Liberia equals corruption and corruption equals liberia by plaintruth

PAMPHLET # 3

PRODUCED BY: THE PLAIN TRUTH REVOLUTION

(Compiled: January 2013 – January 2016; Drafted: February-December 2016; Published: January 2017)

As we put ourselves in the right frame of mind, God willing, for this great revolution, these are some little but power food for thought, words of advice, or words of inspiration etc. from very key sources, including the Bible, the Quran, Revolutionaries/Philosophers, and Historians/Educators. Please take them seriously. They include: FROM THE BIBLE As you place your faith in God to make these strong decisions and take their corresponding strong actions, (1) Matthew 6:31-33 say- (31) Therefore take no thought saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or what wither shall we be clothed (32) For after all these things do the Gentiles seek. (33) For your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have needs of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you…..(2)Romans 12:18 – If possible, as far as it depends on you, be peaceful with all men….(3) I. Kings 22:3 – 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 it out of the hand of the King of Syria?...(4) Eccle. 4:5 – The stupid one folds his hands while is flesh wastes away. Etc.

FROM REVOLUTIONARIES AND PHILOSOPHERS (1) Without deviation from the norm, progress can [NEVER] be possible – Frank Zappa, American Song writer and guitarist…(2) As we approach the great social challenges of our time, we MUST acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions that we [direly] need. These [new] solutions [though] will be uncomfortable, hard to sell, and risky to execute, but the cost of not [selling and] executing them will be even much greater – Simon Mainwaring, Australian-American Brand & Advertising Consultant….(3) The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it; ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill, British Premiere…(4) Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable – John F. Kennedy, American President..(5) Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted, the leader must be doubly vigilant. – Gen. Collin Powell, former Secretary of State etc.

Liberia: A Small, Failed, Dirty Country Built On The Pillars Of Corruption: Here Are The Downright Proofs!!!!! FROM THE QURAN The Quran makes us to understand that to stand up for God’s principles, especially the truth, we must be prepared to go the extra mile; thus for example: (1). Surat/Quran 2:42 – And do not cloak (or confuse) the truth with falsehood. Do not suppress the truth knowingly….(2) Surat/Quran 2:193 – Keep on fighting against them until mischief ends, and the way prescribed by God prevails. But if they desist, then know that hostility is only against wrongdoers….(3) Surat/Quran 4:75 – And why should you not fight in the cause of Allah, and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)? Men, women, and children whose cry is, “Our Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors, and raise for us from thee, one who will protect, and raise for us from thee, one who will help. [Courtesy of several scholarly interpretations]

FROM HISTORIANS AND EDUCATORS (1) Life must be lived forward, but it can ONLY be understood backward. – Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher…(2) Those who don’t know their History are probably not doing well in their English and Maths – Patrick J’Orouke, American Journalist….(3) History is who we are, and why we are the way we are – David McCullough, American Historian…(4) 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, like DULL and STUPID Liberia] – President Ching Jing Ping, China....(5) A good book[or article] is an education of the heart; it enlargens your sense of human possibility; [it educates you about] what the human nature is, [it also educates you] about what happens in the world. [For] it is a creator of inwardness. –Susan Sontag, American Writer

In direct connection to Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion, Liberia’s incredible level of mischief, coupled with the level of excessiveness of its confusion MUST be confronted with massive Truth Telling and detailed solution options, so please sacrifice your time to read and re-read these articles well. Thanks.

Note: Apart from other smaller articles for your ongoing reading, we have 7 main revolutionary pamphlets, with four addendums or extensions, totaling 11 revolutionary pamphlets. To save time for reading the main contents in each of the 7 main pamphlet, we urge you to only bother yourself with the reading of the acknowledgement sections of only two of these 7 BIG pamphlets – these two include the pamphlet, “Why is this case considered a revolutionary and game-changing one for Liberia”, which is a stand-alone and a ‘MUST read pamphlet” in its entirety, and the pamphlet, “Why Do We Need a Complete Revolution and How can we go about it”. The remaining 5 pamphlets carry the same content in those preliminary sections, which you don’t necessarily have to go through, once you have done so for the two pamphlets named above. Meanwhile, these preliminary or introductory sections (i.e. the acknowledgements and the dedications) are relatively the same across all of our pamphlets, especially the last 5, which are entirely homogeneous. Thanks for helping to save time, and enhancing your revolutionary reading experience. SPEICAL NOTES:  Because of our incapacity to verify every name by its exact spelling or to get the full names of some of our sources for one reason or the other, we are placing single quotes around names whose spellings we were unable to verify and names we also failed to get in full. We apologize if any of your names fall into this category.  Entries on our table of contents don’t necessarily suggest subtitles in the main work. They are basically meant to provide clues for what ideas form part of the content on each page  Because we are not Liberians, talk less about being Americo-Liberians, who ABSOLUTELY

hate to ‘right’ their wrongs wherever they fall short, and will prefer to go on living in their MESS forever, we, of the Plain Truth Revolution, are open to corrections and updates to these documents or articles every step of the way. We therefore encourage you to please feel free to send your corrections, comments, opinions etc. to any of our articles at plaintruthrevolution@gmail.com or plaintruthrevolution@yahoo.co.uk etc. and we will assess those points, and where necessary make the appropriate corrections and updates to our work, then repost the affected material to our internet sites, and inform ALL about such development.  Being people of faith in God, we are highly influenced by an argument presented in one

blogpost from a social counsellor called Maria Lourdes Macabasco which suggests that every human being, and by extension every nation or every unit of people, is a house with four rooms – a physical room, a mental room, an emotional room, and a spiritual room. The beautiful argument stressed in Macabassco’s blogpost, which our revolution absolutely agrees with, is that unless we go into each of these four rooms every day to do some clean up, we are never a complete person or entity. Considering these four key dimensions of our national lives, and after having thoroughly dissected our country’s problems, the Plain Truth Revolution is completely convicted that our problem is more spiritual in nature and weight than it is with the other three dimensions, thus, requiring our battle at hand for freedom and the deliverance of our country to be a battle of wills, spirit, and soul, rather than a battle of AK 47s and Rocket Launchers. As such, we back almost all of our arguments with concepts from God’s Holy Scriptures – be it the Bible, the Qu’ran etc. in all of our work because this is our most suitable weapon of choice in this very crucial war without violence for the redemption of the dead soul of our dear country. We believe in the Word of God because all through history it has demonstrated itself as the best lamb to humanity’s feet and the best light to our paths, according to King David. The Word of God illuminates; it clearly reveals to us what is good and what is bad; it shows us who is wise and who is unwise.

It is the ultimate tool in helping us learn the best possible life to live. God’s Word is true, plain and simple. It is the only thing that can sanctify or clean up a very DIRTY, NASTY and DANGEROUS situation like ours in this country. God’s Word is living, active, powerful, and sharper than any double-edged sword – piercing even to the division of the soul and spirit, and of the joint and marrow, and it is the discerner of the thoughts of man’s heart. The Word of God, our Plain Truth Revolution’s weapon of choice, is the only best weapon used for very close range combats rather than long range warfare, and our country’s battle requires a closerange engagement.  Again, based upon our background of faith, and with the Word of God being our weapon of

choice, we are massive in our information gathering, information dissemination, awareness creation, and all of our other civic actions for that matter because the Word of God has instructed us to do so. For instance, in the Book of Proverbs Chapter 18, verses 13, 15, and 18, we are thought and instructed respectively that the first step, and yea the first principle, to solving any [gigantic] problem, like our country’s problem at hand, is to gather all the facts first, NOT some; the second step is to open up to new ideas, or to invite more ideas in solving the problem, and the third step is to create room for hearing from all, or the both sides of the divide, or parties to the problem. Our writings therefore are massive because they are not intended merely for sensation; they are meant to speak for every generation of our country (past, current and future); they are intended to provide useful leads for all of the 7 big constituencies that our revolution represents etc. Parts of our presentation may appear rather unconventional; some of the facts and arguments we present may appear overemphasized or oversimplified; our article titles also may appear too long and verbose etc. whichever the case, to your inconvenience. If this ever happens, we beg your pardon to muster the courage and read on; make your own sense out of the work. For we are revolutionaries, battling by all means to change a terrible situation, God willing, that sadly no one in our country wants to ever bother themselves trying to solve from the very root, for 2 centuries now. We therefore have vowed never to be restricted – though in a positive and constructive sense – too much by conventions, norms, or protocols. One of our big time inspirations, President John F. Kennedy, America’s 35th President has told us, “Conformity is the jailer of progress and the enemy of growth”, while another compatriot of his, American guitarist and music writer, Frank Zappah says, “Without deviation from the norm, there can never be any progress.” We are inspired by these admonishments to use our common sense in going to the extra mile to make our points very clear and the arguments granular. And sometimes single facts presented many times only serve to support different arguments. The  Acknowledgement Section for each one of the pamphlets is divided into three – (a) the personal acknowledgement section, which highlights units, individuals, institutions, and nations that the vision bearer of this enterprise and the primary author of these literatures himself has decided to give credit to for impacting his life; (b) the general revolutionary acknowledgement section, which features every entity, individual, institution, and nation whose influence and activities have facilitated the right knowledge, enlightenment, conditions and so forth to make this revolutionary idea possible; and (c) the Special Revolutionary acknowledgement section, the last section of our acknowledgment which brings in each party that has helped verify all of our historical research findings by adding the current reality flavor to them. (This is a MUST read section as it serves as the main trigger to kindle your final decision about whether to buy in to the Plain Truth Revolutionary idea or to reject it). Welcome on board.

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PERSONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CONJUAL (‘PARENTAL) FAMILY MEMBERS

Name

Relationship

Tarkpor Kartee Moinma G. Kartee Martha Kartee Leahmon Karatee Zaye Kartee Parlone Kartee Zlanwohn Kartee Rufee Kartee Mama Kartee Yarkernah Kartee Zota Kartee Joseph Kartee Zlanser Kartee Mama Kartee

Father Mother (*) Stepmother Sister “ “ “ “ (*)

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

Brother “ “ “ Sister

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

# 1. 2. 3.

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14

Name Alice Wamah Joyful (Preston) Kartee Courage Kartee Stamina Kartee “Festus Johnson”

Relationship Partner/Fiancée Son Daughter Son Foster Son

BLENDED FAMILY Name Relationship Nathaniel Doeward 1st Foster Fthr (*) Beatrice Kor 1st Foster Mthr Ma Filani Kamara Foster Grandma (Danane, La Cote d’Ivoire, *) Soree Kamara 2nd Foster Fthr (Abidjan, La Cote d’Ivoire) Ma Yeilieh Mangoe Paternal GrandMa Ma Menkapoe Tomah Maternal GrandMa John Leabeh Uncle Meiway Barlea “ Augustine Kotee Lohnpea Mentee “ Austin S. Kartee “ Dearzrua Deemi Cousin Histin Deemi “ Alice Fahngalloh Aunty

“IN-LAW” RELATIVES Name Relationship Solomon Wamah “Father-in-Law” (current relationship) Mary Wamah “Mother-in-law” (“) Irene Wamah “Sister-in-law” (“) Linda Julius “Sister-in-law” (“) Mary David “Sister-in-law” (“) Solomon Wamah, Jr. “Brother-in-Law” (“)

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

IMMEDIATE (NUCLEAR)

FAMILY

BLENDED FAMILY cont’d Helena Mango “ (*) Helena Mentee “ Augustine Kotee Uncle

16. 17 18.

TWO PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS Deborah Cringar - former fiancée a. Ruth Sherman - Mother b. Sam Cringar - Father (*) c. Robert Tarpeh – Uncle d. Saturday Tarpeh – Aunt Massa Kennedy – former fiancée a. Hawa Kennedy – Mother b. Mr. Kennedy - Father c. Bunch Kennedy – Brother d. Larry Kennedy - Brother e. Bill Kennedy - Brother

EXTENDED RELATIVES 1. 2. 3. 4.

Peat Norman 5. Paul Fanyen Henry Mango 6. Rachel Nuah Mendin Mango 7. Allen Subah Lehmie Mango OTHER RELATIVES

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Name Isaac Dahn, Sr. (*) Isaac Dahn, Jr. Michael Dahn Dahnboy Dahn Gbeahn Fahngalloh John Harmon

VERY SPECIAL RECOGNITION Name Relationship

Doris Zor a. Gloria (Daughter) b. Delcontee (“) c. Prince son

Landlady [This is a woman of very exceptional patience and consiration]

Tony T. Bleh a. Ladia Bleh (Wife)

“Beyond Friend “

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

ALL-WEATHER FRIENDS (GENERAL) Name Alphonso Togba Manju Kamara Musa Barry Nulleh Ngafuan Samuel Wallace, Sr Esther Wallace Samuel Wallace Jr. Saah Joe John Mulbah Steven Chea Abdulai Yen Morris Paye

US PRESIDENTS THAT IMPACTED OUR LIVES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

HAVE

# 1. 2.

GREATLY

George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Franklin D. Roosevelt John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Barack Obama

OTHER WORLD LEADERS THAT GREATLY IMPACTED OUR LIVES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

iv ALL-WEATHER FRIENDS (WORKMATES etc.) 1. Victor Badio 2. Bobby Brown 3. Andrew Gibson 4. Veronica Kinapoe 5. Joseph Dennis 6. Philip Sassie 7. Isaac Karmon 8. Paul Jappah 9. Sam Fannie 10. William Morris 17. Alex C. Knuckles 11. Darlington Gbeior 18. Timothy Holt 12. Robert Beer 19. McDonald Wlemus 13. Charles Sherman 14. Augustine Williams 15. Samuel Musa 16. Patrick Wreh

3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

HAVE

Ho Chi Minch 13. Nelson Mandela Vladimir Lenin 14. Robert Mugabe Mao Zedong 15. Hifikepunye Pohamba Deng Xiaoping Chi Jing Ping Gus Hall Eugene V. Debbs Steward Alexander John Bachtell Felix Houphoet Boigny Thomas Sankara Jomo Kenyatta

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

MIND MOLDERS/MORAL COACHES/ DIRECT MENTORS Name The Seventh Day Adventist Church All of the Instructors under whose voices I have sat (R. S. Caulfield, Unification Town, Margibi County; Protestant Methodist Resource Center, Danane, La Cote d’Ivoire; University of Liberia; Cuttington University Graduate School etc.) Kamau M. Lizwelicha, USAID/GEMAP Sophie Hobbs, USAID/GEMAP John M. Dukuly John K. Wangolo Harry A. Greaves, Jr. THOSE WHO HAVE PROFESSIONALLY IMPACTED OUR LIFE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER Name S. Alfred P. Harris, II 7. Edwin M. Snowe, Jr. Richard B. Devine 8. Aaron J. Wheagar Aletha K. Hoff 9. T. Nelson Williams,II Belle Y. Dunbar 10. Jackson F. Doe, Jr. B. Felix Zeekeh 11. McDonald Wlemus Timothy Holt 12. Alexander Knuckles

FOUR COUNTRIES THAT HAVE INSPIRED US THE MOST 1. The United States of America 2. China 5. Japan 8. The UK 3. Russia 6. Switzerland 9. France 4. Ivory Coast 7. Republic of Ireland 10. Israel

GENERAL REVOLUTIONARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THOSE WHO HAVE PROVIDED THE ENLIGHTENMENT, PLUS THE OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE CONDITIONS TO MAKE THIS REVOLUTION POSSIBLE

A. INDIVIDUALS i. LOCAL # 1. 2. 3. 4.

Name President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Dr. Elwood Dun Dr. Amos Sawyer Dr. Yarsuo Weh-Dorliae

# 1. 2. 3. 4.

# 1. 2.

D. ACADEMICIANS/PROFESSIONALS i. LOCAL Name Jacob “Zumah” Jallah Samuel Toweh Martin Kollie Jacob Massaquoi ii. INTERNATIONAL Name Karl Marx John Maynard Keynes

ii. INTERNATIONAL # 1. 2. 3. 4.

E. HISTORIANS i. LOCAL # Name 1. Joseph Saye Guannu 2. Professor Tuan Wleh

Name President Barack Obama Michelle Obama Amb. Deborah Malac Karin Langrin

Prof. Alhaji G. V. Kromah

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

ii. INTERNATIONAL Name Hugh Mason Brown Dr. James Ciment Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiatta Hezekiah Niles Jo Sullivan

B. INSITITUTIONS i.

# 1. 2. 3. # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

LOCAL Name Coalition for the transformation of Lib. Liberia Institute for Public Integrity Center for the exchange of intellectual opinions ii. INTERNATIONAL Name League of Nations United Nations/UNMIL Global Witness Amnesty International Transparency International U S Department of State Conciliation Resources Publish What You Pay Coalition Finance Uncovered, UK US Department of Justice

IT FIRMS/NETWORKS i. LOCAL # Name 1. Lone Star Cell MTN 2. Cellcom Communications 3. Nova Phone

ii. INTERNATIONAL # 1. 2.

Name Google Facebook

3. Microsoft 4.YouTube

5. Twitter

F. REVOLUTIONARIES # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Name Identities George Washington US Mahatma Gandhi India Martin Luther King, Jr. US Nelson Mandela South Africa Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe Mao Zedong China Deng Xioping China Che Guevara Cuba/Bolivia Jose Mujica Ecuador Fidel Castro Cuba G. THE PRESS i. LOCAL (ELECTRONIC AND PRINT) # Name Type 1. Liberia Broadcasting Corporation/Sys. (LBS/ELBC) Electronic 2. Farbric FM 101.1 “ 3. Voice FM 102.7 “ 4. Truth FM 96.1 “ 5 Sky FM 107 “ 6. Love FM “

vi 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. ii. # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

THE PRESS cont’d Love FM “ Power/Red Power FM “ National Chronicle/Hot Pepper Newspaper Print/online FrontPage Africa “ In Profile Daily “ Public Agenda “ Daily Observer “ Focus “ Heritage “ Spirit of Truth “ INTERNATIONAL (ELECTRONIC AND PRINT) Name Type British Broadcasting Corp. Electronic Radio France International “ China Radio International “ Cable News Network “/TV Al-Jazeera “ New York Times Print UK Guardian “

iii. INDVIDUAL JOURNALISTS A. LOCAL # Name Type 1. Rodney Sieh Local 2. Julius Jeh Local 3. Henry Costa “ 4. T. Max Jlateh “ 5. Mary Williams “ 6. Tetee Gebro “ 7. Tamba Johnny “ 8. Darious Zinnah “ 9. Jordan Poronpea Diaspora 10. Christian Nelson “ 11. Toyouwa Harris “/Analyst 12. George Fahnbulleh “/Analyst 13. Jah Johnson Editor 14. Jerry Wehtee Wion Contributor 15. Jones Nhinson Williams “ B. 1. 2. 3.

INDIVIDUAL JOURNALISTS (INT’L) Robin White Elizabeth Blunt George Turner

H. POLITICIANS/OPINION LEADERS i. LOCAL # Name Identity 1. Prince Johnson Senator 2. Henry Yallah “ 3. Dallas Gweh “ 4. Emmanuel Nuquay Representative 5. Tiawon Gongloe Lawyer 6. Negbalee Warner “ 7. Christiana Tah “ 8. Koffi Woods “ 9. Harry Greaves (*) Economist 10. Sam Jackson “ 11. Simeon Freeman Politician 12. Amara Konneh “ 13. Darious Dailon ” 14. Mary Lorene Brown Educator 15. Zayzay Pewee Other 16. Francis Tamba “ 17. Tabarosa Tarponweh “ ii. # 1. 2. 3. 4.

