostilities.

To prove these arguments, as the United Nations has been in this country for almost 15 years now, sustaining peace, and virtually helping to run government with Americo-Liberian leader, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, here are the country’s accounts of its current involvements with the 3 highlighted vices above, and how such practices, compounded by its very criminally carless economic governance, whose fruits we have dealt with enough above, have all driven Liberia back at the brink of a very imminent civil disorder and bloodbath again, just at the time the United Nations is taking its exit after having invested over US$50 billion of foreign tax payers’ monies trying to stabilize this DULL, LAZY, and CRUEL Black American colony.

We now start with the sustained suppression and marginalization of the Natives, then next, to some accounts of how generally wicked the country is to its own people, and then finally, we will move on to feature some of the insults that citizens receive at the hands of their political and opinion leaders here on a daily basis. We will then conclude this section with numerous empirical accounts of the signs of danger that the country now faces as a result of all this; and finally, a proposal of which actions are now required of all citizens for us to get rid of this NASTY 194 year Americo-Liberian dominance chapter and its scourges, and start on a new page as a people, God willing: (A) MASSIVE SUPPRESSION AND MARGINALIZATION OF THE NATIVES As it has always been the case since 1822, the Natives of this country continue to remain subjects of Americo-Liberian suppression and marginalization, which up to this point happen in different forms, including the use of our people in scientific tests, the broad day selective justice consistently being meted out against our Native elements, the treatment of our huge indigenous population like domesticated pets and wild animals etc. at even exacerbated rates. This spells more of imminent DANGER. Let’s give a few, very fresh examples here: 1. Tribal 16 year old lad, Shackie Kamara of the slum community of West Point in Monrovia, was carelessly murdered by the colonial Armed Forces of Americo-Liberia or AFL, as their track record has been, beginning with their deadly Liberia Frontier Force, against our Native population. With respect to the incident that led to the wrongful killing of this native child, in November 2014, the Independent National Human Rights Commission of Liberia, after their investigations, blamed the government for the death

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of this innocent child and the psychological pains suffered by the people of West Point at the hands of the GOL and their AFL, and instructed the President, on behalf of their government, to apologize to the Shackie Kamara’s family, pay some monetary reparations to the family, and fly one of the critical living victims of this criminal negligence, Titus Noah, out of the country for advanced medical attention. (ELBC, November 2014). Note: Pained by these recommendations, and feeling belittled as an Americo-Liberian President to swoop to the point of apologizing and paying reparations to a Native Shackie Kamara’s family and the “Native Savages” at West Point, Ellen downplayed this authoritative November 2014 recommendation of the Commission for almost 1 whole year, then in September 2015, after much international pressure reportedly, she reluctantly goes to give the Shackie Kamara’s family US$15,000, as this recommended reparation that the commission had instructed her to pay for her army’s negligence that took away this child’s life in August 2014. That $15,000 looked so big in the eyes of this Americo-Liberian President, as if she would have EVER, in this life, accepted someone killing one of her 4 sons, even out of mistake, to hand her $15,000; or, as if this amount could have been given to her parents in the past to pay for her own life, if someone had mistakenly harmed her while she was a child, although life we know, is priceless. Ellen also demonstrated her conviction that Shackie was so insignificant that he could never have one day too gotten some opportunity to attend Harvard University to acquire his part of Master’s in Public Administration like her, if his life was not negligently taken away by her forces of suppression and repression (ELBC, September 25, 2015). For Titus Noah, the most critical survivor of this incident, from whose stomach AFL bullets were extracted, and whom the commission had recommended his being flown out of the country for advanced medical attention apart from him deserving some monetary reparation, the government categorically refused to fly him out, and it is never clear whether he ever received anything tangible from Government. This touched Native George Weah so much from the beginning that he had to hand a US$2,000 check to his fellow aboriginal Titus Noah for some care (Sky F.M. October 21, 2014).

2. Instances of the relegation of the Natives to non-entities filter in daily, in different forms in this criminal Black American Colony called Liberia. Most of the big name Christian Schools in this place were established by American entities directly, or by AmericoLiberians, but the Islamic Faith is practiced almost entirely among the Natives here, so Islamic schools in Liberia are owned and run by Native elements as such. An authority of the National Imam Council of Liberia, Mr. Ali Krayee, speaking to Farbric FM Radio in March 2016 disclosed how, in addition to the excessive accounts of other forms of marginalization that Muslims have, and continue to endure here, Christian Schools get hundreds of thousands of US Dollars as subsidies, but all Islamic Schools put together, can’t even get up to $25,000 in subsidies from government (Farbric FM. March 1, 2016) 3. Andrew Ngorno, of the Ducor Community, victim of Americo-Liberian paid agent, Mary Broh’s ruthless and visionless destruction of people’s homes and poor business centers in

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the name of beautifying dirty 1822 Monrovia to be like New York, claim that top Liberian Government Officials have a strong notion that tribal people don’t deserve living in some parts of Monrovia, like their community, the Ducor Rocky Hill Community (Farbric FM. November 12, 2015) 4. There is no record in this country’s 194 year history that it ever struck any good concession agreement for the benefit of the country, and especially the people of immediate concessions-affected communities, most openly beginning with J.J. Cheeseman’s 1894 rubber concession deal with British firm, Monrovia Rubber Company, to Firestone’s 1926 raw deal, to all of the criminal iron deals brokered here by the Americo-Liberian criminal elites etc., and coming up to date, with all concession deals signed in the country thus far, according to multiple sources, including the books, “In the Cause of the People” by Prof. Tuan Wleh, “A Short History of the First Liberian Republic” by Dr. Joseph Saye Guannue, www.alhajikromahpage.org/alhajifirestone.htm, Reports of British integrity institutions such as the Publish What You Pay Coalition, Global Witness, in addition to empirical realities on ground. In fact, Americo-Liberians use these concession agreements, apart from clearly pillaging the country’s resources along with their foreign capitalists, to also wreak terrible havoc on the already devastated, poor, defenseless, and innocent indigenous people that directly live in concessions-affected communities. With our poor Native people starting to take little notice of these painfully excruciating exploitations, to take actions for their rights, the only redress that the Americo-Liberian Government has accorded them thus far is to be locking us up in long jail sentences and sometimes keeping us indefinitely locked up in pretrial detention, even though they quite know that the first fault lies with them , the socalled government. Here are two notable examples: a) After many complaints of feeling criminally exploited by the Government of Liberia and her Arcellor Mittal Iron Ore Mining Company in Nimba County reportedly went unattended to childishly – as is always the case in this country – the community dwellers went on the rampage in some civil disobedient action to seek redress, as any civic-aware people would do. In the process, ever-revengeful or reprisal seeking Americo-Liberian security forces responded heavy-handedly and the situation went out of control, with some property getting destroyed and no life lost however. At the end of the day, the predominantly-criminal Black American Court system, ignored the side of the Government, grabbed 12 of the poor community dwellers, our always badly treated Native brothers and sisters, and locked them up for 10 years (Daily Observer Newspaper, August 15, 2015). Note: Our people took their civic action sometime in 2014, and the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Grand Bassa County brought down this guilty verdict against them on April 6, 2015. b) Aggrieved youths, again, of our always exploited tribal people of this country, staged a peaceful protest in Butaw, Sinoe County on May 26, 2015, to find answers from Golden Veroleum Liberia for how they feel badly exploited of their own resources and

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livelihoods by this company. After some reported sabotage by government officials, tensions flared, and as usual, the Americo-Liberia Reprisal Machine, called security forces, came in and added fuel to the already simmering flames, resulting to a few property damage; once again, without any loss of life. At the end of the day, as expected, disregarding the fact that the government and their Golden Veroleum are on both domestic and international records as the first offenders for how they have massively abused and economically dispossessed the poor tribal people of Sinoe County in this deal, these ever-cruel people have gone ahead to lock over 20 tribal Sinoians in pretrial detention for over one year now, with some reportedly dead due to the harsh conditions at the prison (www.news.yahoo.com; www.thenewdawnliberia.com, June 2, 2015 etc. ).

Note: The raw fact of the matter here is that no ‘pioneer’ child, or true AmericoLiberian child or element would ever be treated like this in Americo-Liberia, even it’s proven they went wrong.

Similar discontentment over how we continue to be robbed of our valuable resources in the name of concession deals in this place have also been reported in the concessional areas of Sime Darby in Grand Cape Mon County and Bomi County, the Equatorial Palm Oil Concession in Grand Bassa County, the China Union Concession Areas in Bong and Margibi Counties etc., but we are not quite abreast of the fate of the protestors in each of these struggles, although it is very clear that these developments are very dangerous time bombs that could still explode in the future if we don’t take the right actions to peacefully take over our country – meaning the 16 indigenous ethnic groups of this land – to redesign it for the benefit of all. Let’s be categorically clear here that AmericoLiberians are ABSOLUTELY non-leadership, non-managerial, and non-governmental materials” Period!!! They are a terrible set of “Jonahs” on our public sector ship in this country.

5. The Colonial National Police of Americo-Liberia has always been having some serious internal problems, especially at the top. When these embarrassments or complaints reach the public’s attention, the Americo-Liberian President is constrained to act. In just one of many instances, when complaints against pure pioneer’s child Madam Rose Stryker, intensified some time ago, President Sirleaf, with heavy heart, only reshuffled her to another top government portfolio, according to government sources, but when similar fate befell names like Col. Abraham Kromah, Samuel Nimely, Phil Tougbaye etc., they were reportedly dismissed from government, just as living witnesses include Rixck Barsi Giah, Jeddi Armah, Thomas Kaydor, Michael Wah, Mohammed Passawe, among others.

For these are names that deserve easy, quick disgrace and firing in this place, and not names like the Strykers, Williams, McClains, Weeks etc. (ELBC, May 1, 2015, Farbric FM. May 1, 2015, others).

Electronic and Print Media headlines highlighting this one-sided justice phenomenon are numerous, including the few listed below:

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6. A local county official, Mr. Sylvester Wellehteh of Bong County has been convicted by the Americo-Liberian courts for corruption and asked to restitute US$44,000. He was also been fined an initial US$1,000 to be paid immediately (ELBC, January 22, 2016).

Note: It’s very easy to hand down judgment against a Wellehteh in Liberia than for example a Urey, or a McDonald, as usal.

7. A 30 year old man sentenced for 1 year in “Grand Kru County” for dealing in counterfeit US$100. (Farbric FM, March 2016). Note: This is most probably a Native, as no true Americo-Liberian can ever receive punishment for something like this here.

8. Another Native, Junior Ballah, sentenced to death by hanging in Lofa County for “murder” (Heritage Newspaper, April 28, 2015). *As usual, only Natives can commit crimes in this country.

9. In June 2015, Americo-Liberian Criminal Court A sentenced Native Motorcyclist Eric Bentou to 4 years imprisonment for “aggravated assault” against Americo-Liberian police officer David Frank (The News Newspaper, June 24, 2015) 10. Americo-Liberian Criminal Court D sentences Native Wesley Jlue to 5 years imprisonment for what it calls Jlue’s stealing of US$179,183.06 from the National Drugs Service’s account (Liberia News Agency, January 12, 2016). *No one supports Jlue for stealing, if he really did, but to leave names like Urey, (NOCAL), Tyler (Legislature), Lawrence (Legislature), and the likes, going scot-free for relatively proven insincerity with tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of US Dollars, just to rush at poor Jlue, only because he’s a Native, less-connected person in their Americo-Liberian Society, and jailing him for 5 years is one of the most iniquitous examples of this Native Suppression tale in this place.

