Placing a focus on the current Ebola epidemic, Liberia happens to be the hardest hit West African nation.
The leader of the nation is a Harvard-educated long-time member of the western corporate establishment, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who became president in 2005 after a Nigerian-led ECOWAS mission put an end to a spate of civil wars.
The
Sirleaf reign as president, as her stint in America’s big corporation
has been tainted with allegations of corruption and nepotism and now
with the Ebola epidemic. Her handling of the epidemic in Liberia cannot
be disconnected from her obligations as a western puppet and her
training in corruption. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that Liberia is
worst hit and that a colonial army has urgently set foot in Sirleaf’s
Liberia.
As soon as she assumed office, Sirleaf quickly signed a 100 year, binding deal
with western governments depositing the nation’s abundant resources in
the hands of the colonialist, despite them not playing a significant
role in the stabilization of Liberia which was achieved by an African
indigenous Nigerian-led effort.
Last week the
Liberian Senate debated and overwhelmingly turned down a proposition by
Sirleaf to restrict movement, "limit the right to assembly for any
reason", and peculiarly, to appropriate property. Women Voices called
it: "Tyrannical Times or Ebola Preventive Measures."
Some
have discussed the spread of Ebola in villages and farming communities
more so than the big cities and suggested that like the Boko Haram
crises in Nigeria’s northern farming communities and carbon credits
across Africa, that the Ebola crises which threatens to diminish the
population of locals by a least 55 per cent is a weapon to possess for
big corps., viable farming land owned and “misused” by these villagers
for generations.
Quarantines of cities by the
Sirleaf Government have sparked serious riots, and now she additionally
hurries to grab their land as the Americans settle in. Her approach to
combating the Ebola crises has been deliberately ineffective. While
having been largely unsuccessful in administrating, the Sirleaf
government is postponing Senate elections which lawmakers decided must
hold no later than December.
It is not surprising
that Liberia is most seriously plagued with Ebola considering the level
of corruption and nepotism that the Harvard-trained president is
involved in and accused of. She has been battled for putting three of her sons in top government positions. One of the sons, Charles Sirleaf was appointed governor of the Central bank of Liberia, CBL.
Robert Sirleaf served as Board Chairman for the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) till 2014. Sirleaf’s son has been accused of holding dual citizenship which he denied. However the New Republic Liberia paper obtained evidence of his voting in US elections which is impossible for non US citizens.
A fourth son, Dr Adama Sirleaf
has just come to join the three. Adama Sirleaf had to “defend” himself
this August against accusations that he was rushing over to the country
to make his personal fortune and capitalize on millions of dollars
pouring in from foreign sources for the war against Ebola (Liberian Observer, 08/29/2014).
Her history of corruption goes beyond her current years as president. Invited into the William Tolbert Richard administration as minister of finance, in 1979 Sirleaf was accused of stealing $3m dollars. She was coming from an apparently well trained colonial corruption - the World Bank, US “loan-shark” banks as well as other African banks.
Liberian Justice Minister Christiana Tah resigned early this month citing a litany of reasons including her inability to investigate the Liberian National Security Agency which is headed by President Sirleaf’s son (who has been accused of corruption and fraud).
As the US troops land in Liberia; Sirleaf’s radical and dangerous behaviors in sabotage of her nation cannot bWilcomsprints.com
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