INTERNATIONAL Name Dr. Charles Johnson 5. George Schuyler Sir John Simon 6. Mr. A. E. Yap Prof. S. Raymond Buell 7. Neils Haghns Dr. Fred P.M. Van der Kraij

I. CLERGIES i. LOCAL # Name 1. Solomon Juah 2. Jensen Wallace 3. Simeon Dunbar 4. Evangelist Charles 5. Pastor Sirleaf 6. Kortu Brown 7. Samuel A. Brewer 8. Rev. Gontee 9. Pastor Gemini Getteh 10. Rev. Foday Karpeh 9. Ali Krayee ii. # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Faith/Religion Christian “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ Muslim

INTERNATIONAL Name Faith/Religion Ibn Al Qayyim Muslim Hesham A. Hassaballa “ Mohammed Banonleat “ Friday Oravbierre Christian Rick Warren “

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SPECIAL REVOLUTIONARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Steve Jobs once said, “A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences, so they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem.” He then concludes, “The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better designs we will have.” With this exhortation from Mr. Jobs, we disclose here that on the overall, our motivation to embark on this revolutionary project was at first primarily inspired by a quest to do something about our country’s NASTY, SHAMEFUL history, but then we needed a strong backing too from current events, so, we had to painfully take 4 round years to see if our convictions from historical researches could be strongly backed by enough of empirical proofs from today’s realities – knowing that this time span was reasonable enough conventionally, for such a serious research work. Consequently, the below current event accounts, opinions, experiences, realities etc. have helped us truly connect the dots and thus strengthened our case for this inescapable revolution. We doubt it, that any well-meaning person would read the current event accounts of these narratives, sufficiently backed by history, and still think that we, as a people, can use reforms or gradualist approaches to handle our country’s deadly problem and redeem ourselves from this untold nightmare called nationhood, gain our rightful human status, and make our Creator proud of making us too in His own image. The list below constitutes our Plain Truth Revolution’s revered heroes and heroines through whose inputs our revolution has finally become JUSTIFIED God willing, and we recognize and celebrate them as our special acknowledgements forever. Their collective message to us, in short is: “Plain Truth Revolution, please go ahead, we join you, and stand by you, whichever way possible.” Those heroes and heroines therefore are as follows, among many more to come up in later publications by the grace of God. We’ve placed their contributions under different subheadings. We will start with the historical accounts of how the Black Americans’ Liberia was pronounced DOOMED by its conceivers and designers even before it was established, and how this curse has been acutely pronounced, warned about, and decried by different actors, including prominent people in world affairs up to this point. This will be followed by different accounts of the NASTY state of Liberia from current event realities. Please note that apart from numbered or bulleted names, bolded names of individuals and institutions within any of the text in this section represent some of our special acknowledgements. Welcome to our very special acknowledgement section:

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SOME OF THE GREATEST SOURCES FROM WHICH WE DRAW OUR MOTIVATION A. INDIVIDUALS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

‘Jensen’ Wallace Pastor Simeon Dunbar Pastor Sirleaf, Presenter, Pastor Friday Oravbiere, Pastor Rick Warren President Barack Obam President Chi Jing Ping President John F. Kennedy President Thomas Jefferson Barry Goldwater Hillary Clinton Lee Kuan Yew Karl Marx Mao Zedong

15. Vladamir Lenin 16. John Batchel 17. Eugene Debbs 18. Pank Yan Zeeahoe 19. Sheila Paskman 20. E. Johnson Sirleaf 21. Julius Jeh 22. Nagbe Sloh 23. Lewis Brown 24. Jacob ‘Zuma’ Jallah 25. Irasmus Gaye 26. Jah Johnson 27. John S. Morlu 28. Eratus Bortu 29. Sam Webb

B. INSTITUTIONS 1. Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS/ELBC) 2. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) II. HISTORICALS ACCOUNTS + PROOFS FROM CURRENT EVENTS OF LIBERIA’S MESSY FOUNDATION A. INDIVIDUALS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.

By James Ciment (2x) 28. Min. Moses Jackson Nancy Oku Bright (2x) 29. Miatta Fahnbulleh Pastor Solomon Juah 30. Sen. Dallas Gweh Dr. Charles Johnson 31. Aagon Tingba John Randolph, 32. Cllr. Benedict Sannon US Pres. Abraham Lincoln 33. Jonathan Gant Jerome J. Verdier 34 Jonathan Paye-Layleh Dede Dolopei, Oumu K. Syllah, Bishop Arthur F. Kulah, Sheikh Kafumba F. Konneh, Pearl Brown Bull, Gerald B. Coleman, John H. T. Stewart, Massa Washington, Henrietta Joy Abena Mensa Bonsu Hugh Mason Brown Dr. James Ciment Wikipedia/History of Liberia Koffi Woods Dr. Amos Sawyer Dean Johnson Wilfred Bangourah “Darious Dillon” Jim Hunt Brad Henry Min. George Werner

INDIVIDUALS cont’d 35. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 36. Mr. Harry Greaves 37. Ambassador Miatta Fahnbulleh 38. Makita Redd/Wreh, 39. Jonathan Pay-Lay Leh 40. Rep. George Mulbah 41. Rep. Alex Grant 42. Isaac Redd 43. Rep. Gabriel Nyenkan 44. Minister Gyudee Moore 45. Jerelimick Piah, 46. Nagbe Sloh 47. Senator Henry Yallah 48. Mr. ‘Tarbarosa’ ‘Tarponweh 49. Liberian Girls trafficked to Lebanon 50. D. Maxwell Kemayan 51. Dr. Randolph McClain 52. Cllr. ‘Afian’ Sherman 53. John S. Morlu 54. Samora Wolokollie B.

INSTITUTIONS

1. 2. 3. 4.

Global Witness UN Security Council Farbric F.M. Liberia’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission 5. US Congress III. SITUATIONS OR REALITIES THAT FURTHER JUSTIFY LIBERIA’S DOOMED FATE A. INDIVIDUALS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

Steve Kolubah, Amb. Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2x) Rep. Richmond Anderson Mo Ibrahim, 18. ‘Musa’ ‘Menipaket Dumoi’ 19. John S. Morlu Rep. Gabriel Smith 20. Julius Jeh Sen. Thomas Grupee 21. R. Bhofal Chambers Karin Langrin 22. Sen. Oscar Cooper Deborah Malac 23. Saah Gborlie Amb. Tina Intelmann 24. Nicolas Cook Ismail Serageldin 25. Dr. James Ciment Dr. Amos Sawyer 26. Tycon J. Nathaniel Barnes 27. Sir John Simon Keith Morris 28. Darious Deylon ‘Dayboy’ 29. Lawrence Yealue Prof. Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiatta

ix INDIVIDUALS cont’d 32. Tamba Johnny 33. Francis Tamba 34. Robert A. Sirleaf 35. Austin Kawal 36. Darious Zinnah 37. Indi Cal 38. Blamo Nelson

VI. 39. Samora Wolokollie 40. Acarious Gray 41. Augustine Ngafuan 42. Thomas Doe-Nah 43. Dr. Amos Sawyer 44. Cllr. Elijah Saah 45. Rodney Sieah 46. Rev. Lurther Tarpeh

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

1. 2. 3. 4. V.

THE ENDURING DANGERS THAT LIBERIA POSES TO ITSELF AND THE REST OF THE WORLD 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Global Witness 14. Common Sense Cllr. Thompson Adibayo Analyst (5x) Cllr. Dempster Brown, 15. Abraham Lincoln Bishop Wilmot ‘Burbroh 16. Oku Bright Gladys Johnson 17. Carl Victor Senator Comany Wisseh 18. Farbric NightTime George Dalton 19. President Obama Mulbah Morlu 20. Tom Woewiyou Robert W. Clower 21. Sam Zemurray Mitchel Harwitz 22. Lee Christmas A. A. Walters 23. United Fruit Comp North Western University 24. Andrew Preston Oxford University 25. Maj. Gen Smedley Butler 26. Com. Matthew Calbraith Perry

27. Cornel R. West 28. J. Yanqui Zaza, 29. Sarah Chayes 30. Noam Chomsky 31. William Blum 32. Nicolas Cook, 33. Library of Congress 34. Dana J. Hyde 35. Wendell Nimley 36. Evangelist ‘Charles 37. Min. Amara Konneh, 38. President Nhuru Kenyatta 39. President Barak Obama 40. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

41. Cllr. Gloria Scott 42. John Morlu 43. Rebecca Murray 44. Philibert Brown 45. Brownie Samukai 46. Martin K. N. Kollie 47. Donald Trump, now US President Elect 48. Mulbah Morulu 49. Robert W. Clower 50. Benedict Sannon 52. ELBC Chris Sirleaf 53. Sen Jewel H. Taylor 54. Dr. Togba Tipoteh 55. Radio France

7. Hassan Kiawu 8. Simeon Freeman Prof. Wilson Tarpeh, 9. Antonio Gutierrez Sen. Geraldine D. Sheriff Melvin ‘Tayglay’ Weah Johnson Bhofal Chambers (formerly Jallah ‘Langlin’) WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

1. President Abdou Fattah Al Sessay 2. Antonio Gutierrez 4. Mr. Peter Graaf 3. President Barack Obama 5. Rebecca Nanyou

LIBERIA, A HUGE 21ST CENTURY ECONOMIC WASTE

Mr. Karl Marx 5. Sam Jackson Common Sense Analyst 6. President Obama Wikipedia 7. Linda Yu President Sirleaf 8. ‘Hewyikoo Kaiyuma

Thomas Jefferson Tarkpor R. Kartee

VII.

B. INSTITUTIONS 1. Conciliation Resources/CR 2. The League of Nations IV.

PEOPLE OR INSTITUTIONS WHOSE IDEAS JUST MATCH OURS

ABOUT OUR MEMBERSHIP FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE PTR 1. 2. 3. 4.

Roland S. Kartee Alice Wamah Joseph Kartee Tony T. Bleh

5. Preston Kartee 6. Courage Kartee 7. Stamina Kartee

FIRST NEW MEMBERS OF THE PTR 1. Jamel Constance OUR CURRENT DIRECT/INDIRECT MEMBERSHIP STRENGTH 1. Dejure Members: All members of our 7 big constituencies, mentioned in the “Dedication Section” of every written work or article of our revolution 2. Defacto Members (*have all right to decline publicly if not convicted or interested): All those we have acknowledged in our works. For they have always believed in us, and will no doubt believe in our dreams for the country we all equally own. OUR ONLINE MEMBERSHIP FIGURE (PEOPLE THAT HAVE AGREED WITH OUR DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA INCLUDING JOINING OUR GROUPS AND ONLINE COMMUNITIES) 3. Facebook…………….._____ 4. YouTube…………….._____ 5. Google +……………._____ 6. Twitter………………._____ **These figures will be revealed subsequently.

DEDICATION Our Plain Truth Revolution represents seven (7) big constituencies of God’s children (including past, current and future generations of our country and all of our well-wishers elsewhere) to whom we are very proud to always dedicate every work or article we write, and action we take. Our distinguished constituencies include: (a) Millions in their graves today who have died at the direct cause of Americo-Liberian statesponsored and state-promoted mischief, mayhem, atrocities and other criminal activities; (b) Millions in their graves today who have died completely unaccomplished, even though they had vast potentials, but these potentials could never be explored and exploited due to America’s imperialist activities here and the Americo-Liberians’ explicit vendetta campaign against us; (c) Millions alive in our country who have missed out, or given up on the realization of their dreams and fullest potentials in life, all because their country works out every policy behind the scenes to stifle such possibility under the guise of running government; (d) The millions who have suffered untold kangaroo justice at the hands of the ever rotten Americo-Liberian Justice System in this country, and continue to suffer this same fate over and over today; (e) Our entire future generations for whom this cruel national arrangement has laid no foundation, but yet expects all of the magic of nation-building and society-stabilization etc. to be performed by them (i.e. these hopeless, “deprived and destroyed in advance” future generations); (f) citizens in the diaspora who worry a lot about what’s happening to their country, but are just unable or incapacitated, one way or the other, to impact the situation, and (g) foreign friends who love our country, and love us personally as friends, but keep worrying, what the causes are, that this country will not wake up to the true meaning of nationhood, especially for the benefit of all of its citizens etc. All this means that it is only the devil, or the strongest of his lieutenants, who would want to thwart such a great agenda like this Plain Truth Revolution for God’s children.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Acknowledgment………………..…………………………………………………..........i 2. Dedication…………..……………………………………………………………............x 3. References………………………………………………………………………………..a 4. Introduction………….……………………………………………………………...........1 5. INTOSAI on auditors’ role in fighting corruption……………………...………………..1 6. What does attempting to fight corruption mean in Liberia…………………………........1 7. Several definitions of the word corruption……………………………………………….2 8. The different levels or scales of corruption…………………………………………........2 9. The different categories of corruption………………………………………………........2 10. Some selective accounts of corruption’s damaging impacts on society…………............3 11. Seven points proving that Liberia = corruption and Corruption = Liberia………......4- 16 A. Liberia’s first set of political and security-sector corruptions…………………4 B. Blatant Corruption in the choice of the country’s name and emblems………...7 C. How massive political corruption characterized the deposition of E.J. Roye …8 D. How massive corruption damages all of Liberia’s loans- two examples………8 E. How corruption damages all of Liberia’s Concession deals – few examples…10 F. Few key questions to be derived from these kinds of accounts……………….11 G. How Firestone recruited workers in Liberia, and how Portugal thwarted this Nasty trend………………………………………………………………...12 H. How presidents wanting to fight corruption, Liberia’s strongest foundation stone end up with disgrace or even loss of life………………………………..13 i. Tubman’s TWP’s stance on corruption and his own performance……...15 ii. Tolbert, Doe, Taylor and Bryant on Corruption…………………………16 iii. Charles Taylor’s experience……………………………………………..16 12. How indigenous are 16:1 against Americo-Liberians in the fight against Corruption****…………………………………………………………16 13. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the last straw that has broken the massive Americo-Liberian corruption machine and hegemonic camel’s back……………..16 - 65 A. Why Ellen is considered an ideal reference for helping conclude the Black American settlers’ ‘ginger bread boy’ in West Africa………………………16 B. Before becoming President, Ellen claimed she knew these 8 key things or national problems better than anyone else………………………………..17 C. Some of the ways that Ellen has performed against these 8 things she claimed she knew better about Liberia than everyone else……………….....20 D. A few examples of how President Sirleaf and her government have been sustaining and promoting corruption…………………………………..35 i. Liberia, on her Code of Conduct, her deeply flawed national constitution, and the UN Convention Against Corruption…...………………………..36 ii. Ellen and son’s $3.7 billion waiver and their manipulation of oil blocks bidding processes………………………………………………...37

Ellen’s $160 million RIA scandal, her defense of corrupt officials, and her practice of reshuffling or reassigning corrupt officials………..37 iv. Robert Kilby, Ellen Corkrum and Cllr. Sherman’s take on the country’s corruption situation……………………………………..40 v. How the government treats and reacts to integrity institutions’ reports…………………………………………………………………41 vi. Ellen’s description of corruption and her call for special corruption court……...............................................................................................42 E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, seemingly last un-rehabilitated settler president……….42 F. How accolades are given Madam Sirleaf to help her overcome challenges, but to no fruition, unfortunately…………………………………………..……43 G. Some of the results of Ellen’s ‘good’ leadership thus far……………………...45 i. How the Fund For Peace sums up Liberia’s performance and health….46 ii. How Dr. Chambers assesses Madam Sirleaf’s performance…………...47 iii. How truth and honesty can boost a leader’s ability to achieve greatly…47 iv. How Ellen could have been a good example of following America’s footsteps …………………………………………………….47 14. A good example of honesty in Obama’s excellence………………………………........48 15. Why Ellen can never be like President Obama or any American President for that matter………………………………………………………………………………50 16. Reasons why Americo-Liberians need to be booted out of our public arena…………..51 17. Let’s pay heed to Nick Clegg’s warning………………………………………….........51 18. Call for Liberian Men of God to follow the examples of Martin Luther King and Desmond Tutu……………………………………………………………………...51 19. Lessons for Liberian Men of God from Mr. Gordon Hinckley and Bsh. Tutu……........51 20. Ours, and MLK’s message to foreign partners……..………………………………......52 21. Our strong parting words……………………………………………………………….52 iii.

INTRODUCTION An INTOSAI article once contended that if the top authority; for example, the Chief Executive Officer of a company, the Minister of a ministry, or the President of a country is involved in corrupt practices, auditors will never make any substantial contribution or impact in the fight against corruption [either] because these top authority elements will do all they can in their powers to prevent auditors from getting access to the right information relating to their corrupt activities [or they will fight to kill any reports from auditors about their devilish corrupt acts]. Note: INTOSAI is the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. This devilish determination even becomes deadlier when someone in top authority figures out that a subject or subordinate is resolved to criticize or expose their corrupt acts or deals. That subject or subordinate even risks his or her own life if it is established that he/she wants to be a threat in whatever way to official corruption. In the case of Liberia, most interestingly, someone trying to pose any form of threat to official corruption in any entity or institution may not know initially that they are embarking painfully on a bigger enterprise that spans far beyond that entity or institution, and that they are venturing into uncharted waters; meaning, they are attempting to fight against the current; they are attempting to fight against the bedrock of an entire society; they are attempting to undermine a solid foundation that has been laid for close to two hundred years; they are attempting to overthrow a well rooted economic, cultural and political status quo; they are attempting to fight against an established and official way of life etc. Indeed, they may not know definitely that they will have the devil to pay for such a determination. Of recent in Liberia, actors such as Cllr. Michael Allison, a bold citizen openly trying to expose corruption in the first branch of the Black Americans’ (Liberian) Legislature met up with some very mysterious death in the very process. May his soul rest in peace. It however takes so much of faith to undertake this kind of enterprise anywhere for the matter. Another more moderate reaction from the authorities in Liberia for those trying to pose such a threat to their status quo (i.e. entrenched or endemic culture of corruption) is to effect some arbitrary dismissal against the suspected threat. People like Prof. Tuan Wleh, Thomas Keydor and others are living witnesses. They (meaning the Liberian powers that be) will cruelly abuse their offices and authority in the spirit of political expediency just to ensure they firmly maintain this grip on the NASTY culture of CORRUPTION. But a little piece of advice here from the Plain Truth Revolution is that with this reality of threat however, the fate of suffering some form of arbitrary and illegal dismissal from job should not deter any true hero and advocate of social justice and the emancipation of their people. With this brief preface presented above, let us now begin our discussions about corruption with emphasis on Liberia – with several definitions of the word CORRUPTION, and then outline some of its deadliest effects on human progress from other’s own experiences and perspectives, then hit back home to how America and her Americo-Liberians began the foundation of their “now failed Liberia” with CORRUPTION. We will further continue with

explanations and illustrations about how corruption has been the normal way of life; continues to be; and will remain the way of life of Liberia, unless we uproot this NASTY foundation and build a new nation on more promising principles. We finally will conclude the pamphlet with our revolutionary call to action. Worried about the roadmap to building a new and excellently promising national foundation, we urge you to worry no more, as the Plain Truth Revolution can guide our country, the Grain Coast (Liberia) through this process very successfully God willing. First off, corruption, as sadly understood by Liberians, is not restricted to mere business, or business management practices. It is not only about financial improprieties as most people, especially most Liberian people restrict it to. According to Wikipedia, corruption has several key definitions as follows: 1. From a philosophical, theological, or moral perspective, corruption refers to a spiritual or moral impurity (dirtiness), or a deviation from an ideal, or set standard. In layman terms, we will say here, corruption means intentionally (in most cases) dodging what is right, or what has been set as a standard, just to satisfy your personal interest. 2. According to Transparency International, corruption is the abuse of entrusted power or authority for private gain, or the illegitimate use of public office for private gains. The same site went on to say that corruption deeply hurts everyone who depends on the integrity of people in positions of authority and trust. 3. Greek and Italian philosophers, Aristotle and Cicero define the adjective CORRUPT as both “utterly broken” and “the abandonment of good habits” respectively. 4. From the Perspective of the UN Office for Drugs Abuse and Crime Prevention, corruption is an administrative or financial impropriety that takes place in the form of bribery, kickbacks, [fake] commissions, or other benefits to both the “corruptor “ and the “corrupted” without leaving any trace in the official records. Corruption can occur at different levels or scales, including petty corruption, grand corruption, and systemic (endemic) corruption. The last happens when corruption has eaten up every fabric of a given society, like the Liberian scenario. Corruption can also be placed into different categories, including Political or Administrative Corruption (examples: nepotism, favoritism, or using coercion); Police or General Security Sector Corruption (examples: police or security personnel flouting official codes of conduct, falsifying evidence against an accused, or using coercion etc.); Judicial Corruption (examples: improper sentencing of convicted criminals, bias in the hearing and judgment of cases, and so forth), Economic Corruption (examples: bribery, fraud, embezzlement, cooking the books, among others.). Nothing deals the greatest blow to mankind’s collective success, wellbeing, or general progress equal to corruption. Here are a few observations from different sources about the

very damaging impacts that corruption has on our collective wellbeing and development as a people: a. Hector Boham and Sam Asamoah of the Corruption and Fraud Audit Consortium of Ghana had the following to say about corruption. According to the duo, corruption causes high prices of goods and services; corruption results into reduced investment, which in turn leads to reduced goods and services, all of which end up to undue inflation; corruption makes donors uninterested in committing themselves to help; it leads to lowered foreign direct investment; it causes decrease in tax revenue, which thus leads to government’s inability to finance budget expenditure (Liberia’s biggest problem now, also called budget deficit or budget short fall); corruption leads to the building of inferior public infrastructure; it leads to serious uncertainties in economic transactions; and of course, corruption, indeed, badly obstructs all activities relating to economic growth. b. Then next comes the United Nations Family: UNODC Executive Director, Yury Fedotov said, “corruption is a serious roadblock to economic development. It aggravates inequality and injustice, and it undermines stability, especially in the world’s most vulnerable, regions.” For the UNODC itself, it disclosed that “Evidence shows that corruption harms poor people more than anyone else; it stifles economic growth and diverts desperately needed funds from education, healthcare and other public services. Then the UN Boss, Mr. Ban Kii Moon himself, made these remarks in 2009 on the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day. He said, “When public money is stolen for private gain, it means fewer resources to build schools, hospitals, roads, and water treatment facilities etc. When foreign aid is diverted into private bank accounts, major infrastructure projects come to a complete halt. Corruption makes fake and substandard drugs to be dumped onto the market, and makes hazardous wastes to be dumped onto our landfill sites and into our seas and oceans.” Mr. Moon concluded, “Corruption hinders economic development by distorting markets and damaging private sector integrity, and that the vulnerable or poor people, in all this trouble, suffer first and suffer the worst.” c. Even the Liberia’s Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC), despite its weakness and virtual uselessness, alludes to the fact that corruption breaks down the rule of law frameworks and leads to imprudent spending and the waste of public resources. The LACC also acknowledges and describes corruption in it profile statements as a major challenge to economic development, poverty alleviation and democratic governance. Having laid all these powerful premises for our main argument, let’s now look at how Liberia began laying the very first foundation block of nationhood on the pillar of corruption, and has since then worked in line with this foundation and has improved upon it so tremendously that in this 21st century, Liberia continues to top the world’s table of corruption – whether formally or informally – among over 200 independent nations and territories on