11. The Forestry Development Authority is run by a management team, overseen by a Board of Directors, who are all in turn supervised by the President, head of the Executive, and this entire chain is superintended by the National Legislature. The business of issuing out Private-Used Permits (PUPs) to logging companies is a process that goes through a chain of activities and facilitated by different signatories, punctuated by the Board of Directors’ signature, according to unimpeachable sources. But in the midst of all this reality, the Americo-Liberian Government, through their Criminal Court C, in April 2015 commenced a trial against the mainly Native elements of Moses Wogbeh (Managing Director, who the President had earlier sacked for this same allegation that we are concerned about here), John Kamara, David Blayee, Maxwell Gwee etc. – all lowerlevel personnel of government for what they claimed as these subjects’ illegal issuance of 56 private used permits to logging companies over an appreciable period of time in contravention of some so-called Community Rights Law. Government said this action of Mr. Wogbeh and others led to them (government) losing US$6 million. At the end of the day, these Natives were later sentenced to ten years imprisonment (www.allafrica.com, August 26, 2015; Local Daily, September 1, 2015, “Judge Reverses Guilty Decision

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etc.), without any reference made to their superintendents – i.e. the Americo-Liberian Board Chairman, Agriculture Minister Florence Chenoweth, the Americo-Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has been very desperate to sell off all of Liberia’s remaining forest products to the point that the Norwegian Government had to come in, during the month of September 2014, giving US$150 million to the Liberian Government to stop STUPIDLY exhausting her own forest resources at one time, and of course the Americo-Liberian Legislature, overseeing all this. Meanwhile, FDA still operates, but the country’s seemingly illustrious National Oil Company (NOCAL) was devastated and prematurely broken down by the proven corruption and mismanagement of the McClains, the Shermans, the Parkers, and the son of the Americo-Liberian President – something she herself confirmed and took responsibility of, but today, no one is behind bars for stealing and mismanaging tens and hundreds of millions of US Dollars at NOCAL and breaking the company down, while also damaging the country’s promising oil and gas sector well in advance, and shattering the economy so massively (Daily Observer Newspaper, June 23, 2015) 12. The 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Sanniquellie sentences one Albert Sonnii to 40 years imprisonment for rape. Note: only these names can ever commit rape in Liberia, but not names like Hans Williams and others. (ELBC, September 24, 2015) 13. In Gbor Kiza, Zorzor District, Lofa County, a 12 year old pregnant child raped to death.

[This kind of horror can NEVER befall the kids of any original pioneer’s child – meaning children of the Browns, Tubmans, Shermans etc. in this country because they are all criminally well-off economically while our people are subjected by them to scorching poverty and grinding deprivation that make them behave just any foolish ways at times (ELBC, September 28, 2015) 14. 48 year-old Arthur Doryen has been sentenced for life in prison in Sanniquellie on “murder conviction” (ELBC, March 2, 2015). Good, but in the 194 year record of this country’s justice system, besides the days of Tolbert, it is difficult to establish when a pure Americo-Liberian was ever sentenced this way, although they are always implicated in these and other big crimes too.

15. 10th Judicial Circuit Court sentences Amara Duana to life imprisonment for rape (ELBC, April 6, 2015). Note: These are names that justice doesn’t waste time with in this Black American colony.

16. In June 2014, the Americo-Liberian Government, through her Criminal Court D went ahead and sentenced 13 tribal Grand Gedians for what they claimed as these Grand Gedians’ involvement with mercenary activities in the Ivory Coast. But according to these people’s defense lawyers, the 13 tribal guys were never arrested in Ivory Coast (the alleged crime scene) and turned over to the Americo-Liberian Government; neither were they ever arrested while going to, or coming from Ivory Coast with arms/ammunitions, nor is there any proof that they were arrested by the Ivorian Government and turned over

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to the Americo-Liberian Government based on some bilateral or diplomatic agreement whatsoever; or even, some proof that the Ivorian Government had prepared names and requested Liberia to help bring to justice on their behalf etc. But the ever vengeanceseeking Americo-Liberian Government went ahead and crept on these poor guys in their villages and rudely separated them from loved ones and family members just to bring them to Monrovia and jail them for life – for some sinister agenda (Daily Observer 2, 2014; ELBC, June 17, 2014 etc.). The hard fact of the matter is that no ‘original’ Americo-Liberian (the pioneers’ children) will EVER receive this kind of treatment in this place.

17. In August 2014, Criminal Court A brought down guilty verdict against Junior Accountant Pewee Flomo of the National Oil Company (NOCAL) for some US$16,000, sentenced him for 2 years, and asked him to restitute the amount (ELBC, August 27, 2014). Today, the McClains, the Johnsons, the Parkers and the Shermans, and their children have totally broken down that very NOCAL out of gross stealing and mismanagement in the name of CORRUPTION and no one is in jail, but the President openly announces, as we mentioned earlier on, that she is responsible for shipwrecking the company, and then she further orders the payment of handsome retirement benefits to her accomplices, the company’s top management team of the McClains and Shermans for helping her in the process of bankrupting NOCAL and damaging the lucrative oil industry or sector well in advance. (Truth FM. August 31, 2015, ELBC, August 25, 2015 etc.)

18. A 65 year-old school principal in Telegboe Town, Rivergee County, one Mr. Klado Kaiyee, receives life sentence for what the Americo-Liberian Courts call his kidnapping of a child (although they say the child was unfortunately found dead) (Local Radio News, September 2, 2014). Note: While no one is supporting crime, but we wish the Americo-Liberian Courts could be treating all evil doers this same way, and not the poor Klaiyees alone.

Other Newspaper headings of similar things include: 19. Marginalization in Sinoe, citizens claim (Focus Newspaper, February 23, 2016) 20. Death by hanging, 13th Judicial Circuit Court sentences two (New Republic Newspaper, February 25, 2016) etc. and etc.

With this, fellow citizens and all, alike, needless to delve any much deeper into similar issues always raised in US State Department reports on this country, as the first line alone in each of these reports is enough to validate almost everything we have claimed here – although more of them follow below.

(B) A COUNTRY VERY WICKED TO ITS OWN PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE ORDINARY PEOPLE, OWING TO ITS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION, AND AS A SPILLOVER EFFECT OF EXTREMELY HATING THE NATIVES, WHO ARE IN VERY HUGE MAJORITY

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Because of the Americo-Liberians’ EXTREME hatred for the Natives, who form more than 99% of the population of this country, and because of the inherently cruel and criminal pedigree of the Americo-Liberian ethnic group, which is in almost complete control of the Liberian society, the human rights situation and general human behaviors towards one another, especially, the way the Americo-Liberian machine called Government, set up to terrorize and dehumanize the Natives, treats human beings, in this place is similar to a society of animals and not humans – with all due respect to our always suffering Tribal people. Just as the US Congress predicted 199 years ago, and as key Congressmen like John Randolph of Virginia and Henry Clay of Kentucky stressed with vigor, the society that their unwanted Blacks, the Johnsons, Tubmans, McClains, King and Bernards established here is so mischievous beyond description, and the very HATED Natives continue to bear the brunt of this mischief, as they have also been criminally enticed with their own resources, and made to join the Americo-Liberians to work against their own people. So, human beings; mainly the ordinary people, are treated like animals, and this trend is exacerbated by the day as technology and sophistications improve. To summarize again, because of the coming together of these two unfortunate scenarios (i.e. the hated group constitutes over 99% of society, and the hating group and power wielders of society, is in very small number), this pretty few (less than 1%) American Black elites plus a small set of Native loyalists and ‘contractors’ – placed under the canopy of a so-called national government – have just been, and continue to wreak untold havoc on the larger population in different forms under the pretext of running government. Here are a few proofs of the cruelty and “aggravated” mischief, according Hezekiah Nile’s Weekly Register’s edition of April 12, 1817, orchestrated in this society on a daily basis, directly and sometimes indirectly against the larger ordinary human population: 1. In 2014 during Liberia’s so-called Ebola crisis, the government pleaded with civil servants to stay home in their thousands to avoid spread of this virus due to crowdedness. A few months into their stay at home, and still during the pandemic, government, through the Civil Service Director, announced a well-coordinated plan, approved by the President, to lay off all those obedient workers in their thousands.

Fortunately for these poor, predominantly Native Civil Servants, the Americo-Liberians’ much talked about Special Senatorial Elections were in the corner, with a good number of sitting Senators vying for re-election, and so some senators intervened and saved these poor, civil servants their bread-winning jobs (Radio Veritas, ELBC and Sky FM,.

October 2014) 2. In August 2014, during the heat of the reportedly American genetically engineered filo virus try outs in Liberia under the canopy of some Ebola pandemic, while hospitals were closed mainly due to lack of drugs and sophisticated implements; and while government had made it crystal clear to the world that it could not afford even rubber gloves, sanitizers and the likes for its health workers, as ordinary citizens trapped up in the crisis die in their hundreds from hunger and others, the Americo-Liberian President

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commissioned a hundreds of thousands of US Dollars military crackdown on the poor, Native slum community of West Point, officially killing one person in the process, critically wounding some, and causing them huge physical and psychological agonies.

The Independent National Human Rights Commission of Liberia acknowledged these acts of cruelty, investigated them, and formally requested remedial actions from the government, including apologies and reparation payments. (ELBC, November 2014, others).

3. American-profit seeking elements, with their usual insider agents within the Liberian Government started going ahead without any formal notice, to both the public and the so-called governing authority of the country, in late 2014 to early 2015, to administer some test vaccines to healthy Liberians in the name of some PREVAIL project. Senator Jewel Howard Taylor and Rep. Gabriel B. Smith blew alarm at this criminal scheme describing it as “People using Liberian citizens as Guinea Pigs.” (Farbric FM. February 3, 2015 etc.)

4. While other countries are working around the clock to cater for all their citizens at every level by doing such things as improving general standards of living through mechanisms like the implementation of enhanced social insurance and social protection programs – especially in helping them achieve their SDG obligations to citizens, while also strengthening their economies inter alia, Americo-Liberia, in 2015 decided to close down and dissolve such key institutions as the National Insurance Company, the National Food Assistance Program, the Liberia Produce Marketing Association, and the Bureau of State Enterprises, among others. This of course is a country that keeps crying about a dysfunctional economy. (Radio Veritas, June 5, 2015) 5. Dr. Francis Kollie of Prison Fellowship Liberia Network expresses his deepest frustrations at the Liberian Government’s inability or refusal to rehabilitate prisoners across the country; claiming, prisoners are made to languish in deplorable conditions in detention centers across the country, without being rehabilitated when it is their due right to be rehabilitated. (Local Radio News, April 1, 2015) 6. In ‘Datoquen’ Town, Rivergee County, an Americo-Liberian Drug Enforcement Agency officer reportedly kills a physically challenged man, one Darlington, for allegedly refusing to locate drugs that the DEA officer claims he was in pursuit of Darlington’s housemate for. (ELBC, April 10, 2015) 7. Congress for Democratic Change’s Vice President for Operations, Mulbah Morlu claims that the Liberian Government and its operatives squarely hate the ordinary citizens of the country. He calls this culture “misanthropy.” (Farbric FM. April 28, 2015) 8. Grand Kru County Senator Albert Chea expresses regrets and disappointments about how in all of the concession deals entered into by this Americo-Liberian Government

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thus far, especially the oil concessions, there are ABSOLUTELY no benefits specified for the affected local communities and community dwellers (ELBC, April 29, 2015) 9. UNICEF Child & Maternal Health Goodwill Ambassador Miatta Fahnbulleh complains that while there are virtually no sound health centers outside of Monrovia, and pregnant women die all across the country for the lack of these facilities, the EU gave out a grant of US$13 million for Liberia to develop this sector and no one can now account for this money (ELBC, April 8, 2015) 10. The Lands, Mines & Energy Ministry authorities and those of the Liberia Electricity Corporation instructed USAID never to help one Rev. Gittens, a wheelchair entrepreneur supplying electricity through generators to around 45,000 persons within 6 different neighborhoods in the Rock Hill Community in Paynesville, with the funding he (Rev. Gittens) had applied for, met the criteria for, to improve and expand his services (Harry Greaves, Farbric New Dawn, September 17, 2015) 11. Because of the terrible lack of jobs in the country, which the larger tribal people bear the brunt of, thousands of youths have turned to motorbike riding for survival; wherein, after a whole day or half a day’s work (since some of them are students), these sons of the Yarkwolos and Dolos take a few dollars home to keep their families going the next day.

Around July 2015, the Americo-Liberian authorities obligated all bike riders to pay US$100 for plate and another US$100 for insurance, for a total fees payable of US$200, which the government mandated the police to enforce, with a deadline set for July 15, 2015, just a week or two, after which these suffering guys’ bikes would be impounded.

(Farbric FM, July 2, 2015) 12. Just as her criminal Americo-Liberian predecessors such as Stephen A. Benson, Joseph J. Cheeseman, Daniel Howard, Arthur Barclay, Charles King, William Tubman and the likes wickedly sold our people out into slavery, domestic and commercial forced labor, and different kinds of serfdoms, while also dispossessing our poor Native people of their lands and means of livelihoods, sometimes forever, Ellen upon taking office embarked upon the same campaign – both crudely in some respects, and cunningly in other respects. The UK-based integrity group, Global Witness, in July 2015, brought up its assessment reports on one of Liberia’s biggest Agricultural concessions, the Golden Veroleum, in which it established how the Liberian Government does not care for its own citizens, and continues to take painful, deadly and undue advantage of its people under the canopy of signing concession deals, zooming in on this Golden Veroleum deal.

The report entitled, “The New Snake Oil: [How] Violence, Threats, and False Promises [Are] At The Heart Of Liberia’s Oil Palm Expansion” paints Ellen Sirleaf as a hoax, meaning a crook, claiming to have miraculous healing solutions to Liberia’s problems, but that the Liberians will soon, after she had already done the damage, find out later that she was a big con artist and criminal that had duped them in reality. For example, this concession, with a 350,000 hectare Area of Interest, that spans across 4 of Liberia’s South Eastern counties of Rivercess, Sinoe, Grand Kru, and River Gee, currently affects

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41,000 persons’ lives in its immediate area of operations thus far, and the concession is initially valid for 65 years up to 2075, with a provision to extend for 33 years again, up to 2108. Under some of the memorandums of understanding pertaining to this 98 year deal, which will affect up to 5 generations of mainly indigenous peoples, the company will actually provide non-employed community members with little – slightly more than 6 toilets (pit latrines) – over that which the company was already obligated to provide under its agreement with the government, which no one will ever know authoritatively in this country. But on the road to all this, in addition to the insults, has been the company’s use of government officials to take raw reprisal actions against any citizens that oppose, question, or resist any of its (Golden Veroleum’s) moves. In response to these deadly claims, Americo-Liberia Information Minister Lewis Brown says the report is false and does not synchronize with any existing reality in the country (Farbric FM. July 31, 2015) 13. Cllr. Dempster Brown of the Center for the Protection of Human Rights said, on the 27 th of May 2015 that over 20 persons were rounded up by the Americo-Liberian National Police and jailed in Sinoe County on 9 charges, including arm robbery. He said the victims are people who were merely protesting for their own, legitimate rights, but government, through the police, mischievously decided to include arm robbery among the charges levied against these people, just to deny them bill and keep them in jail indefinitely because arm robbery is a first degree felony and is unbillable. Mr. Brown said the conditions of these people in the cell is deteriorating daily, to the extent that one of them, Fred Thompson, has been tortured to death. He said that one lady whose twin sons are among the illegal detainees dropped and died instantly before the prison facility when authorities denied her of her due right to see her two children. Cllr. Brown further said that some government officials, including the county superintendent are behind the ill-treatment of their own citizens. He said that these local officials are now in the business of collecting money from the communities in the name of some bond fees to free their kinsmen (ELBC, or Farbric FM, August 19, 2015) 14. Cllr. Thompson ‘Ade Bayo’, head of a local watch group, speaking on the conditions of Liberian prisons, especially after visiting the Monrovia Central Prison, expressed these observations as follows: (a) Liberian prisons are a place where people (inmates) prefer death to life; prisons here are virtual chambers of death rather than correction centers; they are a place where people are chained like during slave days, and at present, over 700 inmates are there under pre-trial detention – some for between 2 to 5 years now (ELBC, August 18, 2015) 15. Court Authorities in Grand Cape Mount County, [similar to those in Monrovia and elsewhere in the country] complain how courts in the county were incarcerating too many persons beyond the capacity of the prison facilities by unprofessionally issuing out more writs of arrests in simple issues that only warrant writs of summon (ELBC, August 2015)

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16. Almost every drug in the country is beyond its expiration date (Health Ministry sources, National Drugs Service, US Embassy Sources etc.); the entire country lacks electricity and pipe borne water; there are almost ABSOLUTELY no public transport facilities; the entire 43,000 square mile country has foolishly less than 300 miles of paved one-lane roads etc., yet and still, Americo-Liberian paid agent, Tolbert Nyensuah, Assistant Minister of Health for Preventive Services, goes to New York, stands there, and tells the whole world that by 2015, life expectancy in Liberia has dramatically risen by an additional 20 years. What a mischief to the highest degree ever imaginable (ELBC, September 25, 2015) 17. Hon. Bhofal Chambers expresses deep frustrations at how pretrial detainees and other inmates go languishing unattended to, in Liberian prisons (ELBC, October 6, 2015) 18. Judge Blamo Dixon of Criminal Court C complains about how fellow colleagues, especially magistrates, illegally deliberately refuse citizens their due right to bond (ELBC, November 10, 2015) 19. UNMIL Rule of Law Officer in Margibi County complains of troubling prison conditions there. According to the officer, the two major prisons in Margibi, the Kakata Central Prison and the Bodowein Prison were overcrowded by almost 100%, each above their original capacity, with majority of the inmates being pretrial detainees (ELBC, November 10, 2015) 20. Rufus Zayzay, father of late 21-year-old mysteriously-found-dead Victoria Zayzay claims his daughter was raped and strangled to death [by the Americo-Liberian National Police]. She had died in police cell while under detention for alleged assault in her neighborhood. (Farbric FM., November 12, 2015) 21. Sime Darbe is one of the biggest Palm concessions in Liberia, covering more than two counties of the country, and spanning over 70 years as the Golden Veroleum too, that no one explicitly knows what citizens, mainly the Natives again, stand to benefit from too.

Sometime in 2015, a careless fire incident, specifically a chemical explosion took place there that reportedly killed a few persons and wounded several. An inter-ministerial committee investigated the incident and made several recommendations to both the government and the concession company to be immediately implemented in repairing the damage and averting future ones, including taking survivors out of the country for advanced treatment, training handlers of chemicals before the resumption of any operations involving chemicals; providing school buses for school going children within the concession areas etc. But Charles Brown, a youth leader of the county expressed his disappointment about how, long months after these strong recommendations had been made, the government and the company had done nothing, even for the direct and immediate victims, but that the company was carrying on its normal operations as if nothing was pending to be taken care of (Farbric FM, November 12, 2015)

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22. Ellen mockingly and cruelly boasts of her government’s belief in the equal rights of all the citizens, and also equal opportunities for everyone. She says this is the reason why Liberia now enjoys 12 years of peace – implicitly disregarding UNMIL’s efforts and all the complaints from her courts and other places about the untold plight of the people when it comes to the issue of lack of justice. (ELBC, November 23, 2015) 23. Bong County Representative George Mulbah has said that because of Liberia’s unwillingness to punish certain people according to laws on the books, just for the sake of satisfying some foreign interests, foreigners now flock unrestricted into the country to harvest human blood freely, thus “making our people to now live in constant fear”, in his words. He further suggested that government herself demonstrates her complicity in the wasting of our people’s blood, in that, when these ritualistic killings go on, those arrested for the act are normally placed behind bars for very short time, just to divert public attention, and while they are in custody, they are even fed with the best of meals thrice a day, after which they are shortly released (Farbric FM. November 24, 2015) 24. The Ministry of Health had accused the National Drugs Service of possessing expired drugs in the tone of US$9.7 million, but the NDS denied. (ELBC, December 4, 2015).

However, just a week or so later, the truth of the matter was established, and the Health Ministry and the Liberia Medical and Health Regulatory Agency (LMHA) were heard burning expired drugs worth over US$9 million (Farbric FM. December 21, 2015) 25. Mr. Soko Sackor laments how around 4,000 ships fly Liberia’s flag but far less than 500 citizens from the country are employed in the shipping industry (ELBC, December 15, 2015) 26. ‘Liberia: Police Officer disrobed, Cabbie arrested for L$30 bribe’ (FrontPage Africa Newspaper, May 22, 2014). In this story, interestingly, a police director who had been caught broad day facilitating the escape of an indicted criminal, in addition to his having been officially slammed by a vote of no confidence from the Legislature, but not will leave office because men are above the laws here, fires two newly trained police officers (in persons of Humphrey Karn and Varnie Massallay) for alleged $0.16 bribe taking and solicitation.

27. Mark Willie, from the Monrovia Central Prison says, prisoners and detainees there eat once a day at around 4 p.m. – just anything, and drugs given them are mainly expired (Love FM. August 2014) 28. The Government of Liberia claims it acquired through Eminent Domain in the 1960s 1,000 acres of land in the Chickensoup Factory Community in Gardnersville, in suburban Monrovia to be used a mini-industrial site. But several factors, capped by the country’s recent civil war, have made the land to be taken over and inhabited by poor citizens, most of which acquired property through some municipal authorities’ approval for over 30 years now. An extremely poverty-stricken country that has no means of even relocating one citizen struck by fire disaster or sea erosion (except may be to do

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something sycophantic at times for political reasons) just jumped up in 2015 and decided to start breaking more than 2,000 homes built by these poor people trying to make ends meet, without any substantial relocation plan, as if their so-called government did not have control over all of the other lands across the country to build professed new industrial park with foreign money again. As we speak, more than 3,000 persons are still suffering this homelessness being caused them by their Americo-Liberian Government in this process. (Farbric FM. October 27, 2015) 29. Gbarpolu Police detains blind man for alleged corruption [An around L$500 reportedly given this blind man to custode which he had used) (www.liberiannewsagency.org/....

August 27, 2015) (C) A Country whose leaders, political and opinion, just verbally insult citizens broadly – directly or indirectly Again, because a very vast majority of the people of this country are the tribal people or the aborigines, and by virtue of this reality are being kept largely poor, illiterate and ignorant by America and Americo-Liberian colonial maneuvers, under the guise of government policies, this huge chunk of ordinary people (with the indigenous constituting over 98% while a very few ordinary Americo-Liberians make up the rest) is a subject of verbal insults from the mouths of Government officials and opinion leaders, sometimes directly or indirectly. Few examples are as follows: 1. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, appearing as guest on UNMIL Radio’s Talk With the President, December 1, 2015, rained enough insults, as usual, on the population and generally referred to the people at different times of this engagement as either LIARS, VIOLENT PEOPLE, and BAD people etc. For example: (a) when show host Torwon Sullunteh asked, ‘what’s about the too many complaints from different quarters that you are not doing much for the country’, Ellen replied, in the Liberian parlance, “The people who’int got nothing to do; the people who’int got nothing to offer etc. are the ones making all this noise; (b) Addressing concerns about how Liberia is conducting the fight against Ebola that the virus had resurfaced for the 3rd time now, Ellen boasted about the capacity of her government to now tackle the disease, and then insulted the citizenry in this process, as she defended her government by asserting, “Some of the suspected Ebola cases in the ETU don’t even want to leave from there now because they are eating free food [all day]”; (c) Asked about whether her government can handle security as the UN leaves, especially with the prevailing security tensions, uneasiness and concerns, as a result of this UNMIL draw down development, Ellen replies, “The ‘hola hola’ not from UNMIL, it’s coming from Liberians, who are [generally] just bad and violent.”;

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(d) On the issue of her office according child rights advocate’s award winner, Abraham Keita, some cold shoulders, Ellen says, “….they just want to put something in that young boy’s head…..that’s the wickedness of the Liberian people – not even modifying it to say some Liberian people, if that’s what it takes…etc.

2. This same Ellen painted her very ugly perception about the general citizenry of this place sometime in late 2013, at the appreciation ceremony of the Nimba County Land Dispute Commission at the Executive Mansion/Foreign Affairs, when she alluded to Musa Bility’s indictment by the very government for helping in the pillaging of funds at the Roberts International Airport in this way, “…..He always responds to government’s call to take on difficult and strategic assignments, and because of that he sometimes gets all kinds of criticisms and false accusations etc. (www.emansion.gov.lr).

The big perception which Ellen and many others – especially Americo-Liberians harbor about our country’s population (since these are largely made up of the Native people) are that ‘Liberians’ are very bad, and hate good people. Even if their perception contains some element of truth, then what they have failed to do is to use our huge wealth under their complete control to change the situation, which is possible with good and honest leadership, which will see everyone benefiting high quality education and improved economic opportunities, nothing else. To prove Ellen’s hatred or disdain for the vast indigenous population of this country beyond all reasonable doubts, when this President was talking to Torwon Sulonteh of UNMIL Radio on the same show mentioned earlier, i.e. December 1, 2015, she mentioned with frustration, how bulk of the country’s budget goes to paying the civil servants, a group she describes as a bunch of “people who just go to work to play cards behind their desks in government offices”. Remember over 90% of civil servants are the Natives. Still on this show, touching on the standards of living in the country, the President said, Liberians are far better today, their lives have significantly improved….In fact, plenty people own can today, that’s why they complain about traffic in town….Liberian people love car too much, even all my own security people now got car etc. On the issue of the acute lack of basic social services in the country, Ellen argues, “Monrovia is too populated, how will we be able to provide for all these people [in actuality, all these less valuable Native people or Native savages], that’s why we are telling them to go back to the villages to create jobs…” etc.