the face of planet Earth. We have decided to overwhelmingly convince you below that Corruption equals to Liberia and that Liberia is perfectly equal to Corruption with 7 key points: 1) The identical first piece of land acquired to settle the very initial batch of settlers (Americo-Liberians); which means, the very first piece of land on which the building of the new nation, Liberia, began, i.e. Cape Mesurado, was acquired using two different forms of corruption: Political Corruption (in the form of “trick and addifice”), and Security Sector Corruption (an outright coercion, to which when we add more weight, could be declared as an armed robbery). This is how history explains the story. According to sources such as http://en.wikipedi.org/wiki/American-Coloniztion-Society, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History-of-Liberia, Liberian History Up To1847.etc, when the American Colonization Society decided to embark on her clever campaign of “weeding out “bad Black Apples” from the American Society in 1816, they sent their agents to England a year later to seek British permission and assistance in finding land for them in West Africa on which they could dump their increasing number of “unwanted Blacks” that were now posing so much threat to the American Society, since Britain was the first to have started this kind of Black Resettlement Scheme using Sierra Leone as the “dumping ground” in 1787. Britain sent them (the ACS Agents) over to Governor Charles McCarthy, who was in control of things in Sierra Leone. It is not quite clear whether the Americans pursued the talks in Britain by sending a separate team to meet Governor McCarthy in advance of starting their so called “Black Repatriation.” Be that as it may, the ACS prepared her first shipload of around 84 unwanted Black elements bound for Sierra Leone in early 1820 on board Elizabeth the Mayflower, accompanied by both ACS and U.S Government Agents. When Agents Samuel Mills and Ebenezer Burgees, on behalf of the Ship crew disembarked in Sierra Leone and made a request for space to Governor McCarthy, their request was instantly rejected by the Sierra Leonian British Governor. The Governor then probably referred them to Shebro Island, where traditional African Kings were in charge, although still as part of the Sierra Leonean Protectorate or Colony. So the Americans went on to Shebro Island with this embarrassing, altogether 88 member crew. Apprehensive about such mass movement and perhaps already conscious of this “devious” American Scheme, the African Kings at Shebro refused this suspicious crew again, but decided to accommodate them temporarily while they searched other alternatives. By this time, hell was already racing on the Elizabeth family, as they began contracting Malaria and dying in their numbers, but agents on this mission were apparently mandated never to return with this troublesome group back home, come what may! When the news about Elizabeth crew’s deplorable condition hit back home, the U.S Government and the ACS sent a reinforcement and rescue ship, the Nautilus, comprising some more unwanted Blacks and additional ACS and US Government Agents, with a

renewed mandate. It was elements from this reinforcement crew (in person of Jonathan B. Winn and Christian Wiltberger) that sailed Southeast of Sierra Leone, to present day Liberia to search for land since Sierra Leone had refused totally to host these American Immigrants permanently and they were dying by the day. Winn and Wiltberger again failed to secure a land deal in present day Liberia, owing apparently to the same apprehension that gripped the Native Kings at Shebro Island. Badly determined never to return these “bad apples”, or never to fail on this purely business mission, Agents Winn and Wiltberger decided to seek the intervention and possible assistance of US Naval Officials onboard a different American Facility, the Alligator Battleship, that was stationed or patrolling the Atlantic Ocean around West Africa – a covert military support for these ACS missions. Mindful of the African Kings pre-conscience about this “Immoral Scheme” and also determined desperately never to fail again in their quest for some piece of land, as these Black Immigrants kept dying at Shebro, US Navy Surgeon Eli Ayres and Captain Robert Field Stockton from the Alligator Battleship arrived on Cape Mesurado or Ducor (apparently on Winn’s and Wiltberger’s instruction on December 11, 1821 to resume the failed land talks initiated by Winn and Wilbarger; but this time, putting aside all honesty and sincerity and employing tricks, coupled with coercion in order to succeed at all costs, which happened in the end, of course. To first win the attention and sympathy of the Native Kings who had gotten wise up to some extent about this evil American Agenda, Officers Eli and Robert, claiming to be acting on behalf of the US Government, put the Native Kings under the impression that they wanted their crew members (the Black troublesome immigrants) to settle down temporarily at Cape Mesurado, during which time the actual origins of each of these Black Immigrants on various parts of the African continent would be determined, for them to be taken later to their final destinations. THIS WAS THE FIRST MAJOR LIE THAT LAID LIBERIA’S FOUNDATION. IT ALSO CONSTITUTED A DEADLY POLITICAL CORRUPTION. THIS LIE IS INSINUATED ON PAGE 29 OF THE BOOK, LIBERIA HISTORY UP TO 1847. This LIE created some room for the Americas to be considered by the Tribal Kings for further discussions. Cognizant of the fact that such an explanation like the assurance given the Native Kings could never suffice in any report to be sent to their bosses across the Atlantic (i.e. the US Government and the ACS), Messrs.’ Ayres and Stockton had to further maneuver to get the actual mission accomplished once they now had the time to go into discussions with the Native Kings and their subjects at this Second Ducor Conference of December 1821. Eli and Robert needed to give account of a definite land purchase deal and a permanent plan for the settlement of these “Rotten Apples” so as to win them (Eli and Robert) some prominence, and most importantly, to bring a final sigh of relief to the ACS and the American Government. Remember here that the founders of

the ACS and other influential Americans who had embarked on this so called “Black Repatriation Scheme” had used four very dangerous adjectives to describe the targets for this ACS campaign, which included: PROMTERS OF MISCHIEF, MENTALLY INFERIOR BALCKS, MORALLY LAX ELEMENTS, and CRIMINALLY ORIENTED FORMER SLAVES. Nobody plays with history; for all these are the major characteristics of their Liberia today. At these Second Ducor Talks however, the sticky issue was that according to the Tribal Kings and their subjects, their lands were communal and could not be sold. This became the major bone of contention that dragged the talks. It was based on the Native Kings’ especially King Peter and his subjects’ insistence upon this very crucial point that pricked Captain Robertfield Stockton to draw out his pistol (handgun) and point it at the head of King Peter, while at the same time he ordered his warship, the USS Alligator, to begin drawing closer to the Liberian shore where the discussions were being held, in a rather belligerent and frightening fashion – all this to coerce the Native people into giving up their land for some so called purchase arrangement, which the Natives finally did in fear for their lives. A SECOND FORM OF CORRUPTION, COERCION, HAD TAKEN PLACE TO LAY LIBERIA’S SECOND FOUNDATION BLOCK. To make the deal appear as a formal business deal because it must be formally documented and sent to the ACS and the American Government, Eli and Robert arranged a price tag for Cape Mesurado (although the exact amount is not specified in history), and did a part payment in kind, of and INSULTING $300 worth of assorted stale goods, comprising smoke fish, old pairs of shoes, salt etc., promising to pay the unspecified balance in cash at a later unspecified date. Robert and Eli then documented their deal and sent it to their bosses across the Atlantic, while Eli, with a great sigh of relief went on to Sierra Leone (either now Shebro Island or Fourah Bay or both) and started evacuating the remaining Black Americans to their new, criminally found home, Cape Mesurado, a location from where the building of present day dismally failed Liberia began. Two dirty things had happened here – all of which constitute corruption and even theft of property: (a) the poor, helpless Natives had been coerced into giving up their land, Cape Mesurado, something Eli and Robert could never have accomplished on Shebro Island or Fourah Bay because of fear for Governor McCarthy (b) the promise of a balance payment in cash was a big SCAM – this constituted trick and ‘addifice’; a good medium for theft of property. The essence of all these details as you may be aware by now is to justify our case for the redoing of a better national foundation, no matter how cumbersome and arduous, because once we get things all wrong from the very foundation, nothing will ever work well for us even in a million years’ time, unless we come back painfully, and correct these basic, fundamental or structural mistakes. We can’t do this if we don’t know the

details of what’s happening. American former Chief of Staff and prominent statesman, Gen. Collin Powell once said, “Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled (out), or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant” 2) Every account of written and oral history has it that the Black American Immigrants (Grain Coast’s Enduring Nightmare) came and met 16 different African Ethnic Groups, some of which had settled here for up to 7 centuries (Liberian History up to 1847). But because, from the time this 17th troublesome and unproductive ethnic group, the socalled Settlers or the Americo-Liberians, got accommodated through some hook or crook up to date, they had developed the notion that they are the best of human breed; they are the most superior in human quality, while members of the 16 ethnic groups are little lower than human beings etc., everything concerning their new nation, Liberia, explicitly excluded the interests of the indigenous communities. The name of their country, Liberia, was proposed to the ACS in the early 1820s by American Congressman, Robert Goodloe Harper. This name had to be maintained, and every creed – howbeit criminal – that this name stood for; every emblem or symbol of this new nation, had to explicitly match the name. Because the settlers were, and continue to be less intelligent though, another American man, Harvard Law School Professor, John Simon Greenleaf, had to come and guide them at their so called constitutional convention of June 25 to July 25, 1847, in ensuring that everything about this new nation matched the name given earlier by his compatriot, all to the cruel neglect of the interests of 16 different ethnic communities (considered by them as barbarians, savages, beasts or wild animals), even up this date in different, sometimes subtle manners. As such the flag of their nation took on 11 stripes representing the Johnsons, Wilsons, Lewises, and Gardners that sat at their so-called constitutional conventional and never any Yarkpawolos, Wees, Dayougars, or Nyanfores, though these latter surnames had accommodated them earlier and were alive and somewhere around during this so- called convention (Liberian History Up To 1847). The seal only cared to symbolize the means by which these Rotten Apples came to the Grain Coat; the motto too was only keen on narrating the purported reason for which this devilish 17th ethnic group came to the Grain Coast etc. They summed up all this in the beginning line of the preamble of their first constitution and their so-called Declaration of Independence, which states: “We the people of the Republic of Liberia were originally the people of the United States of North America.” Note that this statement still reigns supreme today. When we defined corruption earlier on in this pamphlet, we mentioned from the Transparency International website that corruption was the abuse of public office for private gains or the illegitimate use of one’s official position or edge to wield private benefit particularly at the detriment or disadvantage of fellow human beings, especially people you should be calling your compatriots in this case. When the interests of 16 different ethnic groups are ignored just for the benefit of one group then this definition

of corruption applies; and while it is true that people from the 16 ethnic communities were not part of the selection of people for the constitutional convention, once at the convention, the delegates should have known that they came from among other people, and were representing all alike, even if it were not specified this way, but true to the claim made earlier, they really considered members of the 16 tribal communities as animals who were not supposed to be represented among human beings, PERIOD!!!! No stability can ever be attained with such stinging reality still being glossed over, and nothing has changed as yet concerning this NASTY mindset. 3) Another form of blatant political corruption occurred among the Liberian pioneers themselves in 1871, when the Mulattoes did everything possible outside their so-called laws to oust the only black-skinned elected President by then, Edward James Roye (1870-1871). An illegal group of Anti-Roye elements apparently organized by the Mulatto elite deposed Roye on October 26, 1871 (A Short History Of The First Liberian Republic) and formed an interim government on their own, called the Chief Executive Committee, a committee which in turn called back an already impeached Vice President under Roye, a Mulatto, James Skirving Smith, to come and complete Roye’s term of few more months. Meanwhile impeached Smith was only waiting for a “recessing” Senate to come back from break to have him investigated, but this never happened again, all because the Mulattoes had gotten what they wanted. The Chief Executive Committee, and Skirving Smith, in a series of political actions stage-managed by the country’s first President, Joseph Jenkins Robert, a Mulatto, organized a mysterious one man presidential contest, which J. J. Roberts won to bring him back to office for the 5th and 6th terms (1872-76). All these series of illegal actions were approved by the country’s rubber stamped Legislature and Judiciary – all dominated and influenced by the Mulattos at the time. When they were behaving in such an uncivilized way like this, the Settlers were proud that they were leaving behind a “perfect” legacy for future generations – God forbid. 4) Liberia’s endemic corruption has never allowed it realize anything from the numerous international loans they have been receiving all through history. We will just give you two separate examples here, although the list itself is so long:  According to the book, “A First History of The First Liberian Republic”, Liberia contracted some $500,000 loan form a British firm in 1871. The arrangement was concluded by President E. J. Roye, assisted by his Secretary Of State, Hilary R. W. Johnson, Liberia’s Consul General to London, David Chinery, and one of E. J. Roye’s officials only referred to as Anderson, who was the main “mission man” that handled the actual cash. It is reported that Mr. Anderson fled with an unspecified amount of this money to an unknown location and only $135,000 of this money ever reached Liberia. The handling of this $135,000 was so controversial that there is no account of what the country benefited from it. The conclusion of this story was that Liberia now owed a 35 year loan of $500,000 plus its yearly, compounded interest to be amortized. As the

country has never had, and continues to date, never to have any definite and robust revenue generation program and strategy, Liberia never officially paid a dime out of this loan and its interest.  In 1906, Liberia’s negotiation or application for a new loan was approved by another British Company, to allow it repay some portion of the failed 1871 loan and use the rest for small development projects. Because Liberia’s economy had terribly gone bad at the time, a country that sadly only consumes but doesn’t produce anything by itself, President Barclay had to make some unimaginable concessions and compromises to quality for this loan, including for example, granting unconditional citizenship to the ‘savages’, the ‘wild animals’ (the indigenous people of this country) in 1904, as a way of complying with the British demand for a compulsory change of policy by the Amerio-Liberian elite towards the interior. This was at the domestic front, but according to http://alhajikromahpage.org/alhajifirestone.htm, Barclay Liberia adopted the British pound sterling as legal tender; Barclay approached the owner of the first rubber company to operate in Liberia, Sir Harry Johnston, a British, of the Liberia Rubber Company, to help him (Barclay) in the negotiations. To encourage Sir Johnston, Barclay “pre-gave” Johnston the contract to carry on the development projects on behalf of the government, which the loan was targeting. This was mainly to build a few miles of road. For that reason Barclay and Johnston worked quickly to change Johnston’s Liberia Rubber Company’s name to Liberia Development Company, a company that apart from its concession’s terms of exploiting wild rubber, Barclay extended them the free right to exploit any kind of mineral resource (diamond, gold etc.) in their concession area, which also spanned almost the whole country at the time. Barclay also gave LDC the right to set up its own police force. Liberia never had a police force when this was happening more than 50 years after their Mickey Mouse independence. It remained so until the 1950s, more than 100 years after independence, before the Liberia National Police was established. After Johnston helped Barclay and the $500,000 was finally acquired from Erlanger & Company in 1906, this how the loan money was shared: Barclay gave $200,000 to Johnston for road projects and additionally gave Johnston $35,000 as personal loan. Although not explicitly mentioned, Barclay might have used $105,000 as part payment of the old, failed 1871 loan. In the end, the government announced a balance of $160,000 that was left in her coffers, with which she purchased two vehicles and built a few miles of near Monrovia. Again, Liberia had contracted another huge international loan of $500,000 with compounded interest per annum in addition to all, or the balance of the ill-fated 1871 loan. In 4 to 5 years, Liberia, not seeing any way out of her financial mess, again begged America to help her in securing another loan to help pay for these two past unproductive loans, and they succeeded with a $1.7 million loan in 1912, but let’s stop here for now, as this story is long and painful to narrate.

The big question however remains, who, the productive person, will ever argue against the fact that it is now time to change this dirty, biased name called Liberia, which has brought us nothing good to read about other than trauma, trauma and trauma all the way. Moreover, as the Plain Truth Revolution is demanding, who, the productive person also will argue that it is not time for us to legally ban these cruel, corrupt and unproductive Americo-Liberians out of our public sector, so that this beautiful land can once and for all breathe some sigh of relief and start experiencing the true meaning of independence and self-determination? No other options can help us now other than these drastic, but very remedying revolutionary actions. There’s a saying that “drastic times call for drastic measures” 5) Liberia was established or founded exclusively for exploitation, to be effected through massive corruption. The country has never, in its almost 200 year history, up to this 2016, ever signed any sound or any balanced concession agreement for any of its very important resources. Liberia is always bending over backwards in all of its business deals owing to visionless leaders and a very corrupt system. Before the new millennium, the most painful and exploitative of all of Liberia’s international concession agreements however has been the Firestone Agreement. Firestone, a billion dollar Rubber and Tire Company, acquired a 99 year concession from Liberia in 1926, of 1million acres of land at 6 cents per acre to cultivate what would later become the world’s largest rubber plantation. Firestone initially had exclusive rights upon the land selected to exploit other natural and mineral resources; she was exempted from all present and future taxes; the company had right to engage into logging; and as usual, Firestone was given the go ahead to displace any number of tribal communities from their land without any compensation. Backed by the Liberian Frontier Force (now Armed Forces of Liberia), the Rubber and Tire company was authorized to collect able bodied indigenous men and boys at about 15 cents per each living head from the Tribal Chiefs for the planting and subsequent tapping of the company’s rubber at $3 to $4 per the monthly salary of each worker – just to comply with some international norms; as these people worked under very terrible conditions etc. and etc. But with respect to our subject, CORRUPTION, here is how the Firestone bill went through in the Liberian Legislature. President Charles King, former President Arthur Barclay, Secretary of State Edwin James Barclay, and Maryland County Senator William V.S. Tubman were those who staunchly advocated the Firestone bill. What is more interesting about Liberia’s endemic corruption in this deal is that former President Arthur Barclay and sitting Senator William V.S. Tubman were the private lawyers for Harvey Firestone when Senator Tubman was the principal person introducing and defending the Firestone bill for the acceptance of this 99 year concession contract in the Senate, and they succeeded. At the passing of the bill in 1926, this is what entrepreneur Harvey Firestone had to say, “The greatest concession of its kind ever made has now been realized.” It will surprise you to discover ahead in this pamphlet, fellow citizens and the world at large, that in January of 2011, another American, Ambassador Linda

Thomas Greenfield made similar statement at Chevron’s (an American oil and gas company’s) acquisition of Liberian Oil Blocks 11, 12, and 14 in another dubious US$10.7 billion oil deal with Madam Sirleaf and her government. You will also be surprise to notice that Liberia, as a country did not benefit in terms of physical cash, especially received at a lump sum up to $7,000 out of the whole 99 year Firestone Deal. Please now get a gist of how the peanuts realized from the Firestone deal went. Remember, as we said above, Liberia now had unpaid international debts from 1871, 1906 and 1912; and, around the early 1920s or exactly by 1918, she was applying for another $5 million loan from America directly, which was out-rightly rejected by the American Congress on grounds that Liberia didn’t know how to manage her own money, talk less about loan money, probably they had no much interest in the Liberian leadership at the time. Harvey Firestone, a smart business man, having discovered how stupid, greedy and pressed against the wall these myopic Liberian leaders were, offered them a compulsory $5 million loan with some huge interest rate at the signing of their 99-year rubber concession deal. Pushed against the wall, these numbskulls accepted the loan. Over half the cash (over $2.5 million) of the loan amount went against all of Liberia’s old loans, and was paid to the British creditors by Firestone himself, who also withheld the balance cash to be paying against each installment due of this new $5 million loan since Liberia was, and continues to be considered grossly irresponsible and unable to handle anything for herself. You can read about all this disgraceful event mainly from http://alhajikromahpage.org/alhajifirestone.htm and a little from “A Short History of the First Liberian Republic. The big question remains, “are these any respectable forefathers or predecessors to keep identifying with, in terms of sustaining their life styles? The answer is a resounding NO. We, people of the newer generations tend to overlook these kinds of traumatizing details about our country’s past, which is too detrimental to our own success in life because our progress is tied to some strings in the past, if we don’t know by now. In fact, can we now try answering each of the few questions below with utmost honesty? a) Don’t we know that these dirty actions by these foolish people in the past greatly affect our lives and progress today, and that we are compelled to do something about it now, or else it will continue unabated? b) Why do we think these accounts went down into history if they were not meant to be acted upon? Should we joke and laugh about these kinds of grave issues when the descendants of the perpetrators of these heinous acts live among us and continue to inflict even bigger pains upon us more and more through the criminal gang their parents set up here in 1822 called government (i.e. Government of Liberia)?

c) Don’t we know that history serves to narrate to us examples of terrible mistakes that we ought not to repeat? Don’t we know that history is the basis upon which we get to understand our problems of today? d) The American journalist and writer, P. J. O’Rouke said, “Those who don’t know their history are probably also not doing well in their English and Math. Is this man lying here; are we doing well in any other aspect of live since we are ignoring these grave historical realities? 6) According to Prof. Alhaji G. V. Kromah, Firestone had employed more than 10,000 laborers on its plantations by 1930. And according to official government sources however, more than 8,500 had not gone to work for Firestone voluntarily, (but instead, through some coercive and corrupt arrangement). Firestone Agents, heavily backed by Liberia Frontier Force armed men went to Native Chiefs, gave them 15 cents for each living head of our indigenous brothers and sometimes sisters during the rice planting season (January to June) and 10 cents per living head during off-planting season (July to December) and imposed quotas on each village. This recruitment system supplied Firestone with tens of thousands of indigenous Liberian laborers up to the early 1960s. Here is how it got curbed or minimized to some extent. In August of 1961, the Government of Portugal in retaliation, or in reaction to Liberia’s proven lip service towards African anti-colonial efforts, filed a complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO) concerning the failure of the Liberian Government to observe the Forced Labor Convention of 1950. The Portuguese might have made specific reference to the Firestone scenario. The ILO quickly setup a committee to investigate Portugal’s complaint against Liberia in late 1961 or early 1962. Before the committee could publish it findings, the Liberia’s always unprincipled and rubber stamp Legislature quickly enacted a law revising the recruitment of labor in Liberia in 1962. It was only then that the forced labor and corrupt recruitment system that had been supplying Firestone for more than 35 years became outlawed on the books. 7) All of what we have elaborated above is to justify more and more that Liberia was built on the pillars of corruption and its whole batch of accomplices, including sectionalism, human trafficking, broad day stealing etc.; meaning, no one can leave the Liberian structure standing and attempt to root out or fight corruption successfully. Liberia and corruption are mutually inexclusive, so if we want to get rid of one, we must equally get rid of the other. What a strong statement though, but that’s the bare reality. And when we refer to Liberia here, we are referring to the structural arrangement and not the territorial confines, or its good people. Nothing will ever work here unless the structural (i.e. cultural, political, economic etc.) foundations of this country are completely dismantled and redone. We demand a new national foundation built on the pillars of Justice, moral uprightness, mutual respect and hard work etc.