Note: We could go on listing the barrage of insults that this Americo-Liberian president rains on the vast indigenous majority of this country either directly or indirectly at almost every little occasion that she’s opportune to address us, but we are going to stop here for now.

However, one can imagine an American President standing before the very good and great people of America to use any one of these sarcastic and insulting expressions on them.

What’s about other politicians or opinion leaders? So let’s bring you just a few of what other politicians and opinion leaders say about the general population of the country too:

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3. Speaking at a dedicatory program, at the invitation of Representative Richmond Anderson, for his part of US$68,000 Direct District Development project, Senator Geraldine Doe-Sheriff of Montserrado County, lamented the sad plight of the Liberian people, whom she said “do not even know the functions of their lawmakers due to poverty, and these people expect their lawmakers to be the ones sponsoring their weddings and buying their baby diapers etc. (Farbric FM. January 5, 2016) 4. Addressing the issue of the level of leadership curse in the country, politician Simeon Freeman laments his perceived reason for this deadly problem as citizens’ refusal to vote well, by saying, “You set STUPID criteria like, ‘I will vote for the one who can give me something.’” He said it is this kind of criteria that citizens set for choosing leaders, and this is causing the problem in our country, and not necessarily the leaders themselves, an idea which he got all wrong. (Farbric FM. October 19, 2015) 5. Robert Sirleaf, addressing citizens protesting against him in early November 2014, made the following remarks, among many more insulting ones: “I can’t wait to catch those people holding those placards [against me]….I will deal with them in the most timely manner like the Ebola virus disease…I will make them bleed like the virus….I will make their stomach come from out of their stomach…” (The Papers, Voice FM. November 13, 2014). Meanwhile this is a very contagious and fatal disease that killed more than 4,900 citizens in short time, although with another long story behind it, etc. and etc.

These are just a few of the direct insults that the ever-suffering, vast Native majority population of this place continue to endure at the hands of elements from the AmericoLiberian criminal gang called government and some politicians, but the indirect insults are so countless for someone to think about enlisting them. However, just to tease your brains a bit, please decide for yourselves whether the small sample of 5 below does not constitute indirect insults to our people again: 1. Before declaring his intention to run for the Americo-Liberian presidency, almost every activity of current Vice President Joseph Boakai had been concentrated in his home county of Lofa, but as soon as he declared his intention to contest the presidency, as if the people, especially the poor school going kids had been surviving through his food handouts, the Office of the Vice President immediately started sharing out expired tuna fish to schools in Montserrado and other parts of the country (Local Community sources, ELBC, March 10, 2016, local dailies etc.)

2. As if this is a land of dummies or fools, to say the least, Ellen speaks to the press about growing the economy as follows: “…In 2007, we grew the economy up to 12%; in 2008, due to the global financial crisis, we dropped to 6%, and by 2012, we came back to 12% etc….We are very strict in our debt management strategy….We have made sure that the monetary and fiscal arms cooperate with one another; we follow prudent management policies… We place the monies to where everyone can see it – the roads, the hydro etc.

[With respect to the Millennium Challenge Corporation grant we just won], we passed

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the corruption test consistently as prescribed by the MCC, which is very rigid…”.

(Prime FM. 105.5, December 30, 2015). All these are clear insults to any level-headed persons!!

3. In a very brief summary, former Senator Blamo Nelson narrates how during the very heat of the Ebola health crisis in Liberia that killed over 4,900 citizens, the main institutions fighting the epidemic – i.e. the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) etc. offered the Americo-Liberian authorities the option of choosing between holding political elections and halting all electioneering activities to first attend to the health needs of their citizens, and the Americo-Liberian authorities strangely chose their elections over the lives of the citizens whose blood was already been massively wasted by Ebola (Costa Show, Voice FM. November 14, 2014) 4. While the country cries for serious manpower shortage, especially for a huge shortage of qualified personnel within the educational sector, to the point that Nigeria had to sometime come in to offer help with high school teachers, Monrovia Consolidated School System boss, Mr. Adolphus Jacobs, is on record for telling the press that he, just in 2015, had on standby, or as reserved teachers, 1,000 trained and qualified men.

(ELBC, February 9, 2015) 5. Senator Cummany Wisseh says the “chameleon” style politics in the country, whereby so-called politicians just jump at any time from one party to another [glaringly just for quicker access to some government office, and not for any genuine principles], and the uncontrollable proliferation of political parties in the country, whereby this 43,000 square mile, 4.5 million population country now has over 20 to 30 political parties, some of which don’t even have offices to work from, are all good signs of the country’s improvement in democracy. OH WHAT AN INSULT TO A PEOPLE!!!! (ELBC, October 13, 2015) Let’s pause here for now.

To close on this section, we have sufficiently elaborated on the ‘original sin’ of this country – Tribal Suppression and Ethnic-based Marginalization, whose spillover effect have produced all of the other societal ills and vices we have been discussing above, including a generally cruel society, a country with an unspeakable disdain for fellow human beings, a country whose political and opinion leaders just rain insults on citizens, and a country whose government just criminally and carelessly run the affairs of state etc. Our biggest revolutionary argument as such has been that Liberia was founded on the principles of ethnocentrism – a form of corruption whereby one ethnic or social group perceive itself as more human being than the rest of the people, and as such, they are the masters while the others are their slaves. And this of course, has opened up to all of the other cruelties in this country and has left society in tatters up to this point – with all these implanted and sustained by America.

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If you don’t believe in this claim of ours that ethnocentrism is Liberia’s biggest and deadliest problem, then please connect the dots between the current happenings narrated here and the few credible claims below from international sources in the past, and from current events, stressing this same NASTY reality, as follows: a) New York-based History Professor, Dr. James Ciment describes the Americo-Liberian treatment of the Natives in this country as Liberia’s “Original Sin.” (http://online.wsj.com...) b) Sir John Simon of the British Foreign Service wrote on May 29, 1934 that it would be a NEGLECT of the [West’s] duty to civilization if the misgovernment of the Native tribes of Liberia [by the Americo-Liberians] was allowed to continue (www.theperspective.org) c) Dr. Charles Johnson of the League of Nations wrote, “Liberia was [is] a nation conceived solely as a haven for freed American Slaves at the detriment of the vast indigenous majority (Idem) d) The League of Nations, in its 1930 – 1931 report on Liberia concluded, “The Government of Liberia is systematically fostering a policy of gross intimidation and suppression of the Native in order to prevent him from asserting himself in any way whatsoever, for the benefit of the dominant and colonizing race, although originally the same stock as themselves” etc. e) Then with respect to how justice is dispensed in Liberia from 1822 up to this 2016, here is how the United States Department of State has almost always painted the real picture since it started publishing its human rights report on Liberia in 2008 or so. This account represents a one paragraph summary of their 2014 and 2015 reports, which are the very latest two, and in addition to explicit emphases on the culture of impunity and ethnic discrimination, the both executive summaries’ first line each reads, “…The most serious human rights abuses were those linked to lack of justice, judicial inefficiency, corruption, lengthy pretrial detention, denial of due process, and harsh prison conditions..”

THE DANGEROUS END RESULTS OF ALL SITUTATIONS ABOUT THIS COUNTRY ABOVE

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An Argentine fashion designer, Mario Testino has said that life is like a boomerang, and that it rewards us for whatever energy we place into it, or, that whatever we place into it today has its own way of coming back at us tomorrow. All that these sad realities about Liberia tell us is that this is a very fragile and volatile environment and society, so much vulnerable to sliding back into chaos and disorder just as frequently as possible, owing to what the societal frontrunners and even the ordinary citizens continue to invest into their country.

Moreover, in very layman terms, the harsh reality about life is that with the passage of days, months, and years, whatever we are part of, whatever we are involved with, whatever our activities are etc. will tend to normally heap up, or improve, or enlargen incrementally,

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unless we establish that an activity of ours is not worthy, and take bold steps to cut it off, which usually happens painfully. That is to say for example, if honesty was cherished and practiced in a place at a 10% level in 1990 for instance, by 2000, it shall have incrementally grown to around 20%, and by 2010, 25 to 30% etc., unless we feel that honesty is harmful and decide to cut it off –and this cutting off must be done radically, if we really want results.

This same concept applies to vices such as corruption, ethnocentrism, mischief making through bloodshed, lawlessness, and laziness. Once any of these is encouraged and approved at 10%, say, in 1990, by 2000, they shall have climbed to 15%; then by 2010, the society will be well advanced in them by up to 30 to 40% and so forth.

As a proof of this observation, since Liberia, as a political entity, approved and laid her foundation in 1822 on the pillars of corruption, which included deceit, sectionalism, vengeance, among others, and continued to do everything along the way in history to uphold and sustain these vices, these cruelties continue to advance with the passage of time (although in different forms as time moves on, just as their nasty fruits continue to grow incrementally. We all know that the fruits of these vices are poverty, division, lawlessness, violence, instability, backwardness, illiteracy, and wars.

So, as soon as Liberia was established in 1822 on these dirty foundation pillars, their corresponding dirty fruits began to manifest themselves that very year, beginning with wars.

Thus, from 1822 to date, the country has gone through more than 18 different rounds of recorded bloody crises or experiences, including 13 full scale wars, four recorded coup d’etats and 1 major national riot – for a total of over 30 years of bloodbath in 194 years of being around as a unit.

To get a gist of what we are talking about here, according to Liberian History and other reliable sources, including Wikipedia.org, Liberia hit the ground running with the Crown Hill Battle that was fought for half an hour, and then the Forte Hill Battle that was fought for one and a half hours – all in November of 1822. Then came the Kru War of at least 1 month and 3 weeks (1856); the Grebo War was next, and lasted for at least 6 months (from 1856 – 1857). The Combined Uprisings of the Inland and Coastal Tribes took place for a little over 6 months in 1864; then came the Cape Palmas War, which could be called the Second Grebo War, that lasted for about this same duration or slightly over 6 months between 1875 and 1876. Next came the Mixed Tribal Wars or Confrontations that took place for about 7 years, between the mid-1880s and the early 1890s. Other wars of much shorter durations of course interrupted this progressive trend of bloodbath between 1900 and 1918, including the Bloody Battle of 1900, the Kru Rebellion of 1915, and the Gola War of 1918. Then came the Sasstown War of 1931 to 1936. An then of course, the most progressive and devastating one was a combined 14 years of closely intermittent civil wars from 1989 to 2003 that featured the First Liberian Civil War and the Second Liberian Civil War, which history alternatively refers to as the Taylor War and the LURD-MODEL Wars respectively.

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Interestingly, almost all of these hostilities involve a war between our Native forefathers and the ever-devilish Americo-Liberians for how they have, and continue, to treat our people like animals in pursuit of the vengeance they explicitly pronounced in their AmericoLiberian Declaration of Independence, and anyone of these wars that took place between tribes explicitly was most probably instigated by Americo-Liberian influence or elements.

Moreover, each of these wars brought untold disgrace to the country in terms of the unspeakably intensive levels of foreign investment and intervention to quell them, as with the last thus far, i.e. the 14 year combined Civil Wars, which disgracefully took over 20 internationally brokered, organized and funded peace accords, exhausting over US$200 million, and the little semblance of stability brought about after this last one thus far, has now cost the United Nations – in UNMIL – over US$50 billion. All these information are both from empirical studies and reliable sources.

If you wish to get an idea about some of the shamefully over 20 heavily financed peace accords that poverty-stricken, power-hungry, so-called Americo-Liberian politicians sat in before a semblance of peace could come about as a result of the UN’s massive intervention here in 2003, we would not mind briefly listing all of them here as follows, just to refresh your memories and those of the main actors. The 21 different peace gatherings that culminated into UNMIL coming in October 2003 included: Peace Accords (1-4) - Banjul I, II, III, and IV (June 1990, August – September 1990, October 1990, and December 1990); P.A. (5) - The Bamamko Cease Fire Agreement (November 1990); (*P.A. means peace accord) P.A. (6) - The Lome Agreement (February 1991); P.A. (7) - The ECOWAS Follow Up Conference (March 1991); P.A. (8 – 11) - Yamoussoukro I, II, III, and IV (October 1991 etc.); P.A. (12) - The Geneva Agreement for Liberia (April 1992); P.A. (13) - The Cotonou Accord (April 1993); P.A. (14) - The Akosombo Peace Accord (September 1994); P.A. (15) - The Monrovia Conference (September 1994); P.A. (16) - The Akosombo Clarifications in Accra (December 1994); P.A. (17) - The Abuja Peace Agreement (July 1995); P.A. (18) - A National Conference on the Future of Liberia (July 1998); P.A. (19) - The National Conference on Peace and Reconciliation (July 2002); P.A. (20) - The Akosomobo Conference (July 2003); and P.A. (21) - The Accra Comprehensive Peace Accord (August 2003).

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strong forewarnings or grave writings on the wall to announce their coming. For example, the 1979, 1980, and 1989 troubles were warned about well in advance – with some of the warnings coming almost 30 years ahead, while others were made a few years to a few months in advance of these dirty developments. Considering the 1979, 1980 and 1989 crises, with the 1989 crisis requiring 21 peace accords or some form of national get together for problem solving before it could get temporarily halted as we brought above, let’s bring you just 3 of the long-in-advance forewarnings that came from different foreign sources so that you yourself can imagine what people on the ground at the time were saying and warning about these imminent dangers. Note: Because of some limitations, we will be unable to include domestic warnings.

Having said that, 3 of the key foreign based writings on the wall pointing to these crises include: 1. According to A. E. Yapp of the US Foreign [Policy] Office, in an October 22, 1934 article entitled, “Press Clipping From West African Review, the US Government sounded a strong warning in 1929 about the appalling conditions of the Liberian Indigenous, and started washing its hands off the Americo-Liberian – Native debacle by the middle of 1934 (October 1934, FO, 371/18043). (www.theperspective.org) 2. Mr. S. Raymond Buell of the US Foreign Policy Association visited Liberia around the 1950s and wrote extensively about this rogue state, among other things predicting a cloud of bloodletting hanging over the country in years to come. For example, in his book/article, “A Century of Survival, 1947, University of Pennsylvania Press, Mr. Buell wrote, “Unless something radical is done to narrow the growing gap between the governing oligarchy and the [ordinary] Liberian people, it is not impossible that within 25 years, fighting will break out in the country…” (Idem) 3. George Schuyler, a journalist who visited Liberia in the 1930s posted facts about this colony in his book, “Slaves Today”, among which he said, depicting the picture in Liberia at the time, “Corruption triumphs, the maladministration of the country continues; the trafficking of human flesh continues; and peace [remains] illusive. (Idem) If you read through this article to this point, you would discover without doubt that all of the vices started by this country in 1822, based upon which the fruits of war, poverty (remember poverty is not only in materials, but also in ideas), official mischief-making, sectionalism etc. began manifesting themselves the same year, are now even at their much advanced stages than before. Corruption in this country has gotten so fantastic, as in the words of UK Prime Minister David Cameroon, describing Nigeria’s part of corruption the last time; trafficking in humans has gotten so enhanced tremendously with modern sophistications and formal Americo-Liberian governmental processes; ethnocentrism now wears the best of ‘coat suit’ as no sons of the Kiazolues, Jehs, Gayflors, Nimleys, Zinnahs and Jlatehs dare

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take a test along with the sons of the “true” McClains, the Bernards, the Scotts and expect their names to surface, once the Americo-Liberians haven’t yet gotten their targets.

Moreover, as we brought to you here, the culture of dependency has now gotten so advanced to the point that a whole government in this country will enter into some $1.5 million financing agreement with the European Union for 5 round years, just to maintain a less than 70 mile, one-lane road, doing stuffs like side brushing. (ELBC, early May 2016), when baby countries like Nigeria, just Lagos alone, now counts over 10,000 millionaires, talk less about Abuja, and the rest of the country. The thwarted vision of what constitutes economics and the management of human and natural resources has gotten so dangerously entrenched into their real 21st century forms. Human rights abuses now wear the biggest of “higher height suits” to the point that over 500,000 persons are killed in one senseless campaign called a revolutionary war, and then a filthy, iniquitous Americo-Liberian body calling itself a Supreme Court rules against these innocent dead souls’ inalienable rights to life etc.

With these and many more accounts of how the Americo-Liberian engineered vices have accumulated again, just 13 years after the last civil war, the writings on the war have gotten so numerous about another round or even rounds of bloodbaths awaiting the country once more – just about this same time again, if we collectively continue to act lazy, especially in acquiring the right kind of knowledge that will enable us to read between the lines and take the appropriate collective actions at genuine change, change initiated by ourselves, and in our own best interest, and change not imposed upon us by America or the EU or the World Bank.

With these premises laid, here are 62 accounts (most of them very brief) of the alarming writings on the wall in this 2016, warning that DANGER is already at each citizen’s doorsteps again, and that this DANGER will surely bite, if we don’t make the required radical U-turn now in our civic actions, and want to continue business as usual. The newspaper headlines, news bulletin stories, news magazine features etc. and other sources (some presented in a little bit of details) constituting our 62 accounts of “writings on the wall” for DANGER, with one or two of them originating from the very beginning of this current Ellen Johnson Sirleaf administration, and the balance 98% being generated just from 2015 to this 2016 alone, are as follows: *Note: Chronological order is not observed here, but rather some order of importance: 1. Tragic Departure: Harry Greaves Finally Laid To Rest Privately (FrontPage Africa Newspaper, March 11, 2016) * Note: While we have decided not to go into details for the articles or headlines listed in this section, we would like to use this point on Harry Greaves as a key exception in that he is a very important model to our Plain Truth Revolution. Remember in most of our articles and documents, we come down hard on the Americo-Liberians as predominantly criminals, non-governmental and nonmanagerial materials etc. whose inherent and entrenched criminal culture helps America continue their spree of looting our natural resources and strengthening their imperialist claws around us under the canopies of making business or rendering humanitarian

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services. For these and other reasons of course, we insist that Americo-Liberians MUST be completely kicked out of our public sector for at least a century through some formal transitional justice mechanism as you will discover in some of our revolutionary pamphlets. But as objective, educated and civilized patriots, influenced first by the Principles of God, then largely by Statistics, and then History among others, the revolutionary stances or arguments that we propound in all of our work, do all have their bases firmly laid in such concepts as Inferential or Inductive Statistics; wherein for example, anyone systematically studying the Americo-Liberian breed of people would discover that over 99% of them would fall under a bell curve of criminality, including a barrage of vices embossed into their very DNAs. However, just as there must be some element (s) of variations in any drawn sample from a population to be tested in an experiment, there are some Americo-Liberians, who definitely fall outside of the “Region of Certainty for Criminality”; and all through our studies and arguments, we have been able to consistently derive at Americo-Liberian ‘variances’ such as William R. Tolbert, Harry Greaves, Simeon Freeman, and Dr. Elwood Dun etc., as far as our studies have established yet; and interestingly, almost all of the names above have been dealt some raw blow by their fellow Americo-Liberians, who fall within the huge majority Region of Certainty or the bell curve of criminality. Let us hasten to register the fact that Tolbert and Greaves’ parts of raw deals were gruesome murders just for their being very productive, and Simeon’s part of raw deal for his objectivity has been his premature ostracism out his own society, while Dr. Dun’s good suggestions and strong recommendations seem to be fiddled with or played around, as he’s now pushed towards the corner of their society. These are all the kinds of dangerous fate (s) that the very few good apples among the Americo-Liberians continue to endure. Moreover, based on their magnitudes, we have laid more emphasis or presented more details on a couple of other accounts below.

Having made these brief clarifications, we wish to continue with the Harry Greaves episode here by fearlessly stating that one apparent reason, which spells a big DANGER by itself, behind Mr. Greaves’ gruesome death, a death that greatly affects the supreme interest of the vast indigenous population of this country, can be summarized as follows.

In one of Greaves’ recent interaction with the press, he said, “….The EU (European Union) has pledged over US$30 million over the next five years for the set up and running of an electricity sector regulator in Liberia, and government is dug in her heels to control this EU money – something [his] initiative, BRILSELCO, was desperately against [owing to the fact that government has no track record of doing anything better and substantial in this country].” (Farbric FM New Dawn, September 17, 2015). Note that ‘BRILSELCO’, a civic initiative, was set up by Mr. Greaves; it sought some Legislative backing, to liberalize the electricity sector through some form of productive privatization, so that electricity becomes very widespread and affordable across the country. This instigated some underground see-saw battle between Greaves and the Americo-Liberian Government, probably with some other peripheral differences

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attached. But in less than 4 months of this electricity bill battle, Greaves’ body was mysteriously found on a beach around the immediate vicinity of the Executive Mansion (Independent Newspaper, “Harry Greaves Body Found Near Ellen’s Office”, February 1, 2016; In Profile Daily Newspaper, Women’s Voices Newspaper, February 1, 2016 etc.).

But even more interestingly, immediately after Greaves’ mysterious death, just a little over one week, while the public and family were still deeply mourning this very productive Americo-Liberian man’s mysterious demise, and authorities were lying about conducting autopsy on his body, the Government of Liberia and the EU signed two financing agreements of around US$60 million in a twinkle of an eye for mainly supporting the Liberian Electricity sector, and others. The Greaves’ recently protested $30 million in the making for CRIMINAL Government of Liberia, for electricity support, upon which he laid so much emphasis, had been realized just within a week of his gruesome death and subsequent surfacing, painfully at the beach lifeless. (Farbric FM News, February 9, 2016; Inquirer Newspaper, February 9, 2016 etc.). Immediately within this same time, Minister Patrick Sendolo, Chairman of the High Level Energy Steering Group, organized an electricity stakeholders’ meeting, at which highly developed and chief Americo-Liberian international partners – the European Union, the World Bank, the USAID etc. came together to now discuss how all 15 counties of Liberia are now going to get electrified in the next 6 months after the death of “wicked” and “economic sabbotager” Harry Greaves.

To close on this point, remember from reliable sources, that it was through this same Harry Greaves, when he was Economic Advisor to Interim President Gyudee Bryant, that the mobile phone communications industry or sector got extensively privatized and liberalized, that at least today, our grandmothers, sisters, and fathers way there in Tarjuwon or Zorzor, can now easily afford a cell phone and be able talk to their sons, daughters and friends in Monrovia with ease. In the world of Americo-Liberia, this is counterproductive to the original design of the country – i.e., “why expose these ‘savages’ to this extent?” This same man, Harry Greaves, wanted to still do more while at the so-called Liberia Petroleum Refining Company, which only stores products for largely foreign business people, but President Sirleaf and her Americo-Liberian Legislature quickly booted him out. President Ellen Sirleaf is on record for always asserting that the Liberian society hates good people – something that brings to mind too, how the best and most visionary of all of Liberia’s Presidents since 1822, Mr. Tolbert, was gruesomely murdered. Two dangerous realities however are (a) that all this killing of key good people are done with some explicit acquiescence of heavy-weights within the international community, led by America; and (b) importantly that it is not our vast, poor, suppressed indigenous majority who carry on these devilish deeds, or approve these kinds of cruelties. But instead, it is the cunning Americo-Liberian machinery of confusion and mischief that does this, and pull the poor, ignorant people into the picture

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as the cruel people who hate good folks. This is false, and our citizens are not bad, as President Sirleaf and her majority Americo-Liberian elements fight to make us and the world at large to believe. The fact of the matter remains however that out of ignorance and poverty – all of which are engineered and nurtured by America through her Americo-Liberians – our people are lured and dragged into being bad people. Period!!