Let’s remember though, that we should never be thinking of using guns and violence anymore in this place to achieve these objectives. Our time for using them is just over, and they have miserably let us down. Wondering what’s the clear roadmap to performing these huge civic duties and achieving lasting success, please give the Plain Truth Revolution all your attention now, as God prepares us day by day to lead the way. We can, through God’s grace, drive all of us through the process to a successful and nobler end. We are too good as a people and too rich as a nation to deserve all these mess that we are going through. Having said that, our point #7 argues that those Liberian Presidents who, in line with the theme of this pamphlet, have had it at the backs of their minds that the county’s cornerstone is corruption; and as such, nothing could be done about it while Liberia still stood, have not had very embarrassing moments during their leaderships, but on the other hand, those who have deliberately defied this fact, and have boasted of wanting to fight corruption, have ironically met up with huge accounts of disgrace in their political and personal lives. Let’s look at a few key examples below: A. Charles Dunbar Burgess King (1920-1930) - King said he was determined to fight corruption when he took power and this commitment was on his lips all through the years of his reign. Here is an illustrious declaration he made against corruption in his 1928 inaugural address; “There shall be strict adherence to the principle embodied in our present financial program… A strict accountability of the application of public funds will be insisted upon… Like in the past, we shall insist upon speedy and exemplary punishment meted out to all officials found tampering with public revenues of any kind or nature whatsoever, irrespective of their private or political connections”(A Short History of the First Liberian Republic, P.58). Meanwhile, this President King was the man who won the most corrupt election ever in world history, recorded in the Guinness Book of Records, 1995, p.432. In that election of 1927, that Mr. King won, and was speaking above at its inaugural ceremonies, the total number of registered voters in the country at the time did not exceed 15,000, but President King, the professed hero against corruption, received an unintelligible 235,000 votes over his archrival, T. J. R. Faulkner, who won 8,922 votes. Additionally, in the League of Nations Christy Report of 1930, it was pointed out that President King, his Vice President Allen Yancy, and other officials were receiving $45 for each living indigenous boy or man they exported as slave to Fernando Poo, with the help of the Liberia Frontier Force, now called the Armed Forces of Liberia. King was pressured to resign at the close of 1930 as a result of the Cuthbert Christy Report, which terribly indicted his government for numerous counts of administrative misdemeanors and human rights violations.

As usual, Liberia has used two tools to perpetuate and sustain corruption – impunity and a weak, unobjective and highly dependent Judiciary. Charles King was not prosecuted for these indictments, but was rewarded by his Firestone partner in crime and relative William V. S. Tubman to serve both as Minister Consular to Washington DC (1948-50) and then Liberia’s first Ambassador Proper to the USA (1950-1952). B. William V. S. Tubman (1944-1971) - Although he accepted corruption as the nation’s backbone and a normal way of life and as such enjoyed it and didn’t make any much noise about fighting corruption, it must also be remembered that he bore standards for the longest, for the True Whig Party, a party that championed the following cause against corruption, as presented in one of their 1971 publications, the year of Tubman death coincidentally: “….. The principal object of the party (meaning the True Whig Party) is to provide a government for the state; and the soundest formula in the pursuance of this objective is good governance. Among the most destructive of evils against governments anywhere are dishonesty and corrupt practices, which have a tendency not only to erode the effectiveness of government, but also to demoralize the body politic.” (Honesty In Government, 1971 Election Guide of the True Wing Party Published By The Age Publishing Company in Monrovia). Now, a president, whose party stood by these perfect principles and virtues, did leave behind the following legacies:  Mr. William V. S. Tubman, Liberia’s longest serving president of 27 unbroken years, the one during whose regime the country’s economy got exposed to the outside world, and was compared to none else on Earth besides the Japanese economy in terms of growth figures, a lawyer and an administrator of high Americo-Liberian caliber, knew very well that it was immoral, illegal, dishonest, unethical, corrupt etc. to be a lawmaker of the country while at the same time be an active private lawyer of a foreign firm; and, to add insult to injury, help to sponsor a bill in the Legislature to grant concessionary rights to the company for which you work as a private lawyer. Mr. Tubman was the private lawyer of Firestone while at the same time Maryland County Senator, and was the same person sponsoring the bill to grant Firestone concession rights in Liberia. At the close of the day, the deal went through, and Firestone acquired right to 1 million acres of Liberian land at 6 cents per acre, with virtually no taxes or other fees to be paid to the Liberian Government; free exploitation rights to all concessional areas for diamonds, gold etc. and almost free labor from among indigenous Liberians.  All concession contracts facilitated by Mr. Tubman or signed directly under his gavel of authority were very shady and incredibly exploitative. Two major examples, apart from the criminal Firestone Concession mentioned above are as follows: i.

The Bomi Hills Mining Concession – In this 1945 iron ore agreement, the Liberia Mining Company (an American mining concession in actuality, originally called Bethlehem Steel) was given exclusive rights to extract all other minerals from the

concessional area of 3 million acres, except for gold, diamond and platinum mockingly. The 80 year concession had no provision for any physical development to the affected concessional areas and Liberia received an encumbered (i.e. inclusive of other deductions like depletion fees etc.) share of 20 cents out of every ton of iron ore exported and reported at will by the company. We don’t have as yet exactly what a ton of iron ore cost at the time when iron ore prices were at their record highs, but today, a ton of pig iron costs around $80 to $95 according to http://it.umn.edu . And the most foolish and incomprehensible thing about this whole contract, according to Prof. Tuan Wleh is that the Liberian Government was paying depletion fees to the company as the natural ore depleted from Bomi Hills. Because this foolish arrangement was what we refer to in business as a “laugh all the way to the bank deal”, the LMC exploited all the ore deposits in 26 years, less than half of the concessional time, and closed the mine (A Short History of The First Liberian Republic). When journalists and judges exposed the stupidities surrounding the deal, they were reportedly flogged, locked up, and some dismissed by President Tubman. One of the victims of these foolish misuse of power by Tubman was the prominent Liberian Judge, T. Gybli Collins (idem, p. 59). ii.

The LAMCO Iron Ore Mining Concession – this concession of 1953 or thereabouts gave LAMCO (another reportedly American dominated company) 250 million tons of high grade iron ore for 70 years with government receiving an encumbered 16 cents out of every dollar reported by LAMCO at will. Liberia became Africa’s largest, and world’s 3rd largest exporter of iron ore by 1967 as a result of LAMCO’s massive mining operations, with LAMCO earning billions form Liberia per year. (A short History of the first Liberian Republic; In The Cause Of The People etc.).

 Bill Tubman had his own presidential yacht when the whole country could not afford its own ‘air taxi’ according to reliable sources  When civil servants in the country were not earning up to US$50 per month, there was a compulsory contribution deducted from their salaries across the board for the celebration of Mr. Tubman’s birthday every year (In The Cause of The People) etc. C. William R. Tolbert (1971-1980) – Tolbert didn’t make much noise about fighting corruption, although he was a man more action oriented than words. His Government however established the National Task Force for The Eradication of Corruption, an initiative some political commentators referred to as a mere charade, anyway. Tolbert however is remembered for instructing a commission during his time to draw up the first ever code of conduct for public officials though this code did not come out before he (Tolbert) got killed by Samuel Kayon Doe on grounds that he had perpetuated and facilitated rampant corruption in his government. D. Samuel Kayon Doe (1980-1990) – Doe barbarically killed President Tolbert and officially 27 of Tolbert’s government officials in the name of liberating Liberia from rampant corruption, according to Wikipedia. As if he was ignorant that Liberia was built

on the pillars of corruption, and its key accomplices of “I, me, and myself etc., Doe sadly declared this “national godfather”, CORRUPTION, as a first degree felony (high treason), punishable by death or long time imprisonment (Liberian History Since 1980), and set up a whole military tribunal to fast track corruption cases. In fact, it was that tribunal that prosecuted, convicted and executed those first 13 officials on firing squad for corruption. But sadly, apart from the fact that his very ascendency and the rest of his subsequent actions within the presidency constituted other forms of grave corruption; on the economic side of things, in less than 3 to 4 years, Doe had shifted the goal post and ignominiously succumbed to this Liberian cultural giant and social mainstay; CORRUPTION; and he was now deeply into the practice, with speculations that he became one of Africa’s richest presidents in less than 10 years. E. Charles McCarthy Taylor (1997-2003) - Taylor recognized corruption as a great threat to national growth and development, and promised in his inaugural address of August 2,1997 to stamp this menace out of the Liberian public sector. But sooner than later, Taylor had become entrenched into highly corrupt practices that it is alleged, during his regime, the country’s central bank was being run from his private home. F. Charles Gyude Bryant (2003-2005) – Interim President Bryant claimed to be very passionate about fighting corruption. According to the LACC (i.e. the Liberia AntiCorruption Commission), Bryant started an anti-corruption task force to prove his commitment. But sadly later again, Bryant’s name went down the pages of Liberian history as one of the most corrupt leaders of the country ever. He himself was prosecuted for corruption, but fortunately for him in the American Settlers’ Liberia, nobody loses a corruption ease, except as a result of some terrible witch hunt, so Bryant was acquitted. G. Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2003-persent) – this woman’s name has been penned down thus far in the Liberian History as the Queen of All Modern Day Corruption. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the most educated, most experienced, and most knowledgeable about the country’s problem among the rest of the Americo-Liberian leaders, came to power and declared corruption as Public Enemy #1, making strong public statements against this practice or plaque, but fortunately for the indigenous community of this country to get their arguments right, this reportedly great granddaughter of Settler President Hillary R.W. Johnson has turned out to be that last straw that has broken the embarrassing Americo-Liberian hegemonic camel’s back! A hint to the wise is quite sufficient!!! Mahatma Gandhi says, “Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears before we should wake up from our trance (slumber, sleep) and hear the warning …..” Indigenous, and all other well-meaning fellow citizens, for all men were born equal. We are 16/1 in this battle without guns. Please let’s wake up from our slumber before it gets too late and we lose the only home we have, to resident aliens who are persistently bent on pillaging all of our resources to later leave us in

the mess and fly off to their first homes. Over 190 years is more than enough for one group of people to prove themselves over and over again that they absolutely are not cut out for certain thing (management/leadership), and we keep pushing them into it out of fear. There are times in life that we must decide that enough is enough! A hint to the wise again is quite sufficient!! With that said, we come back again to the discussion of the Settler’s last massive failure demonstrated in Madam Johnson Sirleaf. In our initial definition section, we mentioned that CORRUPTION meant moral impurity or intentional deviation from what is right; and that Aristotle and Cicero defined the word “CORRUPT” respectively as “utterly broken” and “the abandonment of good habits.” Applying specifically Cicero’s definition of corruption to Madam Sirleaf’s behavior within the presidency, which will all be climaxed by Aristotle’s perspective of corruption, or what it means to be corrupt, we will say here that in order to abandon good habits as Cicero said, one must have known the good habits well in advance before deciding to abandon them later, a decision that utterly breaks everything apart. Accordingly, before and upon becoming president, these are some of the good habits about leadership and good governance that Madam Sirleaf, a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a former World Bank Economist and Divisional Head of the United Nations Development Program etc. said she knew and claims to still know today. We are going to bring you eight (8) of the many things about leadership and governance that the Black American Setters iron lady claims to know, and then bring at least two accounts of her performances thus far corresponding to each of the 8 points. So please tighten your seat belts for this fascinating section: 1. In her memoir, “This Child Will Be Great” Madam Sirleaf recalls the frailty of former President Tolbert, which she claimed contributed to his downfall. According to the Settlers’ Iron Lady, President Tolbert included too many family members in his circles (FrontPage Africa, Monday, August 6, 2012), among which were his son, A. B Tolbert and his two brothers, Frank Tolbert and Stephen Tolbert etc., according to another media outlet, the African Standard Magazines, Friday, April 5, 2013 edition. 2. A prominent Liberian, Simeon Freeman, quoted Madam Sirleaf from a recording of some speech she delivered before the American Congress earlier on, as describing Liberia’s past leaders, based on their poor governance and mismanagement of the country’s resources, as all, irresponsible leaders. 3. Being very knowledgeable about the country’s deep seated problems and the glaring need for the country to break with its crude, ugly past before it can make any progress, this is what Madam Sirleaf made of this reality in her January 16, 2006 inaugural address; “We recognize that this change is not just for the sake of change, but a fundamental break with the past, thereby requiring that we take bold and decisive steps to address the problems that for decades have stunted our progress, undermined national unity and kept old and new cleavages in ferment.”

4. For her massive educational and professional background, Liberians have looked to this woman as the most suitable technician for the solution of the country’s mountainous problems. As both an experienced theoretical and practical economist, this is what Madam Sirleaf made of the country’s bad economic system. In her 2006 inaugural address, Madam Sirleaf said, “…We are blessed with an endowment rich in natural and human resources; yet, our economy has collapsed due to several civil conflicts and economic mismanagement by successive governments…. We can promote those activities that add value in the exploitation of our natural resources.” Moreover, speaking on the theme “The Importance Of Natural Capital To Development” at the African Natural Resources Sustainability Summit in Gaborone, Botswana on Friday, May 25, 2012, according to an Executive Mansion Press Release, Madam Sirleaf told participants “that based on lessons learnt from the past, when resource rich country like Liberia had to extract and export their natural resources without long term benefits for their nation and people, she has vowed upon assuming power not to repeat those same mistakes by ensuring that all concession agreements benefit the people and the government equitably……….She recalled how in the 1970s, the price of iron ore fell drastically while that of oil rose substantially, but because Liberia was faced with the reality of the Free Market System, the country had no choice but to dig more iron ore, at the cost of abusing its environment…….Lamenting how the situation left the country with big craters and artificial lakes on the landscape and not much else to show for the millions of tons of ore exported, President Sirleaf upon taking office in 2005, according to the press release, therefore committed her government to renegotiating every concession agreement in the country for mineral extraction and agribusiness.” The press release went on quoting the President as saying, “What we sought to show was that, people who work the land, have decent living conditions and we also send out a message that when there’s equality between the people and the government, and between the government and investors, everybody wins.” 5. In her memoir, “This Child Will Be Great” Madam Sirleaf takes keen cognizance of the fact that strong leadership is critical to finding answers to African nations’ chronic problems and, makes reference to one African country benefitting from the fruit of such strong and decisive leadership. This is how she commented on the issue; “Why are some countries able, despite their very real and serious problems, to press ahead along the road to reconciliation, recovery and development while others cannot?” These are critical questions for Africa and their answers are complex and not always clear. Leadership is crucial of course. Kagame was strong leader, decisive, focused, disciplined, and honest, and he remains so today. I believe that some time people’s characters are modeled by their environment. Angola, like Liberia, like Sierra Leone, is resource rich, a natural blessing that sometimes has the sad effect of diminishing the human drive for self-sufficiency, the ability and determination to maximize that which one has. Kagame had nothing. He grew up in a refugee camp, equipped with only his

own strength of will and determination to create a better life for himself and his countrymen.” 6. Madam Sirleaf strongly acknowledges that the country desperately needs genuine reconciliation and national healing, not based on rhetorical talks and theories etc. but based on perfecting democracy and spreading progress. Here’s what she made of this indispensable necessity in her January 2012 inaugural address: “True reconciliation means a process of national healing. It means learning the lessons of the past to perfect our democracy. But above all, it means economic justice for our citizens and the spread of progress to all our people. It means realizing job opportunities and giving our young people the skills they need to prosper and create the life they choose” 7. This Harvard trained President knows the debilitating consequences of corruption on any attempts made by governments and peoples to advance economically and other wise. This is how she put it in her 2006 inaugural address: “We know that if we are to achieve our economic and income distribution goals, we must take on forcibly and effectively the debilitating cancer of corruption. Corruption erodes faith in government because of the mismanagement and misapplication of public resources. It weakens accountability, transparency and justice, corruption short changes and undermines key decision and policy making processes. It stifles private investments which create jobs and assure support from our partners. Corruption is a national cancer that creates hostility, distrust, and anger. Corruption, under my administration, will be the major public enemy. We will confront it. We will fight it. Any member of my administration who sees this affirmation as mere posturing, or yet another attempt by yet another Liberian leader to play to the gallery on this grave issue should think twice. Anyone who desires to challenge us in this regard will do so at his or her personal disadvantage. In this respect, I will lead by example. [And] I will expect and demand that everyone serving in my administration leads by example.” 8. As an Executive Committee member of the Liberia Action Party, Ellen made the following comments about Samuel Doe and his government before the African Subcommittee on the Liberian Crisis in June 1990, according to the National Chronicle Newspaper of May 3, 2012: “Today, the Liberian State is exhausted and virtually near collapse. Economic resources have been plundered and misused by public officials whose greed and conspicuous consumption are unparalleled in the nation’s history. Citizens and country alike have been reduced to begging for survival while substantial wealth accumulates in the hands of a privileged few.” Referring to President Doe directly, she says, “He speaks of love for a people, but a people who are feeling the brunt of a steady decline, which has left them impoverished. Unemployment, spiraling cost of living, inadequately equipped schools, little means of transportation, and a depleted national capital stock are common conditions which they face.”

Madam Sirleaf is very notorious at political grand standing; meaning if we decide to outline all of her empty speeches, pronouncements and filibustering here, including her fake commitments about solving Liberia’s gigantic problems etc., it means we will be boringly heading for another 500 page revolutionary pamphlet, which we are not prepared to do now, so for brevity sake, we pause on these 8 points to bring you below at least two accounts or instances each of how her personal administrative actions or those actions directly influenced by her, have violated all of the 8 points above, largely owing to a leadership mindset or preconception clouded with selfishness, corruption and lack of love for nation, not to mention the inherent criminality. All these are sadly being promoted by the country’s entrenched and sustained culture of impunity, which has made everyone, from leaders down to the least of status in society feel that they can do, or act anyhow and go scot free. Note the numbering below – i.e. 1-1 for example means the first number of this section’s explanations, but explaining point #1 of Ellen’s claims above; with 2-2 meaning, point #2 of this section, explaining the second account of things Ellen claims to know, as presented above, and so forth: 1-1). A president who had heavily criticized her former boss and predecessor, Tolbert, as being nepotistic and “cronyiastic” has, by this 10th year of her administration left the following examples of these same acts behind:  According to the Inprofile Daily Newspaper edition of Tuesday, August 27, 2013, a 2013 report released by Human Rights Watch on Liberia included President Sirleaf’s share of the blame regarding the undefeatable strength that corruption seems to maintain on Liberia. The report indicated that in recent years, the President herself has appointed her sons to prominent political positions defying media and civil society complaints of nepotism and conflicts of interest.  In the African Standard, April 5, 2014 edition, it is reported that up to September 2013, the son of President Sirleaf, Robert A. Sirleaf, held 4 different lucrative and challenging positions – 3 in government and one in the private sector as follows: a. Chairman of the Board Of Directors of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) b. Senior (Political) Advisor to the President c. Liberia’s Representative to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization d. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the First International Bank Liberia Ltd. The magazine also said that Robert Sirleaf is believed to be the main recruiting agent of government, a role wherein he hires cronies and fires perceived enemies. Further, according to the magazine, among Madam Sirleaf’s nepotistic line up, apart from Robert Sirleaf, are the following:

a. b. c. d. e.

Charles Sirleaf, Son ……………...Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Liberia Fomba Sirleaf, Stepson ……..…....National Security Agency Director Ambulai Johnon, Cousin………….Former Minister of Internal Affairs Varney Sirleaf, Nephew…………..Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Estrada Bernard, Brother-in-Law…Legal Advisor to the President

 Then came the National Chronicle, Monday, June 24,2013 edition with its lineup of Madam Sirleaf’s friends, other relatives and cronies in government, some of whom earn the highest recorded salaries ever in the history of the Liberian public sector, as follows: a. Dr. Edward McClain, an in-law ……………………Minister of State b. Judie Moore, Foster Son of Dr. Edward McClain ….Special Project Implementer, Executive Mansion [Note: he is now Minister of Public Works] c. Evert Richardson, a McClain ……………………… Deputy Minister of State d. Jhu Richardson, married to a McClain, Evert.............[Some Government Consultant] e. Dr. Rudolph McClain, an in-law ……………………President, National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) f. Ian Yap, [Some close friend or relative]…………….Consultant, Executive Mansion (the man who allegedly nets US$ 70,000 per month) 2-2). Madam Sirleaf, on a tape in the possession of Mr. Simeon Freeman, states that her predecessors were irresponsible in the leadership and administration of the country. How will we judge the following actions and facts about Ellen then? A. In August 2012, a Danish Journalist, Mads Johan Brugger Cortzen launched a documentary to highlight the deadly weaknesses within the Liberian governing system [owing to vested interests], in which the journalist himself, intentionally fraudulently purchased a Liberian diplomatic post and a Liberian passport, all for US$150,000. He called his documentary the “Ambassador”. The Danish journalist purchased his Liberian Consul General Position from the Foreign Affairs Ministry at the price mentioned above and all of his diplomatic documents were signed by the President herself. In an interview with Rodney Sieh of the FrontPage Africa Newspaper, that was published on August 6, 2012, the President admitted this administrative blunder and embarrassment, referring to the Danish Journalist as a criminal and an imposter because according to her, “The man went through the NSA search, but used a false name.” She furthered, “He broke the system, there’s no question about that”. B. When the Liberian General Auditing Commission (GAC) published its findings about how Chevron was criminally going about the purchase of Liberia’s lucrative Oil Blocks 11, 12 and 14, allegedly paying bribes here and there, to have the Legislature quickly ratify this shady US$ 10.7 billion deal, fear gripped Chevron, and they wanted to back off the deal to probably strike a new, clearer one, in line with the GAC’s recommendation for the nullification and renegotiation of the deal. But Madam Sirlearf,

according to a US diplomatic cable dated April 26, 2010, stressed that she will not nullify the existing contracts because in her words, “Doing so would take years (precious time) and would delay Liberia’s oil exploration gains [no matter what faults were found in those contracts]. C. The Publish What You Pay Coalition (PWYP), a British international integrity institution, revealed in January of 2012, that the President (Sirleaf) told the people of Grand Cape Mount County that the Liberian Government made errors in the Sime Darby 70-year Concession Agreement. The group furthered, “Just few weeks ago, in late April 2013, the President (Sirleaf) again, visited Sinoe County and admitted that the government blundered in the multiple-decade Golden Petroleum Agreement. Now, the PWYP, according to an rssnews.com’s publication entitled “Ellen Government” “Banjoes [Cheaply Auctions] Liberia’s Resources…” alarmed that its attention was drawn to the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s (LEITI’s) sanctioned Post Contract Award Audit Report wherein it was revealed that almost all of the $8 billion worth of resource contracts signed by the government since 2009 had violated the Liberian laws. According to the group, Entity Concession Committees were never appointed, coupled with lack of stakeholders’ forums, while Agriculture concession durations are not compliant with public lands laws, among others. D. According to a tape played by Mr. Christian Nelson of Online Radio LIB, simulcast with Farbric F.M., a local radio station in Monrovia, Madam Sirleaf was heard putting up an argument that her government was opened to including dual citizenship holders [in public offices] because these people used to send remittances back home to their suffering Liberian families during the country’s civil war. This tape was played in early August 2013. Since that has been the policy or approach of the UP-led Government as pronounced by the Boss Lady herself, lets’ get a little gist of what has happened, and continues to happen to the Liberian economy:  Wikipedia reports that as of 2014, Liberia was the 4th among the world’s 7 countries worst hit by capital flight, a phenomenon usually accompanied by grave economic paralyses such as a sharp drop in exchange rate, a serious loss of assets’ nominal values etc.  According to a May 12, 2009 article of the New Democrat Newspaper, quoting the Central Bank of Liberia’s Financial and Economic Bulletin covering October to December 2008, an average of US$12.3 million was leaving Liberia’s already strangulated economy monthly as remittances going abroad. As more bureaucrats have now been ‘imported’ into the country, and as more of them have now worked the system and increased their salaries and benefits, one can safely estimate that a total of between $15 million to $20 million now leaves the country’s economy

monthly as remittances, when Liberia herself can never independently contribute more than $400 million to her own national budget annually. 3-3). Note that the below explanations will handle points 3 and 4 above, so we should really be enumerating it as 3-3 and 4-4, in line with how we’ve been going about this section. The president said Liberia desperately needed change and a fundamental break with the past. Moreover, she lamented that our natural resources had been poorly managed, promising that we will now add value to our “raw” resources and ensure that government and all the people benefit equally. But here are still some of the harshest political and economic realities during the long tenure of someone who promises to break with the past: POLITICS A. In an article in the New Democrat Newspaper’s Friday, February 17, 2012 edition entitled, “Depoliticizing Professional Appointments,” it was reported that [political analysts] now observe that just as former Presidents Samuel K. Doe and Charles Taylor [etc.] disfigured government services with mediocre cronies and fanatic loyalists, and not competent and productive individuals, Madam Sirleaf was doing the same. The article claims that governmental appointments were now politicized beyond competence and professional levels, and that the key criteria for selecting individuals responsible for policy design and implementation was no more competence and professional levels, but expediency, appeasement and political accommodation, with loyalty tests and youth labels seeming to be the guide posts. It concludes that these were now the hallmarks of the Ellen Sirleaf-led Government. ECONOMICS A. Shortly after the minimization or disappearance of Feudalism as a popular economic system in the 15th century, there came about Capitalism, then next and lastly as yet, Socialism. Capitalism and Socialism are in widespread use around the world today, but in different tweaked forms and mixtures, and not in their purely traditional forms as they were when introduced centuries back. Socialism is an economic system characterized by the social ownership of the means of production [not necessarily Factors of Production] and the cooperative management of the economy. Social ownership may refer to cooperative enterprises, common ownership, state ownership, citizen ownership etc. of equity, or any combination of these. A socialist economic system places more emphasis on the production of goods and services to directly satisfy economic demand and human needs than an obsession with the accumulation of personal/private capital and personal/private profit. The revival of Republicanism and the American Revolution

of 1776 and the Egalitarian Value introduced by the French Revolution of 1789 gave rise to Socialism as a distinct political movement. Then comes Capitalism, an economic system in which trade, industry, and the means of production are controlled by private owners with the primary goal of making profits (regardless of what the consequences are, to a people). The central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, and wage labor. In a capitalist economy, the parties to a transaction typically determine the prices at which assets, goods, and services are exchanged. Capitalism can be practiced in different forms and sub forms to match the empirical economic reality of a people, but its more traditional and “naked” or raw forms include mercantilism, (the 16th century capitalism) and free market capitalism, also called the Laissez Faire capitalism (the 17th century capitalism still professedly practiced by Liberia mainly), and the modern forms include Corporate Capitalism and Mixed Capitalism or Mixed Economy (the American practiced Capitalism, which leans mostly on Socialist modus operandi). Mixed economy is largely a market –based economy consisting of both private and public ownership (a form of socialism) of the means of production and economic interventionism through macroeconomic policies intended to correct market failures, reduce unemployment, and keep inflation low. –This is the Western style Capitalism. In fact, from empirical research, no country in the world now purely practices Capitalism; as this ideology or theory is more of a “housemaid” than an independent or a dependable “house wife”. Proponents of capitalism argue that it creates more prosperity (like it is truly doing for Liberia, for example) than any other economic system, and that its benefits are mainly for the ordinary person. But opponents to this view, like us, the Plain Truth Revolution strongly disagree, and argue that Capitalism (in its traditional form) is associated with economic instability and it makes a nation unable to provide for the wellbeing of its own citizens. But here is how Veteran German Economist, Scientist, Politician and Key Contributor to the design of both economic systems (understandably), Karl Marx, and his collaborator Fredrick Engels conclude this debate. The both economists said that Socialism is a historically inevitable phase of development, which comes about through social revolution to resolve the conflicting class relationships of Capitalism. They said that the fundamental objective of Socialism is to attain an advanced level of material production and therefore greater productivity, efficiency, and rationality as compared to Capitalism and all previous systems, under the view of that an expansion of human productive capability is the basis for the extension of freedom and equality. And don’t get it wrong, markets are free, and there are private ownerships and competitions in a socialist economy, but one fact that remains remarkably

outstanding is that government takes the lead all the way in Socialism to ensure that there is stability, and enough or surplus of all of the citizens’ basic needs, unlike a twisted form of Laissez-Faire Capitalist structure, like those professedly practiced by Liberia, which irresponsibly sits by and shifts these key national obligations to private citizens or private concerns. Since the less intelligent Americo-Liberian framers of this failed state heard Capitalism in the mouths of Americans and adopted this 18th century economic system in its thwarted and twisted form, as she does with everything else, in 1822, besides Tolbert, to some extent, none of the rest so-called leaders, including the current Colorado and Harvard Universities’ trained economist and administrator, has ever tried to tweak or even change – if that’s what it takes – this 18th century Laissez-Faire Capitalism that dull people like J.J. Roberts and Allen Benson etc. adopted. Today, here we are after 194 years of economic existence on this planet, nothing worthwhile this gloomy country can ever boast of other than trauma. The net effect of their Laissez-Faire Capitalism they adopted in 1822 is an old, two century old economy entirely dominated by foreigners because ordinary citizens have no genuine means of getting into business, as government is both not interested and doesn’t care. Woe unto all these failures, for they deserve no respect from our generation for the level of shame, lack of vision, lack of innovation, they continue to curse this country with! B. In the 1920s, Liberian leaderships made up of mere Junior and Senior High level, selfish and unpatriotic men initiated and operated the Open Door policy. This traditional form of economics places premium on the extraction of mineral, agricultural and other natural resources, leaving them in their raw, crude or natural forms and exporting them for little or nothing. The Open Door Policy encourages only, or mainly foreign investors to come and extract the country’s resources, while placing very less restrictions on the outflows of profits made by these foreign investors. Another weakness of this policy is that economic activities reserved for citizens are not even protected from foreigners. The net effect of the Open Door Policy is thus a nation that keeps emphasizing the extraction of mineral and other resources for export rather than one that emphasizes production for domestic consumption and export through industrialization. Shockingly for her level of education, wealth of experience, and long international contact, Liberia again under Madam Sirleaf, has never been able to introduce any value addition activity to any of her resources, and more concession agreements according to research have been signed by her government than any other government in this failed state’s history, for the same old, traditional extraction and export of the country’s resources. Even more disgracefully, almost all of this government’s closed to 100 or so concession and other agreements signed in different forms thus far, violate Liberia’s already weak and outdated laws (LEITI sponsored Moor Stevens post Contract Award Audit of 2012; House Of Representatives’ Ways, Means and Finance Committee Chairman’s May 2012 Communication to the Honorable Speaker; the Publish What You Pay Coalition

2013 Report; the Liberia Institute of Public Integrity Report etc.). The president who lamented the leaving behind of big craters and artificial lakes on the country’s landscape and not much else to show for the millions of tons of ore exported by mining companies in Liberia before her ascendency has sadly auctioned out more than 10 blocks of the nation’s precious oil resources in deals that all, cruelly rob the country of its future economic and overall development as follows:  According to the National Chronicle Newspaper of Thursday, April 26, 2012, the Liberian Legislature observed that while section 3.3 of the New Petroleum Law of Liberia provides for a mandatory equity interest of 20% for NOCAL (or simply 20% ownership for the country) in all Petroleum Exploration and Production Sharing Contacts, 6 out of the 10 existing oil contracts are silent on Liberia’s 20% ownership; 3 provide for 10% ownership, while one excluded ownership altogether. Note: This logically means a future loss of 170% out of the 200 aggregate percentage points for Liberia in terms of equity ownership in her own natural resource, with an 800% aggregate already going to foreign companies. So with respect to ownership of our own oil, because of the selfishness, greed, wickedness, and proven lack of a sense of belongingness to this country employed by Madam Sirleaf and her government, foreign companies now have 970% aggregate or 97% while we, as a country, have 30% aggregate or 3% of our own resource when it comes to ownership share. Then comes section 3.4 of the New Petroleum Law, which provides for 10% stock purchase by Liberian citizens in every oil contract, or in the companies that sign such contract with the government. According to the Legislature, as presented by this same source above, 6 out of the existing 10 PSCs are silent on stock purchases, while 4 exclude any stock purchases. This means, Liberians are not sure of buying any shares in the companies that will drill their oil later. And even if these were considered, where is the stock sale or stock exchange mechanism in Liberia, one would ask, to effect such specialized transactions? Finally, section 3.7 of the same law provides for a mandatory royalty payment of between 12-18% on gross production to the country, depending on whether the production is off, or on shore. According to the Legislature, 6 out of the existing 10 PSCs are silent on royalty payments to Liberia, and only 3 provide for 5% royalty payments. This technically means a future loss of 165% out of an aggregate 180% royalty payment benefit due to Liberia. Note: the Legislators blame all this on the actions of the President, her son, and a privileged few. All of the above safely and fearlessly translate into saying, that out of the first 10 oil blocks that a Madam Sirleaf-led Government has auctioned, Liberia has a 3% average share in terms of equity or ownership; Liberia has absolutely no assurance of ever buying stock in any of the companies that will soon be drilling our precious resource, and when it comes to royalties/fees payable to government for such things as security protection, land use, and other state services etc.

Liberia will be receiving 0.083% out of a total of 18% mandated by law for our own oil. All this again, just as in the days of Tubman, as decried by Liberiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harvard trained President above, means more holes, more artificial lakes etc. for Liberia when active drilling starts sometimes soon, and heightened tension against the government of the day, at the time when Madam Sirleaf, her son, few cronies and their families shall have already been out of here to their first home, the wonderful USA, Liberiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heaven, enjoying their stolen wealth, gotten largely from conniving with foreign capitalists to pillage the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resources. This has been a normal thing for Americo-Liberian leaders, again, with the exception of Mr. Tolbert, the best so far our knowledge has established. Meanwhile, as we speak, a once hustler, trying to make life reportedly in incorporate America by hanging onto low profile or even odd jobs, Mr. Robert A. Sirleaf, son of Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is now being reported by the African Standard Magazine to have, by 2013, accumulated assets worth US$2.5 billion in a country that has never as yet independently raised equal to $400 million for her own annual budget. And with respect to the blatant violations above, these same New Petroleum Laws of Liberia, whose very basic provisions, these greedy, cruel and myopic people have failed to abide by in 10 or more major oil deals, are the same laws they are using millions of dollars claiming to reform. The Liberian Legislature (mainly the House of Representatives) reportedly spent US$ 0.9 million late 2013 carrying a draft new oil law around the country for consultations with a citizenry that the forefathers of Liberia had considered beasts and failed miserably to educate for almost two centuries now. The National Oil Company (NOCAL) herself has over the recent years been carrying out similar nationwide consultations, using hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve these same laws that they themselves find pleasure violating its elementary provisions. When Madam Sirleaf was sending her son to the National Oil Company to go and accumulate wealth for their family from the sale of some of these key oil blocks, she sent him in the name of reforms. No one knows where these reforms are, as yet, when repeated consultations, revisions and recasting on go, and with insult being added to injury, as new related laws are being introduced in this evolving sector. The situation had come to ahead to the point that NOCAL authorities had to invite a 17 year old relative of the president, a foreign high school student, to fly from across the Atlantic Ocean and come to make presentation at one of the oil law reform consultations held in the country quite recently. The fact remains that all this mess is possible because impunity has been inaugurated as the most powerful tool used by the Black American Settlers to perpetuate and

sustain their unimaginable culture of corruption. The issue of stealing government money and selling out fellow citizens of indigenous backgrounds like domesticated animals started far back with Stephen Allen Benson as early as the 1850s with great impunity. Among outstanding economic criminals came Arthur Barclay, Charles King, and Bill Tubman notably, all with incredible impunity. Madam Sirleaf has joined the fray and has now performed even worse than all her predecessors combined. If she, her children, and their closed affiliates are not brought to book and dealt with legally for this wanton mortgaging of our precious resources, the last chance given to another of the Jones, Ureys, Tubman, McClain’s, Weeks etc. to ascend to the presidency of this country would definitely mean the auctioning of our balance deep water oil backs at 10 cents each and the selling of our balance Agricultural lands to foreigners probably for 2 cents per acre, then finally, the broad day selling of our human beings as they already tested the waters with their Ebola claims the last time. Oh what a disgraceful set of people so called an elite class in this place. But the Plain Truth Revolution has designed something good for them by the grace of God. C. One historian opined some time ago that, “No matter how rich a country is in natural resources, if the country does not have the manpower to develop those resources, the resources would be of very little or no use at all to the owner country. And if the resources are developed by companies from different countries, the owner country stands to benefit nothing much in terms of employment and other opportunities.” Liberia is a classic example of this paradox. The country is blessed with critical natural resources; the land is so fertile and rainfall is abundant, but trained manpower has never been available. Even if the foreign firms decide to train Liberians, they will still have a limitation so as not to affect their own business interests adversely. These are some of the seamy sides of capitalism. Madam Sirleaf, the Harvard trained administrator has even exacerbated this negative economic trend by now promoting Foreign Direct Investment even more than her predominantly illiterate and visionless predecessors (we would always exempt Mr. Tolbert to a huge extent). Today, Liberia is boasting of over US$19 billion in Foreign Direct Investment that citizens feel almost no impact of (rssnews.com, June12, 2013), and this President is even yearning to attract more and more FDIs if afforded the least opportunity, with no efforts, no plans whatsoever, to introduce any form of value addition or to even begin working on the country’s own production capabilities. It’s so amazing to learn of such cruelty. What’s the essence now, of learning or going to school, when we will not change anything? Unfortunately, all this bad news is being engined by corruption. D. Liberia’s chief economic argument from the date of its spoiled foundation has been this: The country believes that in order for it to achieve a rapid growth rate, it must receive a high rate of investment, and since the rate of savings in Liberia is so low to facilitate such huge level of investment, the best alternative is to look for grants, loans, and foreign direct investments desperately, to the very sad neglect of embarking on massive industrialization plans that will boost domestic production and consumption. According to Prof. Tuan Wleh, it is along these lines, or based

upon this distorted economic view that the Americo-Liberian economists, backed by their foreign experts have concluded now that the domestic market is too small to warrant the establishment of giant industries/factories; and so, the country should only export raw materials and wait for God’s time for the market to expand before she contemplates on setting up basic industries. Furthermore, the Black American Economists and their foreign experts continue to argue that Liberia lacks the skilled technicians required to operate complex industries; and hence, the country must generate this type of manpower first before it can think about industrialization. For this reason, the government established the Liberia Free Zone Authority (LIFZA), where foreign companies come and assemble or package their goods for export, taking advantage of, in the exact word of LIFZA, “Liberia’s reliable and inexpensive workforce; its policy of freedom from taxation and nationalization; its free currency and exchange controls, and its liberal export and import duties, the enjoyable low government and labor pressures. It is through the pursuit of such strategy that Liberia will be able to achieve economic development the AmericoLiberians say. This is the same economic policy that Madam Sirleaf and her government dishonorably continue to pursue, even more aggressively than ever before for Liberia during this 21st century. This President, like her first predecessor, J. J. Roberts, is off the country almost every week in search of grants, loans, various kinds of assistance, and foreign investors to come and take over Liberia’s lands and other vital resources for “small money.” In fact, at the receipt of credentials of ambassadors from others other countries, Ellen can be heard, with emphasis, announcing the level of natural resources that Liberia has, that she will be glad to see them trying to work around which one they are interested in exploiting. As further proof of all this, Liberia, for the past very few years has contracted grants and loans worth pretty close to US$2 billion barely 3 and a half years after the international community waived an unproductive US$ 4.9 billion debt owed by the country. More on Liberia’s recent loans and grants can be found in President Sirleaf’s Annual Message To The Second Session Of The 53rd Legislature (published in the January 30, 2013 edition of the National Chronicle Newspaper) and the 2013 update of the Liberian economy by Finance Minister Amara Konneh (published in the News Newspaper of September 19, 2013). In a Monday, August 6, 2012 exclusive interview with the FrontPage Africa Newspaper, the President of Liberia boasted about this economic trajectory when she said, “We went all out to look for support in terms of grants, soft loans, philanthropic assistance etc., and we are making progress with our standing with the philanthropists.” Fellow citizens, who will want to always doubt what philosophers and historians tell us about these kinds of developments. In the book, Liberian history up to 1847, it is mentioned that Great Britain, from the inception of Liberia, described this so-called nation, as a mere “American Philanthropic Experiment. Did they really lie, almost