2. Here are some of the reasons that make Liberia’s current peace very illusive, as the process to it was marred by America’s iniquitous handling of justice related to Liberian elements. Two key ones are as follows: a. Ellen and the United States cruelly and deceitfully stabbed Charles Taylor in the back in the name of wanting peace for Liberia. Peace achieved from deceit and one-sided, kangaroo justice can never be sustained. This is how a US Expert on African affairs narrated the story, in summary: “……Upon her election victory in late 2005, when quizzed about her plans for Tayor’s extradition, Ellen reportedly said that she did not view it as an immediate priority……Notwithstanding these statements, in early March 2006, (just one month after her inauguration, and just a few days after reassuring the public that the Taylor problem was not an immediate priority of her newly installed government), published press reports suggested that the Sirleaf administration was in talks with the Nigerian Government regarding Taylor’s possible extradition from Nigeria and that President Sirleaf had made a formal request towards that end to the Nigerian Government. Her government, however, publicly denied that a formal extradition letter had been given to the Nigerian Government — though Liberia’s Information Minister Johnny McClain confirmed the existence of a “briefing note” on this topic. At various fora during a mid-March state visit to the United States, however, Sirleaf confirmed that a request had been made by her government to Nigeria for Taylor……Responding to a suggestive concern of why so soon with the Taylor issue, President Sirleaf said, international pressure, pressure “constraining our effort to ... raise the resources that we need for our development” had, in part, motivated her to request that Nigeria extradites Taylor.

She said, however, that such pressure had been “unfair”……. On March 16, 2006, Representative Jim Kolbe stated on the House floor that President Sirleaf had verifiably informed Representative Nita Lowey and himself that she had requested that Nigeria extradite Taylor. Nigeria later acknowledged that the request had been made….. Still interestingly, prior to the confirmation by Sirleaf of her extradition request to the Nigerian Government, some in Congress had suggested that the continued provision of substantial US development aid to Liberia would need to be conditioned upon her making of such a request. During the February 8, 2006, House Committee on International Relations hearing on Liberia, Representative Royce, after outlining diverse reasons why Taylor should be promptly extradited, stated that “[t]his friend of Liberia (referring to America) has very little interest in providing more [U.S. assistance] money to rebuild Liberia until its President brings Taylor — a

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known force for destruction — one step closer to justice by calling on Nigeria’s President to send him to the Special Court……. (Nicolas Cook, Analyst in African Affairs: Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division: US Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, from his Report titled, “Liberia: Post War Developments – Key Issues and US Assistance” etc.). * Note: The ‘demningly’ dangerous sides of all this are that (1) Taylor is not being punished for all of the untold atrocities committed in Liberia, but instead, for his role in the Sierra Leonean crisis, because Liberians are pigs in the eyes of America, who do not deserve any form of reprieve or reparation for harm done to them; (2) The very America, Ellen, and most of her government officials, who are ‘rushingly’ turning Taylor over for justice, have so much blood stains on their hands from this very activity that led Taylor to this ‘sin’, but they all are now behaving like angels. The Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report and numerous other empirical evidence can substantiate this claim of our revolution. (3) Taylor willingly resigned his elected position, and relinquished his responsibility to fight on till the end – although after much pressure and consultations – for the sake of his people, after it was generally agreed reportedly by all parties that he would never be sought after when he takes an asylum out of the country. This became a pillar of the current peace. (4) Ellen is explicit from the account above that she was not turning over primarily for justice, but instead for so-called development aid. For her information, she was instead sowing seed of chaos and discord, as no development achieved from stabbing a fellow citizen in the back can ever be sustained. b. Here is another gist of how America treated Charles Taylor’s son, Chuckie Taylor, out of complete hatred, again in the name of justice – all because this world’s superpower cares less about the implications of such actions to our peace in the future. The story goes like this, again, in short. Strangely in the dispensation of fair justice, Charles Taylor’s son, Chuckie (called variously as Emmanuel, Roye Belfast etc.) was struck three different times in roll with US Court convictions, while already in the hands, or under the custody of judicial authorities. Here is the trend: On March 30, 2006, Chuckie Taylor was arrested at the Miami International Airport in Florida for passport fraud; taken to court, found guilty on September 15, 2006, remanded to prison, awaiting formal sentencing for 11 months, which was to be done on December 7, 2006. One day prior to his formal sentencing – i.e. on December 6, 2006, Charles Taylor Jr. was indicted for multiple counts of torture, based on one Liberian, of America’s interest’s complaints against him (Chuckie), with the support of Human Rights Watch and others. To handle this new torture case against Taylor Jr., the US Congress had to quickly draw from the shelf a dusty 1994 crafted statute – the US Federal Extraterritorial Torture Statute, 18 USC & 2340 A, that had never been used on anyone before, amend it quickly, and use it to indict and subsequently convict already incarcerated Taylor Jr. of five counts of torture, and one count of using fire arm during a violent crime. In October 2008, Chuckie was subsequently

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convicted of these torture-related crimes and sentenced to 97 years in prison on January 9, 2009 (BST). While in custody facing this 2nd and most destructive sentence to his life concomitantly with the first conviction, a group of 5 Liberians, again, in America, and of America’s special interest, brought torture charges against already-suffering-97 year-imprisonment Chuckie, in what they called a civil case, sometime around late 2009 or early 2010. On February 5, 2010, US District Judge Adalberto Jordan convicted jailed Chuckie for the 3rd separate time, and ordered him to pay $22.4 million in damages to the 5 Liberian plaintiffs – names withheld. In a two page order, the Judge awarded at least US$5 million each, to four of the 5 Liberians, and US$1.8 million to the 5th, all for physical pains and mental sufferings, and to punish Chuckie Taylor for his actions in Liberia (Associated Press, www.boston.com/news....; http://www.hrw.org/news...../; http://w.ice.gov/news....).

Note: One Liberian in America became so important that Chuckie Taylor, Jr. had to face the American Justice System and receive a 97 year jail sentence for torture against this Liberian; moreover, 5 Liberians in America became so important that Chuckie Taylor, Jr., by directive of the American Justice System was ordered to pay reparations to them in the tone of US$22.4 million (Boston Globe Newspaper and other sources above), but over 500,000 Liberians were murdered and over 1 million made to suffer in refugee life by a war organized, prosecuted or aided and abetted by Charles Taylor, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Tom Woewiyou, a host of current Liberian Government officials, the United States Government or Elements within the United States Government etc., but a Supreme Court under a government heavily backed by America, has ruled against any provision aimed at making any major amends for all this huge damage and suffering borne by a single set of people as unconstitutional.

This is what the Americo-Liberian Supreme Court did against the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s key recommendations to bring relief to the poor people of this country. To add insult to injury, while some pressure from other quarters, including the UN presumably, are being brought to bear on the US-backed cruel Americo-Liberian Government to still implement these key TRC recommendations, the Hot Pepper Newspaper in Monrovia uncovers how Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf is impressing upon her Washington DC based commercial diplomacy firm, KRL International, who reportedly has enormous contacts within the American Governmental Circles to push hard on behalf of the Liberian Government for the abolition or thrashing out of the TRC key recommendations (www.hotpepperliberia.com: Because of Personal Interest, Liberia’s Oil Block Sold Cheaply’; October 22, 2015) 3. In certain article, published in March 2011 about whether or not foreign aid does more good than harm, critics argued that foreign aid stifles economic growth, promotes corruption, and leads to chronic dependence. Others also said that when foreign aid is not given with good intentions, like for example, when it is given for geostrategic reasons, or when it is designed to benefit big businesses in wealthy nations, some of the

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worst [things under this sun can happen to the receivers] of such aids. To the argument that Western nations want to eliminate hunger and poverty through their aid packages, James Shikwati, a Kenyan remarks, “Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40 years.” He goes on to say, “The countries that have collected the most development did [like Americo-Liberia] are the ones that remain the worst in shape.”

Then a young Zambian, Dambisa Moyo, in her work, “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working”, she argues that aid perpetuates a cycle of poverty. Then come two Western writers: (a) James Bovard, in his 1986 article, “The Continuing Failure of Foreign Aid”, he argues, “Analyzing world events over a period of more than 40 years now, the success of foreign aid is often measured by intentions and not results.” Using the United States as an example, Bovard writes, “ Foreign aid has routinely failed to benefit the foreign poor…..the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has dotted the countryside with ‘white elephants’…….the biggest…of them all – a growing phalanx of corrupt, meddling and overpaid bureaucrats…..(The Dark Side of Foreign Aid). (b) In a column on the economist.com website titled, “Cash for Conflict”, it is said that one important negative effect of foreign aid, according to new research is civil conflict.

Benjamin Frost of the University of Colorado in Denver and his co-authors looked into a recent paper about development projects and civil conflict deaths in the Philippines to draw this conclusion. At the end of the day, these authors found a correlation between aid dollars and conflict deaths, or between aid and conflict for short.

Coming back to the America – Liberia tale, in 2004, the George Bush Administration complained that other US development programs, like the USAID, were suffering from many different, sometimes conflicting goals, which often were as a result of political pressure, thus, making them not to deliver long-term economic improvements to countries they serve. Congress then authorized the establishment of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to be a more neutral, or more independent, more free of political influence, and as such, to be much more objective in conducting aid affairs and providing development packages to needed countries in different style, although the US Secretary of State heads its Board of Directors/Executives. MCC grades countries on 17 key indicators, against which countries must score between 0 and 100% each, before subjecting these scores to some scaling method to determine their eligibility for receiving one of two categories of grants. Some of these 17 indicators include: Government Effectiveness, Rule of Law, Control of Corruption, Natural Resource Management or Protection, Public Expenditure on Primary Education, Fiscal Policy, Inflation Rate, Civil Liberties etc. – all of which a candidate country must score some passing or acceptable mark in. But according to an April 18, 2016 story in the FrontPage Africa Newspaper, title, “Unity Party Government – A Rogue Regime”, in the last gradesheet from the MCC, i.e., the 2015 scorecard, mama Americo-Liberia never scored 50% mark in any of these indicators. In fact, her highest mark was 48%, scored both in Rule of Law and Fiscal Policy, the rest were either 23%, 22%, 12% to 0% etc. For example, while next door, baby Ivory Coast was scoring such points as 88% for

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Controlling Corruption, 71% for Rule of Law, 92% for Business Startup, and 100% for Natural Resource Protection etc., Americo-Liberia never came close to 50% in any of these areas. In fact, it scored 19% in Natural Resource Protection. But this same Liberia won US$256.7 million in MCC grants, with these kinds of scores in 2015. However, please bear with us as we drive you through the patterns which these kinds of grants, just as writers like James Bovard and Benjamin Frost etc. have said, have clearly driven us again to the brink of bloodbath in this poor, dull country.

We put all of the befitting argument therefore this way, using a long string of the conjunctive adverb, ‘even though’, the long argument thus is: Even though Liberia ranks 57th among 203 countries and territories for government officials’ stealing their country’s monies and secretly depositing it in Swiss and other foreign banks, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (www.frontpageafricaonline.com, February 12, 2015, www.theperspective.org, February 17, 2015); Even though a 2014 report featured on Wikipedia ranked Liberia 4th among the world’s 7 biggest victims of capital flight and financial repatriation; Even though Liberia is one of the two counties that top a few countries in the world which conduct some dubious ship registry program under the nomenclature of flag of convenience, by which more than 4,000 commercial ships fly this country’s flag but with nothing substantial coming to its economy; Even though the US Congress has an instrument that amends its Internal Revenue Code of 1986, designating Liberia as an official tax haven for American Companies, under which US companies operate here without paying a cent to our government in taxes and other payable fees (Nicolas Cook, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress: Liberia’s Post War Recovery: Key Issues and Developments); Even though the Global Financial Integrity group ranks Liberia as the world’s second notorious country with the most illicit outflow of money (http://allafrica.com, 2015: Liberia Leaks Millions, Ranks High in Tax Evasion); Even though Liberia never scored up to 50% out of a 100% required mark each for any of the 17 key Millennium Challenge Corporation’s indicators of good governance, with scores in crucial areas averaging between 10 and 20% persistently, out of 100% on the MCC indicators for the country (FrontPage Africa Newspaper, April 18, 2016); Even though Global Witness has for years now continued to cry out very loudly to the whole world, which America heads in many respects, that the structure called Government of Liberia, from top to bottom, is a massive gang of whitecollar terrorists and economic vampires; for example, the New Snake Oil, 2015, the Deceivers, 2016 etc.); Even though the US Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) reports sent to Congress explicitly expose the Liberian Government’s illegal use of almost half a billion dollars now to powerful Washington DC-based law firms, commercial diplomacy firms, and others, including Jefferson, Walter International or JWI, LLC, LISCR, LLC, Radelet Steven Charles, KRL International, LLC, BKSH & Associates etc. to mischievously paint every NASTY and HORENDOUS picture on ground in our country rather positive to the US Congress and other World bodies, for which Liberian Government officials, including the President,