200 years on? Then Norman Cousin says, “History is a vast early warning system.” Did he lie too? E. Form the foundation of the Liberian state, government has been the only “industry” for employing its citizens. According to Prof. Tuan Wleh, the situation of everyone’s dependence on government jobs to survive started turning out so badly as early as the 1860s to the extent that Monrovia turned into a one-industry town, and this industry, as said above, was, and still continues to be, GOVERNMENT, an entity, according to the Liberian mentality that only consumes and doesn’t produce. As a result, a new, very serious crisis crept in; and that is, government could no longer pay its subjects adequately and regularly. To overcome this ever growing, and very embarrassing short fall, authorities began the twin errors that have gotten Liberia to where it still is today: Borrowing money from outside to attend to its financial obligations, including the ever growing number of government employees Auctioning the country’s resources for anything that comes the so called leaders’ ways. To date, and under the gavel of such a prominent international civil servant like the Americans’ Black Settlers’ Iron Lady, Ellen Johnson, this nasty situation continues unabated. The two narratives below corroborate this claim:  Liberia’s 2013/2014 proposed budget was in the tone of US$582 million (www.front pageafricaonline.com, August 11, 2013). Appearing on a local radio talk show, Farbric FM 101 New Dawn on September 9, 2013, the media consultant at the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Lawrence Randall, confirmed that, of this amount above, payroll alone, as always, would consume over $200 million, while procurement items, a good portion of which are consumables, will take over $200 million as usual. Assuming that the both categories of expenses above took around US$450 million, as suggested by Mr. Randall, and as normal, it means that recurrent spending alone constitutes a little over 77% of Liberia’s annual budget. No national budget will fail to include other provisions like contingency, allotments for the settlement of obligations, both domestic and international etc. So, of the around 22% of the budget left after recurrent spending, provisions will have to be made for contingency, for payables etc., which means that Liberia is left with probably less than 10% of her budget each year for capital expenses – a scenario that translates into the crude reality that this Black American country will NEVER EVER be able to build a 100 km asphalt road for herself independently. What a disgrace that continues to persist with no sign of improvement, even with the most experienced Americo-Liberian again in the driver’s seat. Note: Recurrent expenses include money spent on such regular and short term things as compensation, goods, services etc. while capital expenditure includes what is spent on such things as infrastructure and other forms of development for long term benefit  Because government continues to remain the only industry for the employment of Liberians, other than foreign capitalists who operate at will, Liberia can never improve her unemployment record independently. According to a Public Agenda

Newspaper Report of January 29, 2014, President Sirleaf had promised Liberians in 2011 to create 20,000 jobs per annum as of the beginning of 2012. But by December of 2013, two years after this BIG LIE from Ellen, when the government was engaged by some people, including the media, to show evidence of the 20,000 jobs promised two years back, Madam Sirleaf and her ministry of labor officials treated this kind of grave national issue with mockery, characterized by laughter, as if this was nothing to be serious about. If Liberia were a country that believed in their economic wellbeing more than stupid politics, people would have gotten in the streets ever since to ensure that those jobs were created every year. However, thank God it’s not late, this is exactly what the Plain Truth Revolution has come to ensure – a country more concerned about their health, education, and general economic outlook than one being ridden by foolish criminals calling themselves politicians time in and out. F. The above reckless handling of the emerging oil sector is an extension of Presidents King and Tubman’s lavish Open Door Policy, now being sustained by another American Black Settler, Madam Ellen Johnson. In fact, this dirty policy has now taken root so much under her that Liberia is currently only concerned about the raw materials to be exported rather than what can be produced and consumed domestically; and as a result, the country still suffers these elementary, but very serious economic paralyses, like the few listed below, during this age and time:  The country still imports over 98% of what it can consume  The development of the country depends totally on the pace set by foreign capitalists and donors  Foreign capitalist, after they have acquired all of our country’s resources for peanuts determine our employment/unemployment levels and other key macroeconomic economic indicators  Foreign investors in developing countries like Liberia, are primarily interested in huge profiteering, and as quickly as possible before the locals can come to themselves. For that reason, they hardly teach citizens all the tricks of their trade. As a result, the host country will always not have adequately trained and skilled workforce because this reality threatens the interests of the foreign firms who also want to create opportunities and wealth for their own people first. Liberia is perpetually tied to this bleak fate.  Liberia continues to survive completely at the mercy of the world market, a very dangerous economic situation. Take for example this harsh fact that the developed countries with their advanced technology, always control the world market, and are capable of replacing imported products with artificial ones, or capable of producing these same products massively in substandard forms for export. G. Lastly, from 1822 to this new millennium, Liberia’s economic growth has reportedly been stunted by three key problems always: Very few have had the capacity to start their own businesses; the government does not empower its own citizens and it does not promote thinking into entrepreneurship Those in positions of influence and authority; those with the capacity

(i.e. authoritative capacity) to change this ugly economic situation with their education and experience, almost all of them prefer government jobs and politics. For the very few that try to venture into entrepreneurship, all of the biggest obstacles to business progress haunt them daily, including very poor governmental services and public infrastructure, but high taxes and aggressive collection mechanisms against locals, coupled with very poor and sometimes absolutely no access to capital. We would like to specify some of the key problems here as the fact that from 1822, this failed country has never had good roads, not even urban roads, talk less about farm to market roads; no reliable transportation facilities (meaning vehicles etc.); no reliable electricity and so forth. As a result of these and many more nightmares, it takes highly established, highly connected, strongly supported individuals and firms, in terms of finances, to venture into the Liberian business terrain, characteristics one could just entirely attribute to only foreigners or some other crooks who are in government. Because of this, Liberia still holds the dubious distinction of having the largest number of foreign owned business enterprises in Africa, and probably now in the world. Almost 5 out of every 7 business enterprises in Liberia according to Prof. Wleh’s In the Cause of the People” are foreign owned. Liberia is particularly dependent on foreign enterprises for its annual production output and its growth. This economic trend unfortunately had derived from the settlers’ mentality which they have successfully inculcated into the Liberian society, including the indigenous population, even down to the baby born yesterday. In the settlers’ view, business and farming are reserved for very low class citizens, which implies, for example, the vast uneducated indigenous population. Up to this 2016, all these appalling realities remain the same, 194 years on. 5-5). Liberia’s so called Iron Lady, the relatively last of the Settlers’ 22 presidents in a country that has had 24 presidents or presidential administrations, acknowledges that strong and decisive leadership is crucial to Africa’s chronic problems and makes reference to President Paul Kagame’s superb leadership in Rwanda. But while the real Iron Lady, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom, holder of Bachelor’s in Chemistry (with emphasis in X-ray Crystallography), trained, educated and seasoned barrister, with specialization in taxation, leader of the British Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990 etc. had to close her eyes in the early 1980s to drastically reduce direct taxes, increase indirect taxes, increase interest rates etc. to slow the growth of the money supply in her economy as a way of solving the chronic economic problems her government had inherited, which eventually resulted to a huge reduction in the rate of inflation in Britain at the time, thereby putting prices under control, the Americo-Liberia Iron Lady, who claims to be trained in Economics or Business Management from what many would call the world’s most prestigious University, Harvard, is on record each time declaring to her people that she has, or her government has, no control over prices and other economic variables. While the real Iron Lady stubbornly refused to yield to separatist or dissident Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners’ demands to be

granted political prisoner status, which meant going back to status quo, on grounds that restoring these kinds of rights or making such concession would translate into a bad precedent as she declared “crime is crime is crime”, it is not political” which resulted into the deaths of Bobby Sands and nine others on hunger strikes while demanding these political prisoner rights, the Americo-Liberian part of Iron Lady is on record that she is busy preventing corruption, but not punishing for it (because her parents probably told her to spare the rod while training the child) (FrontPage Africa Monday, August 6, 2012, UN General Assembly Address 2013 etc.) Note: we are not necessarily saying here that we must be so adamant or inflexible to the extent that people die from hunger strikes, but there are times that we must put our feet down to uphold certain moral principles based on what is at stake. The Americo-Liberian Iron Lady is also on record once for appointing one John Steward to head the Liberia Maritime Authority, but it was later revealed by different sources that Mr. Stewart, probably a dual citizenship holder, had 13 indictments hanging against him in Washington D.C. (FrontPage Africa, August 6, 2012). This same Americo-Liberian Iron Lady, after her government had indicted a key official (Ellen Corkrum) for multiple crimes, including economic sabotage, theft of property, criminal conspiracy etc. (The People Newspaper, Friday August 2, 2013) and she instructed her security operatives to have this indicted fugitive stopped from fleeing the country, the main person who should have implemented this order, the country’s Police Chief, was reportedly caught on tape facilitating the smooth escape of the fugitive indictee, which was successful (frontpageafricaonline.com). For some other problem with conduct, this Police Chief in question, Director Chris Massaquoi, was subject of a Senate Vote of No Confidence, followed by their request to the President to have him immediately disrobed sometime early 2014, according to media reports. Almost 4 years on, after this Corkrum issue, with the Senate’s fake mandate coming in later, this same Police Chief was still enjoying the confidence of the government, and was in fact, even once heard publicly dismissing two very low class, newly recruited subordinates (i.e. one Humphrey Karn and Varney Massallay) for allegedly taking bribes valued at around US$ 0.16 or LS$30. (ELBC News, May 24-26, 2014). He enjoyed his governmental post for long years until some international job opportunity came his way before he reportedly asked his boss to replace him. The allegations against these two young guys remain heavily contested, but in a Black American outcasts’ Liberia, these officers risk NEVER being accorded any fair justice. The Plain Truth Revolution must be categorical here of course, that a “Chris Massaquoi” acting independently under an independent Grain Coast, would never be involved with these kinds of horrible maneuvers because members of our 16 indigenous Ethnic groups, as he is, are on the average good and productive, but when acting under the devilish influence of Americo-Liberians, in their so-called government, that’s when they behave this way, sometimes even unconsciously, just to keep life going. More to the “decisiveness deficit” of this Americo-Liberian Iron Lady, recordings later revealed to the public by the same indicted fugitive mentioned above, featured the government’s Defense Minister scorning and disparaging the government for rampant corruption, and blasting the President herself for keeping corrupt officials in government (the Informer Newspaper August 14, 2013). The so-called Iron Lady never took any action in response to this recording either in terms of correcting the faults in

government alluded to by the Defense Minister, or taking the Minister to task if his statements were EVER wrong. What an incredible lack of leadership and principles – the hallmark of almost all Americo-Liberian leaderships for which they must be done away with completely now from our public sector, at least for 100 years until thoroughly rehabilitated. 6-6). A President who defined True Reconciliation and National Healing as perfecting democracy and spreading progress, has commanded the following track records, among many other appalling ones, when it comes to perfecting this democracy and spreading this much talked-about progress:  According to Social Scientist, democracies can only survive in the midst of credible, objective, and independent democratic institutions run by educated and sound minds. But when, under this Americo-Liberia Iron Lady, the Executive Branch of Government can, just according to a single audit report (as decried by Rep. Bhofal Chambers of Maryland County), negotiate and approve 68 concession agreements within a short range of time, 66 of which breach national laws, talk less about international laws, and all this is ratified by the Legislature with ease; and then, not a single day in this country one would hear the Judiciary successfully taking the Legislature or the Executive to task in the spirit of perfecting the System Of Checks And Balances etc., then where are the trusted democratic institutions through whose actions reconciliation will be fostered and progress spread. Under this President, an Auditor General, that is, John Morlu, who took the most aggressive of steps recorded so far in this country’s recent history to truly fight corruption, including the preparation and subsequent dispatch of over 70 strong audit reports to the requisite authorities, recommendations for the nullification of bogus and faulty concession agreements etc. was dispossessed of his job in favor of another Auditor General later referred to by analysts as the President’s Project to Weaken the Fight Against Corruption.” To prove critics right, this man that replaced Mr. Morlu, is reported to have commissioned 42 audits but could never conclude any, and was later embarrassingly fired by the same President herself through some strong Legislative intervention for his proven involvement with acts of conflict of interest and corruption (InProfile Daily, August 27, 2013), surely because he never built some good, criminal rapport with them, though. John Morlu could not maintain his job because of the government’s problem with him for exposing corruption, and his dismissed successor did not stand any trial for the alleged crimes he committed. No democracy works like this, and progress can never be spread this way.  Under this woman, who was admiring Paul Kagame in her memoir just yesterday, while President Kagame still, up to this 2016, pursues all suspected perpetrators and accomplices of his country’s 1994 genocide (although the official trials just ended their 20th year), turning them over to both national and international courts one by one, so as to use the justice system to strongly avoid any future reoccurrence of similar national calamity, Liberia has only been embarking on a process to sustain and further exacerbate the perversion of laws and of justice. For example, after a deadly civil war that took away the lives of around half a million citizens, damaged enormous amounts of properties, and displaced millions, when the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission cross-examined each of the major perpetrators and

major victims, and then indicted Madam Sirleaf and a few of her other top officials, they manipulated the Americo-Liberians’ rotten Supreme Court at the time under another Settler descendant (specifically planted for this mission) to rule against the TRC’s recommendation banning the indictees from politics for 30 years as unconstitutional and a violation of the indictees’ constitutional rights. What they and their Supreme Court simply meant in this instance was that the over 500,000 persons killed in cold blood through the enterprises set up by Madam Sirleaf and the others didn’t have their parts of constitutional and even basic human rights. (http://limany.org: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 etc. Ten years into the Americo-Liberian Corruption Queen’s regime, nothing major has changed in the US State Department’s Assessment of the country’s human rights and justice system report. For instance, these major reports have almost always begun and closed this same way: The introduction has almost always said, “The most serious human rights abuse [or issues] were those tied to lack of justice: judicial inefficiency and corruption; lengthy pretrial detention; denial of due process; and harsh prison conditions……... Other important human rights abuses included police abuse, harassment and intimidation of detainees and others; arbitrary arrests and detention; official corruption…….” Then at the closing of these reports, one would always find this assessment, “Judges were susceptible to bribes to award damages in civil cases. Judges sometime requested bribes to try cases, release detainees from prison, or find defendant not guilty in criminal cases. Defense attorneys and prosecutors sometimes suggested that defendants pay bribes to secure favorable ruling from, or to appease judges and prosecutors.”  The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, or LACC, another democratic institution set up to fight the nation’s so called public enemy#1 has no trust. They only invest gate minor cases and there are other cases before them whose subjects are beyond their (i.e. the LACC’s) scope or simply put, above Liberian laws. For example, in the LACC 2013 annual report, you can find such cases like “David Kotee made/asked to Restitute $12,000 To Public Works Ministry”, “Smythe Institute/Africa Motors Refund Concluded” etc., but for cases like “Grace Kpan/Montserrado County Development Fund And Social Development Fund Mismanagement,” the remarks seen there is “no cooperation.” There is a case involving the National Petroleum, and LACC remarked, “acquisition of requisite documents from LPRC was not forth coming” etc. At the close of the US State Department’s 2013 Reports, it says, the LACC received 25 cases (although LACC website said 16), investigated 23 of them, and recommended four for prosecution, resulting to no convictions. Again, if all these institutions, including more not mentioned here are not trusted, then when will Liberia attain generalized trust, a key and indispensable social capital, and how will reconciliation EVER come about; and finally, how will progress EVER spread as the Americo-Liberian Iron Lady has said? To add insult

to injury, the President herself promises every time and lies, then one wonders, who then in this country would be trusted? (7-7. In her scathing criticisms of Samuel Doe, Madam Sirleaf said, under Doe, Liberia &. was exhausted and near collapse, citing among many things that the economic 8-8). resources of the country were being plundered and mismanaged, some of the major handicaps which she was insinuating owed their roots to corruption and bad governance. For this, the Harvard trained Administrator highlighted corruption as the public enemy #1. Here is a gist of the 10 year highlights of an Iron Lady that had declared corruption as the principal enemy of the public sector in her first inaugural address of 2006: a) Every honest person would agree that the first and foremost tool that any serious corruption fight would employ is a definite and all-encompassing Code of Conduct that will clearly define all acts of corruption and misconduct, and then specify acts that constitute breaches, including other accompanying penalties. The settlers’ Iron Lady is quite aware of this elementary fact. Liberia’s first attempt to carve out a code of official conduct was in 1979 immediately after its deadly Rice Riots, but the committee set up to do this work either didn’t report, or their report wasn’t made public before the death of the president that constituted the committee and the complete overthrow of his government in 1980 (Liberian History Since 1980, p.4-5). The whole project then died. In fact, it is speculated that Madam Sirleaf was even part of this committee. More than 35 years on, and 10 years into the AmericoLiberian Iron Lady’s administration, the issue of a definite and all-encompassing code of conduct to be used as a reference and authority to fight corruption is still an elephant in the room. b) When the flaw-laden Liberian Constitution was being drafted between 1981 and 1983, Constitutional Committee Chairman, Dr. Amos Sawyer included the establishment of a Claims Court that would hold government officials directly responsible for personal damages to the state or any of its people. Right upon discovering this key anti-corruption and behavior regulation provision, the political editors and elite of the day vehemently deleted it with a “5G” speed, threw it into the dust bin, and made it never ever to resurface, or if it ever resurfaced somehow as it did later, NEVER in the life time of Liberia should it EVER be implemented (Liberian History Since 1980, P.12). Madam Sirleaf took oath to defend these kinds of actions intended to preserve the Liberian heritage and culture (Endemic Corruption), so this action, glaringly intended to sustain corruption, will remain conscientiously upheld by all Liberian Presidents like her. True to this claim, no authority in this country is ever thinking about the need for establishing anything to be called a Claims Court, though some provision appear in Article 26 of the current constitution for it to be established. c) The United Nations came up with a comprehensive anti-corruption package in October of 2003 that encompasses the prevention of corruption, the criminalization of this evil, the forging of international cooperation in tackling issues of corruption; and a very key one, the recovery of all assets lost to corruption. The UN then requested all of its member states to sign, approve [ratify], and accede to [or

domesticate] this protocol between December 2003 and December 2005. Liberia, who has almost always been the first among nations of the world in signing and ratifying international protocols just for the sole purpose of receiving assistance and contributing nothing substantial, has only been able to sign onto this strong UN antiCorruption package (in principle), but has never ratified the protocol officially to date, talk less about domesticating it, according to the UNODC website. And more over, corruption, in itself, has NEVER as yet, been criminalized in Liberia an embarrassing development persistently highlighted in the US State Department Justice related reports on Liberia. d) Here are a few accounts of how this John F. Kennedy School of Government’s graduate and her top officials have been documented either directly involved with corruption or engaged in actions that openly protagonize corruption or demonstrate vested interest in corruption. Sorry that we may not be able to go into much details here as compared to works done in some of our other revolutionary pamphlets due to space and time, but further references will be provided appropriately: i.

In a special editorial of the National Chronicle Newspaper of Thursday, April 26, 2012, it was lamented that Madam Sirleaf and her son, Robert unilaterally waived $3.7 billion to American Oil giant Chevron, while awarding Oil Blocks 11, 12 and 14. The total value of the entire deal was confirmed by the US Embassy to be estimated at $10.7 billion according to a leaked US Diplomatic Cable published by an American Foreign Service publication called ProPublica. According to this outlet, although the US. Embassy in Liberia declined at the time to make Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield available for interview, she celebrated the deal in a January 25, 2011 cable with the subject, “Outreach and Commercial Success,” in which Ambassador Greenfield wrote as follows:” Embassy intervention and advocacy assured a level, open playing field that resulted in Chevron signing a US$10.7 billion [sic] contract. This constitutes the largest concession in Liberian History…” Note: this is how all of Liberia’s previous 10 oil blocks were auctioned out in very shady deals. The National Legislature, confirming how all of the 10 previous oil concession agreements violated Liberian laws in a National Chronicle, Thursday, April 26, 2012 story entitled “After Thoroughly Researching The Petroleum Law, Oil Contracts – A Vehicle To Enrich A Privileged Few” made the following smart comments as presented in the story: “….According to the Legislators observations, the process of deriving a national decision on the awarding of oil blocks through a well-designed and manipulated international competitive bidding, serving as a mechanism to channel a national decision is counterproductive and serves as a vehicle to defraud the country and enrich a privileged few at the expense of the rest of the country.” The story further quotes the lawmakers as saying, “The action of President Sirleaf and her son to pervert the PPCC (Public Procurement and Concessions Commission) Laws and illegally award Oil Block 13 to their American interest, Chevron (although Oil Block 13 changed hands later to ExxonMobil, another American interest) will definitely undermine the budget process of fiscal year 2011/2012,” the legislators observed.

As we said earlier, this is how all of the oil sector contracts have been going. Block 13 again, believed to be the richest of all of Liberia’s oil blocks thus far, a 625,000 acre (2,500 square kilometer) oil block, 18 miles offshore Liberia’s central coast, was auctioned out in a similar shady way. Oppositions from a cross section of professionals and Liberian opinion leaders came against the Block 13 deal. Even at the level of the Legislature itself, Representatives Aquarius Gray and Bhofal Chambers alarmed or suggested that the Block 13 deal was heavily fraudulent. At some point, speculations surfaced that members of the Legislature were demanding US$5 million as kickbacks to ratify the agreement although another news had it that the agreement was negotiated and concluded in New York by the Executive and representatives of the foreign firms. Inspite of the many cries and oppositions however, the plenary of both houses chose to ignore all the complaints and ratify this deal on Tuesday April 2, 2013. In a FrontPage Africa story that came up that same April, it was reported that (of the alleged $5million requested earlier), US$2.5 million was instead dished out allegedly to lure the Legislature into ratifying the deal. A few days after signing the deal, Madam Sirleaf and a few of her top government officials were reportedly celebrating their success at a cocktail reception with their Exxon Mobil counterparts at the residence of US Ambassador Deborah Malac, where Ellen paid homage to all those who made the deal come through. This what the President said in this FrontPage Africa Report, “It took a lot of work. There were many times when we went into hitches, but we are glad that it is now over. It’s been a great adventure and we are so happy that this great adventure came to a successful conclusion with Exxon Mobil being a great partner to Liberia…...” To conclude all that has happened with respect to the first 10 official oil block contracts, House of Representatives’ Ways, Means and Finance Committee Chairman, Hon. Emmanuel Nuquay, on May 8, 2012 addressed a communication to Speaker J. Alex Tyler as reported in the May 9, 2012 edition of the National Chronicle Newspaper, revealing that all of the 10 oil block contracts signed thus far by the government were terribly flawed (we will say here terribly corrupt). Here is an excerpt of the letter from the Newspaper’s report quoting Hon. Nuquay: “…We established through NOCAL’s report that all of the existing Production Sharing Contracts violate sections 3.3, 3.4 and 3.7 of the Petroleum Law of 2002. Today, Hon. Speaker and members, we are confronted with the situation where 10 production sharing contracts grossly and flagrantly violate our Petroleum Laws. We are blessed that this is happening under the authoritative gavel of President Sirleaf, a great leader, who knows the magic of renegotiating contracts to benefit Liberia” – the lawmaker threw in an irony to decry the situation. ii.

A National Chronicle Newspaper underground investigation dug out another ploy by the President and her inner circles to dupe Liberia of US$100 million in a deal in which they had requested a loan (already being approved allegedly) of US$160 million from the Equatorial Guinean President, Theodore Obiang Nguama for the

rehabilitation of the Roberts International Airport, which investigations proved actually that it cost US$60 million. At the point of almost receiving the money, the paper reported that the GOL was putting the country under false impression that President Nguama was extending Liberia a grant. The paper, in these investigations also uncovered a web of corrupt deals about the first family’s involvement with the running of the Roberts International Airport, including their shares in the hotel and catering services at the airport, all under shady arrangements. These investigations further exposed how the President had designated her Brother-In-Law’s Foster Son to oversee the renovation of the airport and had tipped him to become the next Public Works Minister just to both execute this contract and to protect the First Family’s interests at the airport. When these secrets leaked, as usual, there was fury and threat of lawsuit from the Executive Mansion against the paper, but under the criminal Black American Settlers of this place, these are just scams to save face and to drive away public attention when exposed (National Chronicle Monday, June 24, 2013). Meanwhile today, all of what the Executive Mansion was trying to refute according to reports, including the President’s intention to appoint her Brother-In-Law’s Foster Son to become Public Works Minister, and the actual cost of rehabilitating the Roberts International Airport being $60 million etc. according to that National Chronicle’s Story have come to reality. iii.

In the Black American Settlers’ Liberia, a president can plead or stand in the gap for officials indicted for malpractices instead of allowing the officials exonerate themselves. The Americo-Liberian Iron Lady is on record for consistently putting up defense for her Finance Ministers to date, even if the ministers themselves lie conspicuously to the public. For example, she put up a strong defense once for her first and second Finance Ministers respectively when both were implicated in a HIPC Audit Report that indicted them of misappropriating US$5 million (Public Agenda Newspaper: “LACC Wants Ngafuan, Others Suspended”). This President tried covering up for a third Finance Minister when it became glaring that he had blatantly lied under oath for diverting desperately needed US$13 million EU (European Union) support to the Liberian Health Sector (www.liberiacorruptionwatch.org, July 1, 2013; www.frontpageafricaonline.com, July 2, 2013 and August 11, 2013; and the Inquirer Newspaper, July 4, 2013).

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In the Americo-Liberian World, the fight against corruption gets stronger when officials accused of criminal dealings are reassigned, shifted, reshuffled, turned over to a peer department/ministry to rest a bit, asked to honorably resign; or in a scam move, dismissed, just to divert public attention while one waits for a reassignment etc. – all depending on the gravity of the corrupt act committed or the level of vested interest that the First Family or any ‘big fish’ has in the case at stake. For example, when former Agriculture Minister Dr. Chris Toe was accused of bribery and the squandering of US$400,000 from the Rubbers Planters Association’s bank account, and this became somewhat evident, he reportedly requested the

opportunity to tender in his resignation (so as not to be prosecuted) and was granted his wish (Daily Observer Newspaper, September 7, 2009). According to the same source, former Public Works Minister Luseni Donzo, when he was accused of mismanaging several road development projects, and it became crystal clear, even from audit reports, he was reassigned to the position of Infrastructure Advisor or to the President. Bong County superintendent Rennie Jackson, the same source reports, was suspended for having “mismanaged” County Development Funds in the tone of US$500,000. He was later reinstated to his position. In more related developments, Madam Sirleaf’s favorite for the leadership of the General Auditing Commission in 2012, after discontinuing the term of “no nonsense” John S. Morlu in April 2011, Robert Kilby, and his Cameroonian partner in crime, Nassah Panks, organized a “shell company” called the Independent Software Certification Company (ISCC), with alleged aims, among others, to defraud the government, according to sources. Kilby took over the GAC on September 3, 2012, and in less than three months, signed a $220,000 fleet and asset management contract with his friend, Pearing Davis Parkinson, head of the General Services Agency (GSA), on December 3, 2012, in total contravention of already weak Liberian Laws. On Tuesday, July 2, 2013, Madam Pearing Parkinson, in a budget hearing at the House of Representatives, unconsciously leaked out the ISCC fleet and asset management deal that Kilby had signed with her entity. This greatly exposed the both officials and the house was pushed to pass a vote of no confidence in Kilby, and in fact, the both officials (In Profile Daily Newspaper, August 27, 2013). The Settlers’ Iron Lady was constrained to dismiss her project Robert Kilby and her close friend Parkinson to save face. The both were never prosecuted and the next news that came up later through the grapevines was that President Sirleaf’s Settler Sister, Madam Parkinson was reappointed as some Ambassador At Large. The Congress for Democratic Change’s Vice Chairman for Operations, Mr. Mulbah Morlu confirmed this Parkinson reassignment news on a local radio, Sky FM on February 13, 2014. v.

According to a Friday August 2, 2013 report in the People’s Newspaper, Liberia Airport Authority Board Chairman, Musa Bility, Roberts International Airport Managing Director, Ellen Corkrum and others had been indicted by the Government of Liberia for multiple crimes, including economic sabotage, theft of property, criminal conspiracy etc. Few days later, according to www.emansion.gov.lr, Liberia’s Iron Lady, speaking at the Certification Program of members of the Nimba County Land Dispute Commission she had setup earlier and asked him, Mr. Bility to head, President Sirleaf, in appreciating the Land Commission Chairman, already indicted Musa Bility, made the following comments, implicitly making reference to the indictment hanging over her friend’s head: “He always responds to government’s call to take on difficult and strategic assignments. Because of that, sometimes he gets all kinds of criticisms and false accusations; but in each case, I can say to you that

the confidence we have in the carrying out of his responsibility with integrity and commitment is strong because we believe in him…” so says the President. vi.

The Iron Lady’s Party Chairman himself had gotten so fed up with some of these mess that he had to express the following observations during his Independence Day Oration of July 26, 2013, according to the People Newspaper, Monday, July 29, 2013’s edition: “…..There must be something that we have not done right or something that we ought to do that we haven’t done yet, [which] makes people, including the LACC (Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission) itself to criticize us for corruption in our country every day. Liberia cannot be transformed especially when public service is evaluated by the Liberian people at large as the place where corruption persists and is practiced as a matter of freedom…..” e) In order to qualify for debt waiver and begin contracting new loans, Liberia had to meet certain good governance and anti-corruption policy requirements of the international community, something which culminated into the establishment of key anti-corruption and other integrity institutions like the General Auditing Commission (GAC), the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC), the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LETI) etc. between 2007 and 2009. As if the attainment of total debt relief in 2010, and the beginning of contracting new loans a year or two later meant an end in itself, Liberia immediately began its “business as usual” by impeding, discouraging and disparaging the functions and roles of these key integrity institutions. The Liberian Government now constantly expresses doubts about the conclusiveness of the GAC reports. Almost every official whose institution is audited now rubbishes the commission’s reports, according to an article in the September 19, 2013’s edition of the National chronicle Newspaper. As a result of the aggression against the GAC, the same source narrates, about 80 reports from audits conducted in the past years had been gathering dust at the National Legislature, awaiting public hearing, news which claimed the attention of UN Secretary General, Mr. Banki Moon, according to another local daily. An evidence of the lack of political will to confront this menace called corruption has been the apparent resistance or refusal by the National Legislature and the Judiciary to ever submit to audits, according to the same source. The Ministries of Information and Justice were reported to have declared that GAC reports were not reliable, and therefore, “no serious government will rush to court on the basis of mere audit reports because audit reports were not evidence.” The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission has been an object of condemnation too, and a victim of noncooperative postures from both the Legislature and the Judiciary. In a July 1, 2013’s publication of the New Dawn Newspaper, the then LACC Boss, Cllr. Frances Johnson Allison blamed lawmakers for lost opportunities for the country, when the 53rd National Legislature was reported to have, for the second time, rejected the bill to grant the LACC prosecutorial powers to handle corruption cases, on grounds that the Ministry of Justice could do the job, when in fact in most instances, it is reported that this Ministry clears suspects for what it almost always claims as “lack of sufficient evidence.” The LETTI also hired Moor Stevens – a British Auditing Firm – in 2012 to conduct some special compliance audit on concessions in the country, but a local daily revealed that the work, which was due to have been completed by

January 2013, was persistently delayed due to lack of cooperation. Later reports suggested that 66 out of Liberia’s 68 concessions available for audit or audited at the time however violated the National Laws and other best practices. This was also confirmed by Maryland County Representatives Bhofal Chambers. f) President Sirleaf, who throughout her election campaigns, assured the Liberians that if elected, she will wage a vigorous war on CORRUPTION regardless of where this cancer existed in society; and after her election renewed this commitment when she described corruption as a debilitating cancer, that among other things eroded faith in government; weakened accountability, transparency and justice; short changed (or short circuited ) and undermined key decision and policy making processes; stifled investments that help reduce unemployment; created hostility, distrust and anger; and as such, declared this practice/menace as public enemy #1, is now seen and heard all around the place after 10 years in power, still complaining that the Legislature is not agreeing with her to grant the LACC (Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission) prosecutorial powers to adequately handle corruption cases; and that, also, she has placed before the Legislature a proposed bill to establish some special court, “Criminal Court F” (just as Samuel Doe established the Special Military Tribunal for Corruption) to exclusively tackle graft cases. Meanwhile the country’s Judicial System has specialized criminal courts reportedly ranging from A-E, anyone of which could be designated for such responsibility, according to veteran lawyer and politician, and head of Ellen’s own Unity Party, Cllr. Varney Sherman. Moreover, Madam Sirleaf is now recorded in the pages of Liberian History as one of, if not the Settlers Most Powerful Presidents Ever, in terms of having an almost absolute control over the Legislature to the extent that Senator Gbehzongar Findley, President ProTempore of the Senate, was some time ago described by another Liberian Politician as President Sirleaf’s Personal Hangbag Carrier. This is a President who, according to a US. Diplomatic Cable of April 26, 2010, assured her business partner, US. Oil giant, Chevron, that she will ensure that the company’s oil concession contract in Liberia is ratified at once by the Legislature, despite the numerous faults that were being established surrounding and within said contract, and this ratification happened with “5G” speed. In fact, this is a president who has almost never failed convincing the National Legislature to ratify any of her government’s reportedly over 70 concession agreements thus far, no matter what faults were established surrounding and within those contracts. Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, reported by some source as the grand or great granddaughter of former Settlers’ President Hilary R. W. Johnson, is indeed that last straw that has broken the Black American Settlers’ embarrassing hegemonic camel’s back, and thus made the case stronger for us to now get the Johnsons, McClains’, Joneses’, Tubmans’ etc. completely out of our public sector peacefully at least for 100 years so they get rehabilitated, as the pure educated Natives of this country put back together their long broken pieces. This is an unrelenting demand of the Plain Truth Revolution. To conclude, it is common knowledge that, social, mental, psychological and other forms of intangible effects, like even low morale, can heavily impede our progress as individuals, especially while playing major leadership roles, but things even become worst psychologically and mentally when such things as invectives (insults), contemptuous provocations, and attacks are directed at our physical persons. Empathetic of the challenge of her gender, and admiration of her personal achievements, and then determined to help

her succeed, the international community has had, in our opinion, to bend over backwards on most occasions trying to encourage, please and motivate this Americo-Liberian Iron Lady so as to help her perform well, by extending her or conferring on her all sorts of prestigious accolades and honors apart from rendering her all of the financial and other key necessary support to make this Black American descendant achieve greatly. Madam Sirleaf is quite aware of this glaring fact and knows embarrassingly that she doesn’t deserve most of these awards. But apart from this, it is also suggested in some quarters that some people in the international community have gone this extra mile too (giving Ellen more gifts and accolades) just to enable them get hold of our country resources easily. So they flatter this unprincipled leader to closely win her over. Regardless of the intents however, we still celebrate with her, especially for some of those good things the international community has done for us through her. Let’s bring you a few examples of some of the great assistance been rendered Ellen’s Liberia, and how she too now lives her whole life in honors and accolades, coming from every angle almost every week:  When Liberia’s hands were tied economically with a crippling US$ 4.9 billion debt that no one in this country can definitely give account of how it was spent, the international community, through concerted efforts completely waived all this debt against Liberia by June 2010 to enable Madam Sirleaf and her governments spread their tentacles around for grants, loans and other forms of financing to facilitate their so-called developmental agenda.  When it was compelling that Liberia had to setup and operate the requisite anti-graft and good governance and transparency institutions to win international favor, and Liberia had no means on her own to establish and run these institutions independently, foreign partners helped in the establishment of the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, the General Audition Commission, the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the Public Procurement & Concessions Commission, the Internal Audit Agency etc. and still continue to finance these institutions to date  When the embarrassing news of Madam Sirleaf’s involvement in the country’s bloody and senseless Civil War began to spread like wild fire with an air of amazement and astonishment (especially because this woman had earlier been denying any links to people that brought war on the country), the international community was pushed’ to confer on her the Nobel Peace Prize to ease down the tension on her (October 7, 2011) and to also help her get reelected, but this Americo-Liberian Iron Lady’s own conscience terribly flogged her up to this point in 2016 that she didn’t deserve this award, when in fact, she was a major founder and the fund raiser of the leading warring faction that wreaked the most havoc on the country’s population. According to Wikipedia, Madam Sirleaf co-founded the Natural Patriotic Front of Liberia along with Charles Taylor and Tom Woewiyu. The Liberian Iron Lady is convinced inward that this peace prize awarded her was ‘dishonest’ because she has never been an advocate of justice in Liberia, but rather she has been a dangerous and blood thirsty political power seeker, for which she has been both allegedly and ‘provenly’ linked with all of the coups, warmongering and bloodletting of her times in

Liberia. These events include the 1985 Coup, after protesting her party’s defeat at the presidential polls, when she was according to sources later caught on tape in company with the coup makers/leaders (http://limany.org –January 7, 2011). This woman was linked to the establishment of another one of the Liberian warring groups, LURD (Liberians United For Reconciliation and Democracy) to fight Charles Taylor after she lost to this man, her own NPFL co-founder at the 1997 presidential polls again (according to an early 2014 WikiLeaks document republished by the Liberian (Microscope Newspaper Of February 28, 2014). Ellen knows very well that it is for the sake of power that she worked tirelessly behind the scenes to eliminate all potential human threats to her ambition, especially political heavy weights from the indigenous Liberian ‘braincamp’ like Jackson Doe etc. (http://thenewdispensation.com).  According to www.conservation.org/conferences/Africa these are some of the numerous medals and international accolades Mrs. Sirleaf has won:  Crisis group Fred Cunny Award For The Prevention Of Deadly Crises (2008)  FAO CERES medal-2008  The Friend Of The Media Award  Honorary Doctorate Degrees from 14 universities in the United States  Peace and Environment Africa Award from Nigeria (2013). This was reported by www.emansion.gov.lr  In the midst of the huge debt waiver and these countless awards and other major supports, within 3 years of this historic debt waiver, Liberia has now been extended more and more grants, loans, and other financial assistance now worth around US$2 billion learning from reliable sources  The Government of Liberia, in the midst of all this has been able additionally to now contract around US$19 billion in Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs), there are latest news that they are now downgrading this amount due to some economic trouble however, etc. But despite all these direct, indirect, personal, national, international etc. support put up for Madam Sirleaf and her Liberia to rise to the challenge, their complaints of difficulties encountered always, and their flimsy excuses have even intensified. Here are some of the results secured so far by Ellen and her government in response to all of the motivations provided her and support extended her and her government both domestically and internationally:  For the very first time ever in her history, and as the most powerful warning shot that the need for a complete change must never now be postponed as usual, this settler’s Liberia was disgracefully declared as planet earth’s Most Corrupt Country twice in just 3 years (2010-2013) by German-based Transparency International, a title as the sports people normally put it, Liberia still defends in some respects. A key comment worth noting that was made by the TI during Liberia’s 2013 “Certification for the World’s Most Corrupt Country”,” according to www.usatodady.com is this: “In Liberia, 86% of residents surveyed said that their government was ineffective at fighting corruption. This was the

largest portion of any of the 107 nations that Transparency International surveyed.” What a continuous disgrace to nationhood!  The United States, Liberia’s closest ally, doesn’t mince words in describing the failures, the appalling conditions, and incredibly dismal performances of a country which had been described by former President Grover Cleveland in 1886 as an “Offshoot of The American System. It was spelt out in the US State Department’s Report on Liberia that in 2012, the American Government didn’t want to keep allowing delusions to overshadow realities on ground in Liberia. Among other key revelations, the report indicated that after 9 years of peace and the recovery of economic growth following progress being made towards restarting security and the establishment of stability, Liberia is still one of the poorest countries (almost always among the least 5). Basic services such as public power, water and sewage, land phones, among others, are said to be either very limited or unavailable, and medical facilities in Liberia are very poorly equipped and also incapable of providing many services. Medicines are scarce, often beyond expiration dates and generally unavailable in most areas. In many places, doctors are scarce, and in places where doctors are supposed to render free medical services, they still expect payment in cash at the time of service. In describing Liberia justice system, the US State Department is always reporting a virtually completely failed system. For example, almost all of these reports start by saying, “The most serious human rights abuses were those tied to the lack of justice and end by saying “Judges were susceptible to bribes. They requested bribes to try cases, release detainees, finding defendants not guilty” etc.  The Ministry Finance, in its 2013 update of the Liberian Economy, in this time and age, reported that the very elementary manufacturing processes going on in the country [conducted by foreigners] were unfortunately experiencing extremely low outputs due to the lack of electricity, the lack of skilled workers, and high cost of inputs etc. The report also said that access to long term financing is limited; it continues, electricity reaches to less than 5% of the country’s population; all season’s road is within 5 kilometers; and that the interior of the country is cut off from the [so-called] capital city during the rainy season, and so forth.  In an allafrica.com’s June 2013 article, the Liberia Institute For Public Integrity (LIPI) lamented that over 60% of Liberians didn’t have access to pure and safe drinking water at the time when the Iron Lady Ellen was voted by her African colleagues as the continent’s Goodwill Ambassador for Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), although it is now established in Liberia that Mrs. Sirleaf and her Executive Branch are in the business of dishing out hundreds of millions of dollars of the country’s scarce resources in lobbying for international recognition, which culminates into some of these medals and awards.  Liberia is 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 etc. 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, however.; 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. But sadly this 194 year old country was graded in 2014 as the world’s second poorest country with a GDP per capita of less than, or around $500, according to www.hotnettz.com. In comparison, the world’s richest country in terms of this same GDP per capita indicator is now 43 year old Qatar, which was only doing sea trading and pearl (precious stones or gem) hunting before later discovering natural oil like Liberia has done today. This gulf state now wields a GDP per capita of over US$88,000. Meanwhile, Liberia started signing natural resource concession agreements more than 100 years ago, and has up to this 2016, signed over 90 concession agreements in different forms; has attracted closed to US$20 billion in Foreign Direct Investment just in few years (rssnews.com) and in around 3 years, beginning from 2010, has contracted new loans and grants closed to US$2 billion, if not more by now. Shamefully, upon hearing this news about ‘baby’ Qatar’s success, an old, failed, rusty Liberian Government began negotiating with the Persian Gulf State to help with its huge unemployment burden that has never improved since 1822. 