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now walks away with all of the honorary degrees, medals, and countless accolades (www.fara.gov; www.theperspective.org: Is This Ellen’s Watergate); Even though more than 50,000 non-residential companies are created and registered at 80 Broad Street in Monrovia, but their taxes and other fees are collected and expended by a private American company that is run from the heart of US Military facilities in Virginia, the United States of America, when flashlights are used to deliver pregnant women in Liberia due to lack of generators and gasoline to run them in this place (Liberia: America’s Outpost of Financial Secrecy – May 26, 2016, George Turner, Finance Uncovered, UK; http://amabjungane.co.za; OECD; Daily Observer Newspaper); Even though Transparency International, not too long ago ranked Liberia as the world’s number one corrupt country, with the story carried in the front page of America’s biggest newspaper, the USA Today (US Flips Flops Over Liberia – Say you mean, mean what you say: FrontPage Africa, December 8, 2015); Even though a leading newspaper in our country, the FrontPage Africa has categorically blamed the US Government for playing with the future of the good people of this country (December 8, 2015); Even though another top newspaper outlet in our country, the Hot Pepper Newspaper quotes President Obama as naming Liberia among a very few African countries whose leaders are pure thieves and common criminals (www.hotpepperlberia.com: Obama Names Rogue President: August 1, 2015); Even though a National Chronicle Newspaper July 2014 publication quotes a recent UN Security Council Report as saying that President Sirleaf is aware of all of the [funny things] happening in our country, but pretends to be sick, and in response to these embarrassing realities President Obama remarked, “From Nuremburg to Yugoslavia to Liberia, the US has seen that the end of impunity and the promotion of justice are not just moral imperatives, but are stabilizing forces in international affairs, while pledging the US support for the establishment of a War Crimes Court for Liberian criminals, (National Chronicle or Hot Pepper: US Government Slams Liberia Again: President Sirleaf’s fate hangs in limbo: July 24, 2014); Even though the National Chronicle Newspaper draws the public’s attention to the fact that it has been informed that the United States had instructed President Sirleaf to announce the establishment of a war crimes court on June 27, 2014, but that Ellen continues to shy away because of her own involvement with those war crimes, to the acquiescence of the United States (National Chronicle or Hot Pepper: US Government Slams Liberia Again: President Sirleaf’s fate hangs in limbo: July 24, 2014); Even though the National Chronicle Newspaper documented a well-coordinated money laundering or illicit cash transfer scheme deployed by Government of Liberia officials, which some US Authorities must be aware of, that goes like this: “Liberian Government officials first made Delta Airlines, an America airline, a conduit for illegally transferring their stolen wealth in cash to the United States. Some Liberian officials were caught at American airports with huge undeclared sums of monies. Delta got embarrassed when it was blamed by Federal Security Authorities for aiding and abetting such illegal process, and thus, Delta had to pause. Liberian Government Officials then started using the

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Liberian Embassy Bank account in the US to run their illicit cash transfer and money laundering activities; again, the Americans discovered this, closed the Liberian Embassy’s bank account in Washington DC, thus halting this second scheme or route. As a third and most suitable alternative for now, the newspaper reports, Liberian Government officials channel their monies from a bank on Broad Street in Monrovia, to a bank in Freetown, Sierra Leone, then from that bank in Sierra Leone, to a bank in Philippines, then from that bank in Philippines, to another bank in Delaware, the US, from where these monies are now transferred to individual accounts across the United States etc. (National Chronicle or Hot Pepper: US Government Slams Liberia Again: President Sirleaf’s Fate Hangs In Limbo: July 24, 2014); Even though Liberia’s score on the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index stands at a walloping 83% out of 100%, far over notorious Panama, which stands at 72%, and Liberia is one the less than 9 countries and territories of the over 200 countries and territories on this planet that have negatively NEVER passed the first phase of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Global Forum for Tax and Transparency Peer Review Test, for which it (i.e. Liberia) is now on some European nations’ black list of tax havens, is being and described by countries such as Brazil as a “privileged tax haven” etc. (http://www.theafricareport.com: Liberia: Africa’s Unknown Tax Haven With Much To Lose: April 2016); Even though the US Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) discloses that the very vast majority of Liberians live on less than $1 per day, with almost zero access to basic social services, and that childhood malnutrition levels are beyond measure, with 39% of children under 5 years of age stunted (i.e. can’t grow well due to lack of good and enough food), 86% of children 6-23 months old anemic (i.e. pale and sickly in their bodies always due to lack of good and adequate food), and 53% of them are deficient in Vitamin ‘A’ (Liberia’s Mess and Corruption: The Two Faces Of US Stance On Good Governance, Human Rights And Democracy In Africa: www.theperspective.org: May 17, 2016); Even though a Liberia’s Health Needs Assessment Report, done by the United States National Institute of Health (NIH) discloses former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as alluding to Liberian women being the most deprived on Earth while a woman governs their country (Idem); Even though Hot Pepper Newspaper sources in the United States have informed it that President Sirleaf is using KRL International’s Riva Levinson, the woman with all of the connections and contacts in this world, to help the Liberian Government to block or disrupt the implementation of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report, thus rendering the blood of almost half a million of our citizens that were gruesomely killed in STUPID Americo-Liberian wars of revenge and power in this country to go in vain, and to dash the hopes of millions of people from ever receiving any reparations for the kinds of savage treatments meted against them in the place for over two decades (www.hotpepperliberia.com: Because of Personal Interest, Liberia’s Oil Block Sold Cheaply’; October 22, 2015); Even though the US White House persistently maintained its stance on this ‘Black American Colony’, originating from 2004, according to its

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National Emergency Act on Liberia, that this country still remains a major threat to US Foreign Policy in light of the [broad day] unlawful depletion of our resources and the removal and subsequent secretion into other countries, of our nation’s funds and properties etc. (www.hotpepperliberia.com, July 24, 2014; www.theperspective.org, March 16, 2014) until KRL International, LISCR, LLC and other big firms cajoled the US Government to change this ‘music’ a bit in 2015, just to make way for the MCC to dish out quarter of a billion undeserved dollars to this criminal Liberian Government in so-called prize money for good governance; Even though the US State Department’s 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report explicitly brands Liberia as a source and destination country for men, women, and children’s painful subjection to forced labor and human trafficking (including “sex trafficking”); Even though the US State Department’s most recent Human Rights and Other Governance Activities report on Liberia substantiate similar reports of the past, persistently painting the bleakest and gloomiest of pictures about this illegitimate state, including for example, a country with corruption accepted and formalized in its public sector; a country where judicial and legal authorities don’t, as yet, even know the very basics of laws, and a country where human beings are still being treated like animals in this golden age of the Silicon Valley etc. (2015 US State Department’s Human Rights Report on Liberia, Liberian Local Dailies), and interestingly, in the cover letter of this report, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who submits this report to the US Congress, states emphatically with warning that “Violent non-state actors do not come from nowhere. They flourish in the absence of credible and effective state institutions, where avenues for free and peaceful expression of opinions are blocked, where court systems lack credibility, where unchecked security forces instill fear in the populations, and where even the most basic of day-to-day transactions by citizens with their government are characterized by corruption etc.”

Yet ironically, it is this same Honorable John F. Kerry, sitting as Head of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), who approves US$256.7 million to the Liberian Government in prize money for their ‘splendid performance’ at good governance and sound economic management, among others. Madam Diana Hyde, Chief Executive Officer of the MCC, speaking on behalf of all the decision makers, remarked, “This compact is a manifestation of the United States’ support to Liberia for the attainment of sustainable development and economic prosperity….” (http://liberiannewsagency.org: Liberia, MCC sign $257 Million Compact).

We would like for our good and caring friends of the great United States of America to explain to us whether the complications derived from these kinds of confused engagements and postures don’t pose great danger to a people’s lives and their future.

Other abbreviated stories or developments/headlines that spell great imminent danger include the following:

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4. Reporting on Liberia’s extreme vulnerabilities, the Inter press Service (IPS), made the following points among many more: (a) The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) lacks civilian leadership and has an ill-defined role in the Liberian Security sector; (b) In their report, Liberia’s Defense Minister is quoted as saying, “The training period for our officers is extremely short. As compared to any officer training anywhere in the world, I think the training of AFL – particularly the officers’ training needs to be thoroughly upgraded… I also believe garrison is not fully adequate for the reality of the entire country, so there are some challenges there”; (c) Liberia remains extremely vulnerable to a number of destabilizing threats. (Rebecca Murray, IPS, December 26, 2009 etc.)

5. Mr. ‘Fonati’ Koffa, Chairman of Liberty Party, says Liberia Security operatives – the LNP, AFL, BIN inter-alia – like in the past, are still yet instruments of oppression and repression, and so UNMIL must still be around for some time yet (Voice FM’s The Papers, April 29, 2015) 6. Cllr. Elijah W. Saah emphasizes government’s lack of respect for the rule of law, citizens’ lack of trust in government, and the police being the greatest threat to peace...

(Voice FM’s Costa Show, June 15, 2015) 7. UNMIL boss Karin Langrin expressed fears about Liberia’s gross inability to provide security for its people as demonstrated by some foolish and unimaginable LNP withdrawal from Rivercess County in 2015, when the LNP cut its already negligible manpower strength in the county by 84% for lack of money (ELBC, May 21, 2015) 8. Senator Geraldine Doe Sheriff categorically predicts war if the pending recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are not fully implemented – [something the government and almost all Americo-Liberian key elements are bent on dodging] (Farbric FM News, October 26, 2015) 9. Alfred Togba of the Movement for the Defense of the Downtrodden laments how only 2,000 men are in Liberia’s barracks claiming they can put up security for the whole Liberian state, while as low as L$150 or less than 2USD could be used at any police checkpoint in the country by anyone transporting or smuggling arms, or any harmful materials in whatever quantity (Farbric New Dawn, February 2, 2016) 10. CDC Mulbah Morlu says police officers who arrested civil society activist Vandarlark Patricks in February 2016 used a penetrating device to place a liquid element (apparently some poison) into his body, after which he has now contracted some serious health problem. Mr. Morlu likened this situation to how government handled political prisoner Charles Julue once, the result of which was Mr. Julue’s ultimate death immediately upon his release from government’s prison (Farbric New Dawn, March 2, 2016) 11. Rep. Acarious Gray of Montserrado County tells the public, “We have to be concerned about our own security because this whole autopsy thing from government [when people

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are killed mysteriously apparently by agents of the very government] is a different thing…(Farbric New Dawn, February 29, 2016) * Note: The items that follow are newspapers’ headlines, some with short explanations – all depicting dangers like the issues or stories presented above: 12. “Lasting Peace in Liberia Will Require Fairness and Inclusion for All Liberians in Their Country’s Progress,’ Top UN Envoy Tells Security Council” (Note: In this article, UNMIL boss Karin Langrin outlines some of the imminent dangers still looming over Liberia’s head, especially owing to the country’s own negative comportment) (www.un.org....sc/10958, March 25, 2013) 13. Security Council, Adopting Resolution 2239 (2015), Extends by One Year Its Mission’s (UNMIL’s) Mandate in Liberia ahead of their 2016 Drawdown (Note: In this release the world body worries that Liberia continues to remain an enduring threat to international peace and security) (www.un.org/.....SC/12049, September 17, 2015) 14. “US$90 Million Needed To Revamp Security Sector” (In this story, Liberia, since UNMIL came here in 2003, hasn’t known yet that it will have to take over her own security, so within just few months away to UNMIL’s final, complete draw down, this Americo-Liberian country is now begging international donors to bring in US$90 million to train people to replace UNMIL) (http://allafrica.com/..... September 2015 etc.)

15. Vandarlark Patricks says President Sirleaf strictly ordered the firing or ‘the shooting to kill’ of opposition leaders Tubman and Weah in November 2011 – (Local Radio News, February 24, 2016) 16. UNMIL foresees conflict in Liberia, if……, cites corruption as major concern (https://brittius.wordpress.com/......, September 23, 2015) 17. “Police Connected To Arm Robbery” (The New Republic Newspaper, December 2, 2015) 18. Simeon Freeman says assassination plot afoot for 10 Liberian politicians (www.frontpageafricaonline.com, February 5, 2016) 19. “[Government’s] Hit List” (Daily Observer Newspaper, February 8, 2016) 20. “Armed Ivoirians In Liberian Forests” (The News Newspaper, June 10, 2015) 21. “Liberia On Time Bomb – Ellen’s Legacy Dented…” (Public Agenda Newspaper, March 4, 2016) 22. “UNMIL Detects Destabilization Of Peace” (The New Republic Newspaper, March 8, 2016)

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23. “Imam Council Vows To Boycott National Referendum” (www.capitoltimes.com, March 2016) 24. “One Week Ultimatum [For The Release Of Victoria Zayzay’s Autopsy Report By Government]” (The News Newspaper, April 1, 2016) 25. “Human Rights Commissioner (www.frontpageafricaonline.com, early 2016)

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26. “Ritualistic Killings, Witch Trials Etc., All Go Unpunished In Liberia” – [UN Expresses Concern] (http://af.reuters.com/..... December 18, 2015) 27. “Liberia’s Future Under Threat: Increased Violence, Wanton Murders, Infrastructure Destruction etc. – Ellen Describes Sinoe County’s School Arson “Uncivilized” (Public Agenda Newspaper, March 27, 2016) 28. Ellen seeks to restructure the LNP and the BIN (J. Burgess Carter, Local Newspaper, September 4, 2016) (*This means that ever since Ellen has been in power for over 10 years now, she didn’t know that the Liberia National Police and the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization needed to be restructured, until less than 9 months away to UNMIL’s going) 29. Opposition Politician Winston Tubman says the Americo-Liberian National Police (LNP) is not prepared [one inch] to provide security for the state, and therefore, UNMIL should remain here for some time yet (Farbric F.M. May 1, 2015) 30. Politician Darious ‘Dillon’ openly predicts a dangerous 2017 polls based on what he suggests as the already negative prevailing circumstances of growing lack of objectivity and rationality overwhelming the society (Farbric July 29, 2015) 31. “137 Border Points Remain Vulnerable” (Inquirer Newspaper, May 18, 2016). * This story reports that 39 out of the country’s 176 border points are currently protected by the BIN while the rest, 137 border points remain very vulnerable 32. A whole statutory district in Rivercess County, the Morweh Statutory District, has only one police officer, who has no option, but to befriend drug traffickers as they pass by him in their motor bike convoy (Farbric FM. March 24, 2016) 33. Country devils stormed a police station in Zorzor, Lofa County and freed a prisoner, their colleague or their interest, one Zoubayei Gayflor, leading to the abrupt closure of the whole local court, out of fears (ELBC, July 6, 2015) 34. The March 4, 2016 publication of the Frontier Newspaper reported, “Another man, or man, 22, found hanged in police cell” Note: This follows the mysterious death of poor, innocent 21 year-old Victoria Zayzay in Americo-Liberian police cell

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35. Focus Newspaper’s March 7, 2016 editorial questions, “How will the government provide security after UNMIL, when it does not even have money to implement advanced security plans?”

36. Bong County Senator Henry Yallah begs UNMIL to stay because he says security conditions in the country are not stable and satisfactory (ELBC, September 13, 2015) 37. Four, almost concomitant cases of LNP (Liberia National Police) officers facing bloody attacks while effecting arrests occur just at one point in time in 2015 (ELBC, September 28, 2015) 38. Rev. Dr. John Russell announces vision from God, but discloses too much blood hanging or pouring around that must be cleansed or wiped away first….(ELBC, October 28, 2015) 39. The Focus Newspaper’s January 14, 2016 edition brought a story entitled, “Police [Officers] No Different From Criminals – Lack Batches And Proper Identification” 40. FrontPage Africa brought a story in its January 20, 2016 edition with the caption, “Finance Minister Warns Of Risky 2017, Warns Of Tribal Democracy, As Was In Kenya In 2008” 41. The Insight Newspaper, on January 20, 2016 reported a story titled, “Causes Of War Visible, Presidential Aspirant Discloses…”

42. Here is a sign of trouble reported by the New Republic Newspaper on January 21, 2016, “Problem Ahead, April 2017 Referendum Could Be A Flop” 43. In its January 21, 2016 edition the Guardian Newspaper carried a story titled, “UNMIL Discovers Bombs In Gardnersville” 44. The New Democrat Newspaper had this story on February 5, 2016, “Fragile Security, US Enters Greaves’ Death Probe” 45. Analyst Newspaper’s February 29, 2016 edition carried the story, “Secret Deaths And Disappearances, Dr. Tipoteh Calls For Inter-Religious Council’s Intervention” 46. Because of greed, JFK becomes “Just For Killing” (Hot Pepper Newspaper, May 12, 2016) 47. On March 7, 2016, the Focus Newspaper had a story entitled, “UNMIL Worried, As Liberia Reneges On Security Plans” 48. New Republic Newspaper, March 7, 2016 brought a story that read as its title, “Dark Shadow Over Our Regime” More newspaper headlines that spell ultimate danger for our country are as follows: 49. “Killer escapes Police Custody” – (Women’s Voices Newspaper, March 7, 2016)

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50. “Money Crisis, Ellen Following Adolf Hitler” (New Democrat Newspaper, March 10, 2016) 51. “UNMIL must stay, Protemp pinpoints lapses in security sector” (Hot Pepper Newspaper, March 7, 2016) 52. “Asakaba Boys [armed gang] resurfaces, as citizens express concern” (National Era Newspaper, March 30, 2016) 53. “Potential terrorists in Monrovia, Civil Society Group calls on Government to act” (Focus Newspaper, April 7, 2016) 54. “Ammunitions discovered in Bomi ” (Women’s Voices Newspaper, March 7, 2016) 55. “Judge Decries Lack Of Security, Says Judges Are Vulnerable, And Need Security” (Public Agenda Newspaper, March 28, 2016) 56. “36 Parties Registered [Or To Register] For 2017” (New Republic Newspaper, March 25, 2016) 57. President Sirleaf calls on the country to prepare for very tough or turbulent times before the country’s pending political transition (ELBC, October 12, 2015) 58. “Ahead Of 2017 Elections, Country-Congo Divide – Dr. Dahn Fears Reemergence Of Old Order” (www.inprofiledaily.com; August 6, 2015) 59. “[Liberia] Emerging Police State” (In Profile Daily, February 29, 2016) 60. “Corruption Rips Liberia Apart – Says Transparency International” (Daily Observer Newspaper, February 29, 2016) 61. “Fear Grips Liberians, As Ex-Soldiers (www.gnnliberia.com, September 9, 2015)

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62. “War Cry: Protemp Statement Termed” (Capitol Times Newspaper, 2016) 63. Man found dead in Kakata, fear grips residents - (The Women’s Voices Newspaper, June 30, 2016) 64. Mass exodus engulfs AFL – PYJ alarms - (Catalyst Newspaper, June 30, 2016) 65. AFL and Police frustrated over salary delays - (Focus Newspaper, June 20, 2016) 66. Police and AFL clash, marketers run amuck in Red Light - (Insight Newspaper, June 20, 2016) 67. Mysterious death at Speaker Tyler’s farm – police launches investigation - (Hot Pepper Newspaper, June 23, 2016)

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68. In a February 2016 press statement released by the University of Liberia’s Student Unification Party’s authorities, they expressed sharp uncertainty in the state of the country’s security as follows: “……For some time now, our country has been besieged with great fear due to insecurity and a series of mysterious deaths. As we look across the nation, who can we rely on for security, especially as UNMIL leaves…..Judging from the prevailing realities, it is a fact that Liberia is moving back to its dark age….Yesterday, it was Keith Jubah and Fayiah Saah Gborllie. About a year ago, it was Michael Allison. Few months ago, it was Victoria Zayzay. Today, it is Harry Greaves. Tomorrow, it could be anyone of us….(Student Group Decries Bad Governance, Hardship: Wants TRC Convicts dismissed at University: http://gnnliberia.com, March 7, 2016) 69. To close this section, at some African Multi-stakeholders’ meeting held in Monrovia in January 2015, Finance Minister Amara Konneh complaint about Liberia’s NASTY crisis profile or orientation. In his words, “We are so fragile that every 3 years or so, one crisis comes and hits us [hard]” (Farbric FM. News, January 23, 2015) Fellow citizens, what more signs do we want to see before knowing that sound change, firmly grounded in sound education – not the foolish Americo-Liberian style of education that only restrict learning to fending for today’s daily bread – is now a MUST. As Mahatma Gandhi once asked, are we waiting for some drums to be beaten into our ears first before we wake up?

Everybody knows that this country has a very fundamental problem, a problem with the very foundation of society; and everyone should know by now that people don’t solve problems of foundation by going to the polls to vote for new leaderships. Solving foundational problems is more of a revolutionary act than a political assignment. In our case now, and with the magnitude of our problems, we have only two options: (a) Go to war to claim our independence, and radically change the way things are done here, or (b) Sit around the table in a well-planned and organized National Convention never to be planned, conducted and supervised by anything called government in this place, but to be engineered, planned and controlled by a revolutionary committee or body of enlightened citizens etc., and that’s what the Plain Truth Revolution is all about. We in this country can never more continue to struggle in vain with a societal foundation built by America, through their American Colonization Society, or a societal foundation laid by the likes of Jehudi Ashmun, J. J. Roberts and Steven A. Benson. For the foundation laid by these people was laid on sinking sand, and never in our interest, and we can never, after 200 years, still continue to struggle fruitlessly with such foundation. For the foundation laid by these proven Black American criminals greatly violates all of God’s principles, and it tends to mock our Creator, something which is impossible, because our God is not mocked.

Fellow citizens, we all are now in a battle – but this battle requires us to first choose one side of the fighting forces. We must either join the forces that are satisfied with the kinds of

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things happening in this society, and want to keep it at that, or we must choose the forces that have now emerged for genuine, lasting change, through the grace of God. There will be no sitting on the fence, as the country belongs to all of us, and we must all together fight to change it. But to enlighten you to make your choice, God has empowered equally struggling citizens like yourselves, to search the pages of books and newspapers, and to listen to variety of voices and developments happening in our country and abroad etc., just to bring you massive details about all of the issues that are at stake, including solution options for your perusal and subsequent decision making. All that we encourage you now to do is to go to the websites that we will be providing below to download our Plain Truth Revolutionary pamphlets and articles, in both audio and writings, so that any decision you make in this undodgeable engagement is well informed.

We all have a role to play, but all these roles must be thoroughly informed, that’s why we are encouraging everyone to find the time, download our pamphlets and other articles and begin to read. Our Facebook page is https://web.facebook.com/plaintruth2013. We also have three discussion groups: a Facebook group and a Google+ Community, both under the name Grain Coast (Liberia) Independence Movement (GIM), and are at https://is.gd/cO3rbV and https://is.gd/cyZm54 respectively, plus Google+ Page named plaintruthliberia, and at https://is.gd/SnsihD. We moreover have a Twitter and a YouTube presence, with our Twitter handle being @plaintruthrev, and on YouTube, we are at http://youtu.be/cTCeDYD8gw.

You are also encouraged to Google out any of our key documents or pamphlets by titles as a last option.

After reading this pamphlet, or any of the other pamphlets, or even reading all of them, which we highly encourage you to do, please share your thoughts with us at plaintruthrevolution@gmail.com, plaintruthrevolution@yahoo.co.uk, or plaintruthrevolution@hotmail.com. We are further entertaining any historical documentaries or any other worthwhile articles intended to further encourage us, or strengthen our case for this revolution, and any other concerns, using the address above.

You are also advised to go to every print media institution in Monrovia and elsewhere on the globe to find out whether they could help you with hard copies of these documents, as we managed to send out all of these information to the email addresses of almost all print media houses in Monrovia and some reputable ones outside of this country like the BBC, Aljezera, CNN etc. whose email contacts we managed to get hold of .

Thank you for being part of the process of real solid and sustained change in your own country. With everyone on board this change process, our country is at the verge of becoming one of the greatest on this planet, as we already have had enough of all of the bad examples in the Americo-Liberians to now avoid, and very good examples in America or other productive countries on the planet, like China, Russia, UK, France etc. to emulate.

To be updated periodically‌‌..

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