US Foreign Service publication, ProPpublica, a few years ago said that Liberia again was graded among the world’s least 5 countries in the UN Human Development index at which time more than 80% of the population was said to still live on less than $1.25 a day. This country was moreover reported to have the highest levels of income inequality in the world. These conditions are even been further exacerbated now by the Settlers’ Harvard trained economist, and Queen of Corruption. Because of all these appalling realities about Liberia, this is what the current US President, a Black or Colored, who from all indications should be naturally more sympathetic to Africans, continues to do, or has maintained as a position during all the active years of his leadership, apparently with a heavy heart, in response to Liberia’s poor governance and massive failure after even his administration has over the past few years invested, through the USAID, around $100 million trying to improve governance in this country. In mid2013, [which continued onto 2014, and in 2015], President Barack Obama renewed an executive order on Liberia in continuation of US National Emergency, with respect to the former Liberian regime of Mr. Taylor. The Concord Times Newspaper’s July 19, 2013 edition published a Whitehouse’s Statement on this issue as saying, “In a statement released on January 22, 2004 in Executive Order # 13348, the US Government declared a National Emergency with respect to the Taylor Regime pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 USC 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of Mr. Taylor and other persons; in particular their unlawful depletion of Liberian resources and their removal from the country and secreting of Liberian funds and property, which have undermined the country’s transition to democracy and the orderly development of its political, administrative and economic institutions and resources.” (Mr. Obama probably wanted to be diplomatic by not mentioning Madam Sirleaf by name in this statement, but from all indications, she and many of her officials are implicated here).

All of the unbearable realities presented about Liberia above can be summed up into the country’s categorization and characterization within the Fund for Peace’s Failed States Tracking, or index as published within two Liberian local dailies (the People and the Concord Times, both of July 19, 2013), excerpted as follows: “……According to the Foreign Policy Magazine’s Failed States Tracking, Liberia is rated very high among CRITICAL STATES that are at huge risks of returning to conflict. The report puts Liberia at a score of 93.3 (although Concord Times reports 95.1), which means that this mere American Philanthropic Experiment, as described by Great Britain some time ago, is too far away form stability and could rupture at any time again into conflict. Such rating, according to the report, can be interpreted as a serious collapse in the overall governance and management of the state. The report, in its breakdown by indicators, states that Liberia has terribly declined by 6.7% in human rights, while its economy faces a dreadful decline by 8.6%. [Meanwhile all this was being said when Liberia’s cruel Queen Jezebel and her officials were lying every time that the country’s economy was, and is in good health and growing by 8.1% annually. OH WHAT A TERRIBLE DEMONSTRATION OF MISCHIEF MAKING!!!!] The Failed State Index, produced by the Fund for Peace, is a critical tool in highlighting not only the normal pressures that all states experience, but also in identifying when those pressures are pushing a state towards the brink of failure. By highlighting pertinent issues in weak and failing states, the Failed State Index and the Social Science Framework plus the software application upon which it is built make political risk assessment and early warning of conflict accessible to policy makers and the public at large. Unfortunately and very shamefully, this is what all of the international support forced on Madam Sirleaf to make her own name and more importantly develop her poor country have all resulted into. In a radio program on one of Liberia’s FM dials, Early Morning Talk, on Love FM, a clip playing the voice of Maryland county Representative Bhofal Chambers had him making or suggesting the following statement while resigning from the ruling Unity Party of the Settlers’ Iron Lady: “…. I resigned from the UP because I now saw that the captain of this ship was heading for a serious shipwreck…..” He was referring here to Madam Sirleaf, Standard Bearer of the Unity Party. Dr. Chambers could not have said it any better or stronger than this!!!! Before closing, while it is true we all know that this country’s problems are foundational, huge and inherited, what TRUTH and SINCERITY, when used as the only tools, can help any knowledgeable leader accomplish, can go far beyond human understanding. Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf resided and studied in the Great United States of America for a huge portion of her life; some of her children were reportedly born in the US and are as such legitimate American citizens. Every time Madam Sirleaf is off to the United States for both private and official business etc. – all this meaning that if she were smart, honest, and Godfearing, she would have put up the most shining example of America’s magnificent leadership culture in Africa if our debate that Liberia is a massive failure that needs to be

dismantled and redone was not substantial enough. But this woman instead, has convincingly demonstrated the overwhelming barrenness of the Americo-Liberian Class or Ethnic Group with all of her so-called achievements and global recognition. America is no doubt the world’s greatest country with most of the world’s brightest brains; a White dominated society with some of the most painful racial provocations still being experienced in this 21st century. But imagine this superpower with other very difficult characteristics to handle, now live and work under the gavel of a young, Black Man, whose background, among other things, shows no record of a strong financial heritage/inheritance. According to two articles published by www.avengingtheancestors.com (entitled, “Top Nine Racist Things Republicans Have Done Since President Obama Has Been In Office” and “Have Republicans Ever Hated A President More Than Obama?”), these are some of harshly unthinkable personal trials and tribulations that President Obama has have to be undergoing while performing his Chief Executive Officer duty for the American Government and People; and in the midst of all these huge provocations/tribulations, the kinds of accomplishments this Black young President, ever in the history of America, can now boast of in 5 ½ to 6 years’ time, as of the publication of the articles above: a) Nobody will ever forget South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson’s notorious “You Lie” outburst on September 9, 2009 during President Obama’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress, specifically during his statement about immigration reforms. By the way, like Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer, who had earlier narrated a scorning dream about the First Family and later used a series of derogatory remarks and insulting gestures against them broad day, Congressman Joe Wilson also rudely pointed his finger at President Obama in his “You Lie!” outburst. b) Newt Gingrich, a top contender for the Republican Presidential nomination, referred to President Obama as the “Most Successful Food Stamp President in American History.” Apart from this racist point that Newt was trying to make, he didn’t know that more Whites than Blacks received food stamps (34% to 22%). He was also lighting The KuKlux’ Klan’s Cross while making this remark. Remember the KuKlux’ Klan for their racist actions in American History. This same Newt, during the November 2011 Republican debates, mentioned the President by name 7 times, but not once did he EVER refer to him as President Obama [or even Mr. Obama]. Instead, he called him Barack Obama 4 times and just plain Obama 3 times. In fact, not one of the three leading Republican contenders, who collectively mentioned the president 9 times, EVER referred to him as President Obama, Mr. President, or the President. c) Kansas Speaker Mike O’Neal publicly cited a Bible Verse for President Obama to be killed; his wife to be widowed, and his children to be orphaned. The same Mr. O’Neal forwarded an email to State House Republicans referring to the First Lady as Mrs. Yomama. d) Marilyn Davenport, an elected member of the Orange County, California Republican Central Committee, forwarded an email in April of 2010 that included a doctored (modified) photo of the President and his parents as monkeys.

e) Colorado Congressman Dough Lamborn openly said during a radio interview that he didn’t even want to be associated with President Obama. In Lamborn’s word, doing so was like touching a tar baby (i.e. a baby so dirty as being rubbed/polished with black coal tar, asphalt etc.). f) A poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life once showed that 30% of (Liberal or Moderate) Republicans and 34 % of Conservative Republicans believed President Obama was a Muslim. These numbers were expected to double years later. While others think that there’s nothing wrong with being a Muslim; for many, this is just a sign that Mr. Obama is an alien and is therefore threatening. g) Republican Candidate Mitt Romney claims that President Obama hates Capitalism and is not a real American. He said once, and not his first time for that matter, that Mr. Obama has a very strange, and in some respects, strange to the American experience, type of philosophy. Liberals look at Conservatives claiming that President Obama is a Socialist, or that he doesn’t really love America, and thinks “Americans are nuts (silly, foolish etc.). But there’s practically a consensus within the GOP (Grand Old Party, the Republican Party) that these things are true. If a Republican Candidate came out today and said for example, “Barack Obama is a good person who loves his country, but I just think he’s wrong about policies, that candidate would probably be booted out of the Republican Party [right away]. h) Congressional Republicans once turned down President Obama’s requests for meeting at the Whitehouse; refused to return his calls, and walked out of budget negotiations with him. In fact, things got so bad that Speaker John Boehner, on August 31, 2011 became the first Speaker in American History to tell a sitting President that he would not be permitted to deliver a constitutionally approved address to a Joint Session of Congress on a date specifically requested by the Whitehouse. Note: Late 2013, government operations virtually came to a complete halt in the whole of the United States, with huge global economic repercussions as a result of disagreements between Congress and President Obama over the Affordable Health Care Bill, also referred to as Obama Care, proposed by the President. Congress held the American budget for a week or so, nearly bringing the world’s biggest economy down to its knees before compromise deals were reached between both sides to see the Obama Care go through in the end. In fact, President Obama has have to most often veto bills to get them through as a result of these deep disagreements most probably underpinned by racial motivations. But despite all these mountainous obstacles; these great displays of gross disrespects to the presidency in some instances; these disparaging acts of racism and unwarranted personal attacks at this young, Blackman, President Obama has remained incredibly steadfast, composed, focused, and determined to leave behind a lasting legacy for history to judge him by. Among the numerous successes achieved, in terms of programs, projects, and policies etc. designed and implemented by Mr. Obama and his able lieutenants thus far within these 5 to 6 years as of this publication above are as follows: 1. The historic Affordable Healthcare Package for the Americans (the Obama Care) 2. Extended Unemployment Benefits

3. Consumer Financial Protection 4. The Mortgage Refinancing Program 5. The Auto Industry Jobs Rescue Program 6. The Economic Stimulus Program 7. The Equal Pay For Women Program 8. The Stem Cell Research 9. The Student Loan Refinancing Program 10. Two Pro-choice Female Supreme Court Appointees 11. Extermination of America’s most outstanding enemy in all time history (Osama Bin Laden) 12. True to his campaign promise, the controversial Iraq Military Draw Down has been achieved 13. The Hate Crime Initiatives 14. Just in the month of December 2013, the US unemployment rate dropped to a 5 year low of 6.7% when the Obama Administration, in parts of 2013 alone, provided over 74,000 new, permanent jobs. etc. In life, constructive jealousy improves our performance and keeps our heads up high. Despite reportedly being her former “subordinate or junior” schoolmate at Harvard, and being almost a compatriot (remember Mr. John Morlu and others have repeatedly accused Madam Sirleaf of holding and hiding American Citizenship which she has never denied or done so convincingly yet etc.), Ellen can never be like Mr. Obama, nor can she even go closed to the hem of his leadership coat because unlike Obama, whose DNA is embossed with honesty, morality, justice, vision, and hard work etc., history says, Ellen and her Americo-Liberian ancestors’ parts of DNAs are embossed with moral laxity, mental inferiority, promotion of mischief, and criminal orientation. To even prove these claims further; that is, through words and deeds, as an individual and clearly the one that is now in the firing line for her own character and those of her fellow Black American Settlers, Ellen lied that she had no connection with Taylor and his NPFL rebels, it turned out to be true; Ellen has mainly only been doing well at lying, blundering, and plundering etc. For example, Ellen lied that if the Executive Mansion were to broken down or burned by her NPFL rebels, she would rebuild it in three months with her incomparable international NGO contacts, fortunately for her, the Executive Mansion was not broken or burned down by rebels during War Days as she had instructed, but it just experienced a little fire incident at one of its floors at the time when she had finally gotten what she had masterminded the killings of more than 500,000 mainly tribal Liberians for, and at the time when she already now had the country’s resources under her complete control. However in 10 years of all this authority, power and glorious opportunities, she has not been able as yet to just renovate that one floor of the Executive Mansion, but continues to work as an Internally Displaced President from the Foreign Affairs Ministry Building shamefully for all these years of her presidency. Ellen lied that she was going to provide electricity to only Monrovia alone in 6 months of her presidency, she has failed to do so in 10 years, but is dishonorably saying now that she didn’t know how enormous these tasks were. Ellen lied that she was going to fight corruption root and branch, but as we speak, she

now defends a double championship title for the entire world’s Queen of Corruption. Ellen lied that she was going to provide 20, 000 jobs every year, later, when asked about where those job were, she shied away from the question etc. If we decide to list all of her lies or even half of them here, we will be heading for another whole revolutionary pamphlet, not to mention her other criminal acts, which this pamphlet has reasonably treated. Before Ellen came to power, education in Liberia was a mess, it has even now turned more into a mess in line with current world standards; before she held on to the gavel of national authority , the health sector was dying, ten years into her administration, the sector has even deteriorated further; before Madam Sirleaf became President, Liberia, in Sports, especially Football, even used to enter the continental competition (African Cup of Nations, although to go nowhere into the league, but today, Liberia does not even come close to smelling qualifications for the tournament; of the few road rehabilitation projects undertaken by her government thus far, this fake Nobel Laureate herself is on record for describing them as substandard etc. and etc. Fellow citizens, we need no rocket scientist to tell us anymore that the Americo-Liberians are NOT any leadership materials and it’s getting too belated that we (legally) boot these people out of our public sector completely to be able to inaugurate and sustain a new and more cherished national pride under educated, honest, nationalistic and full blooded Kollies, Kolubas, Does, Konnehs, Wleemongars, Nyensuahs etc,, who would be overly concerned about what happens to our fathers, mothers, and fellow suffering citizens way there in Glorgakpa, Winegarbli, Tuzon, Lepula, Lontuo, Tarjuywon etc.; who would be keen on inaugurating once and for all the culture of discipline, honesty, moral rectitude, hard work etc. instead of the current entrenched one of deceit, bigotry, corruption, dishonesty, unimaginable selfishness, and so on; who would be more particular about protecting and making wise use of our little more left precious resources after huge portions have already been wantonly pillaged and given out free to foreigners by people who care less about the future of a country in which their original navel strings were not buried and a country they consider their second home or farm etc.  To all well-meaning citizens (young and old), student groups, intellectuals, civil society organizations, and all alike, the Plain Truth Revolutionaries are urging you to wake up and smell the coffee now, before it gets too late. Young Nick Clegg, Leader of the British Liberal Democratic Party has this to admonish us. Clegg says, “For far too long, the world’s poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their country’s assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.”  To our religious community we urge you to be like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bishop Desmond Tutu etc. to join and play active roles in this sweeping revolutionary debate that no amount of force can now stop in this country God willing. Please ponder upon these wise words as your food for thought, our loving pastors, reverends, imams and evangelists. Mr. Gordon B. Hinckley once said, “You are good, but it is not enough

to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place because of your presence. And the good that is in you must spread to others (not necessarily only those small congregations that you talk to every Saturday or Sunday). Bishop Desmond Tutu closes it up for us here by saying, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice then you have chosen to side with the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot in the tail of a mouse and (you Bishops, Imams and Reverends, etc.) say you are neutral, then that mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.  To our good friends, international partners, embassies, foreign donors and NGOs, we say, there are times that we need to halt our normal operations and do a little rethink or reflection, especially regarding the results of our years of investments. In the case of Liberia, we tell you that there is indeed a big curse here that we must all now stop; identify it, and remove it, before taking any steps forward. That means, we should now break the mode, loving friends. In the words of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.” Again, fellow countrymen, one and all, the need now for a drastic change in our country can never be avoided anymore. This compulsory change, although recognized by both past and current generations, has continuously been postponed because of our fear to slip out of our comfort zone. But we like to let you know here that this direly needed change will never come about if we keep waiting for some other time or some other persons. As President Barack Obama put it, for we are truly the ones that we have been waiting for, and we are those very ones that we have been seeking to effect this change. You are encouraged to find and read all of our interesting revolutionary pamphlets, some of which expose each of the major problems that compel this change, while others provide a roadmap for how this change can be actualized God willing. So please find them, read, and let’s come together to debate the issues, reason them out, and finally transform country into a true paradise and beacon of hope for Africa. Our Facebook page 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), which are at https://is.gd/cO3rbV and https://is.gd/cyZm54 respectively, plus a Google+ Page named plaintruthliberia, also 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 additionally encouraged to Google out any of our key documents or pamphlets by titles as an option. We highly urge you to please share your thoughts with us at plaintruthrevolution@gmail.com, plaintruthrevolution@yahoo.co.uk, or plaintruthrevolution@hotmail.com. You can further share with us any historical documentaries or any other worthwhile articles intended to encourage us, or strengthen our case for this revolution, and any other concerns, using the address above. Note that work can be updated as necessary. Thank you all, and may God bless our original Grain Coast.

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MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Sieh, R. D. (2012, February 13). Debunking Warner: Liberian Petroleum Refining Company Debunks US$13 million Japanese Oil Grant Corruption Claim By Former Board Chairman. FrontPage Africa. Vol.6, No. 112; 8 Wheagar A. (2012, February 13). Negbalee and His LPRC Malice. FrontPage Africa. Vol.6, No. 112; 4 Ghahn, H. W. (2012, February 13). Why I (Negbalee Warner) Resigned As Chairman of LPRC Board of Directors.Vol.6, No. 112; 5 Staff. (2011, July 7). Ellen Dissolves Entire LPRC Board: Jallah, Jackson Ordered to Restitute Thousands. FrontPage Africa. Vol.5, No. 67; 6 Staff. (2011, July 15). Bropleh Arrested, Dragged to Jail for Corruption. National Chronicle. Vol.17, No. 99; 1, 6 Staff. (2012, May 9). President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Runs The Most Corrupt Government in the World. National Chronicle. Vol.18, No. 076; 1, 6 APA News. (2011, April 15). (published 2012, May 9).Liberian Government Admits to US Government Corruption Charge. National Chronicle. Vol.18, No. 076; 5 Staff. (2012, May 9). Letter to Speaker J. Alex Tyler – From Hon. Emmanuel Nuquaye. National Chronicle. Vol.18, No. 076; 7 Staff. (2012, April 26). Oil Contracts – A Vehicle to enrich a privileged few as budget process [gets] undermined. National Chronicle. Vol.18, No. 071; 1, 6 Staff. (2012, April 26). Editorial: The US$3.7 billion future waiver. National Chronicle. Vol.18, No. 071; 3 Thomas, S. A, Prof. (2012, April 26). Speculation: Oil is a Blessing, Not a Curse. National Chronicle. Vol.18, No. 071; 3 Johnson, J. H. (2013, June 24). US$100 million to be corruptly pocketed …... National Chronicle. Vol.19, No. 014; 1, 6 Staff. (2012, May 10). As Propaganda and Lip Service to corruption fight continue, US Government Warns of Brewing Tension in Liberia – Advises US Citizens of risky terrain. National Chronicle. Vol.18, No. 077; 1, 6 Staff. (2013, September 19). PUL Takes the bull by the Horn. National Chronicle. Vol.19, No. 160; 2 Staff. (2012, August 13). No Oil yet. Daily Observer. Vol.14, No. 766; 1, 4 Sieh, R. D. (2012, August 6). Interview: I am not a vindictive person. FrontPage Africa. Vol.6, No. 230; 8, 9, 10 Teah, J. (2012, August 23). Feature: What a Big Shame. National Chronicle. Vol.18, No. 148; 3 Sieh, R. D. (2012, August 6). Sirleaf slams attacks on family character, reveals hurt, frustration: “I stand by my character 100%”. FrontPage Africa. Vol.6, No. 230; 1, 2 Dessie, T. E. (2013, January 28). Witch-Hunt At LPRC- One Dismissed, Others to follow. Microscope. Vol.1, No. 63; 8 Dassin, B. A. (2013, January 30). LPRC Dispels Media Reports. The People. Vol.1, No. 13; 1, 6

Whistleblower. (2013, March 19). Letter to the editor: LPRC Whistleblower Writes President Sirleaf. New Democrat. Vol.20, No. 051; 4 Staff. (2013, April 10). COTOL on LPRC MD’s Back. National Chronicle. Vol.9, No. 47; 1 Staff. (2013, April 16). LPRC Concurs With Whistleblower’s Graft Claims. New Democrat. Vol.20, No. 070; 1, 3 Staff (2013, April 17). LPRC Chief Admits to Conflict of Interest. New Democrat. Vol.20, No. 071; 1, 3 Staff. (2013, April 17). Trends of vicious lies and gossip abhorred. Concord Times. Vol.11, No. 170; 1, 4, 5 McClain, N. (2013, August 27). Dismissed LPRC Employee Opens Up. In Profile Daily Vol.5, No. 196; 1, 14 Staff. (2013, August 28). LPRC Board, Management, Linked to Double Payments, GAC Recommends Punishment. Heritage. Vol.18, No. 199; 1, 10 Staff. (2013, September 2). LPRC Admits Blunder, But GAC Recommends Punitive Actions. Heritage. Vol.18, No. 202; 1, 10 Staff. (2009, September 7). Zakhem Deal Dumps Harry Greaves. Daily Observer. Vol.13, No. 47; 1, 10 Seaklon, T. T. (2009, September 7). Report on Greaves’ Dismissal Out Today. Inquirer. Vol.18, No. 157; 1, 10 Staff. (2012, February 17). LPRC Board Releases Detailed Facts on Allegations. New Democrat. Vol.19, No. 032; 1, 8, 9 Staff. (2012, February 17). Article: Depoliticizing Professional Appointments. New Democrat. Vol.19, No. 032; 5 Staff. (2014, July 9). LACC Confirms Nation Times Report on LPRC Boss. Nation Times. Vol.9, No. 140; 1, 6 Staff. (2012, April 30). A Report By ProPublica – US Foreign Policy Publication: Liberia – Big Oil, Small Country. National Chronicle.

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