Written by Rodney D. Sieh, Rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com; David B. Kolleh, david.kolleh@frontpageafricaonline.com Wade C.L.Williams
Source: Front Page Africa
Monrovia - Two hours after the polling precinct at the C.D.B. King school on Clay Street opened Tuesday, fifty persons had cast their ballots.
With a total number of 200 registered voters at the precinct, turnout here was low as voting in Liberia’s run-off presidential elections got underway.
Many of those standing in line to vote pointed the blame to the violent turn which dampened the mood Monday, killing one person and injuring several others.
Voters ‘coming in drops’
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Liberia riot police walk in a street near the
headquarters of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party in Monrovia.
A man was killed in the Liberian capital
when an opposition rally turned violent on the eve of a run-off vote which
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's challenger
accuses the Nobel winner of rigging. (AFP Photo/Issouf Sanogo)
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MONROVIA,
Liberia (AP) — Africa's first elected female president headed toward easy re-election Tuesday with her sole opponent boycotting Liberia's runoff, and ignoring entreaties from the United States and the U.N. to participate in what observers say is a free and fair vote.
The presidential election is the first being organized by the Liberian government rather than by the United Nations since the end of the country's horrific civil war eight years ago.
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CDC partisans
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By: T. Ralph Tolbert
Five Liberians were reportedly killed and more than 25 injured after violent broke out at the headquarters of the main opposition party--Congress for Democratic Change--on the eve of the Nov. 8 run-off presidential election.
By Alphonso Toweh
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| Winston Tubman |
Winston Tubman said on Friday that he would not take part in
Liberia's planned November 8 presidential run-off vote against President
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, but the election commission said a vote would take place anyway.
The opposition candidate in next week's presidential run-off in Liberia, Winston Tubman, has said he will not take part.
He was due to stand against the incumbent, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who won about 44% of the vote in the first round in October.
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By Edwin G. Genoway, Jr
Source: The New Dawn Liberia
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| Former first-lady of Liberia Madam Nancy Doe |
The former first-lady of Liberia Madam Nancy Doe has called on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Central Bank of Liberia to give her money deposited by her husband Dr. Samuel K. Doe while he was President of the Republic of Liberia.
Madam Nancy Doe said her husband deposited a little over 4million United States Dollars on March 4, 1985 in the National Bank of Liberia now Central Bank of Liberia or CBL.
Agenda Attains Top Secret Documents Proving Nimba Senatorial Winner Bears Double-Nationality.
Source:
African Elections Project (Accra)
The major opposition political party CDC has made it official its position to boycott the run off polls until some demands are met.
In an address to press men in Monrovia on Wednesday, the deputy spokesman of the CDC George Solo on behalf of party officials said that, "we will not engage in the process because the current leadership at NEC is not credible and we are asking NEC not to print ballot papers with our candidates' names'.
In an address that was sealed by the party's Secretary General, Acarous Gray signature, the party said that NEC's chairman Fromayan has been biased, reckless and unruly in his actions and utterances against their membership. They also accused him of being an staunch member of the Unity Party hence skewing results to favour the incumbent President.
They cautioned the national Electoral Commission (NEC) to refrain from printing their standard bearer's name on any ballot paper until investigations are conducted into their claims of election malpractice or their demands are met.
The party, amongst other things, also called for the removal or replacement of commissioners of the National Elections Commission, including Chairman James Fromayan and requested the government to replace the NEC Chair with another credible Liberian or bring in foreign person to conduct the run-off election.
Conspicuously missing at the press conference was the standard bearer of the CDC, Winston Tubman, who some have quoted as saying he was not consulted before a press conference was held.
Despite the boycott of the main opponent in the second round bout, campaign for the November 8, 2011 runoff presidential elections between the governing Unity Party (UP) and its main opponent, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) commenced Tuesday, immediately after the National Elections Commission announced final results of the October 11 polls.
By: Theodore T. Hodge
The saying, “Politics makes strange bed fellows”, is attributed to Charles Dudley Warner, a 19th Century essayist and novelist. But Mr. Warner would be rolling over in his grave now if he were to realize what an understatement that saying has become in contemporary times. Did he ever imagine a freshly named Nobel Prize laureate jumping under the covers with a globally known warlord? That is soon to be the case in Liberia with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former warlord and now Senator Prince Johnson.
Celue Doe, daughter of Late Liberian President Dr. Samuel K. Doe, calls out to Liberian President Madame Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to publically REJECT warlord Prince Johnson’s presidential endorsement.
By Bernard Gbayee Goah
President, Operation We Care for Liberia
Everyone is a genius
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. – A Einstein
Drawing the line in Liberia
Crimes sponsored, committed, or masterminded by handful of individuals cannot be blamed upon an entire nationality. In this case, Liberians! The need for post-war justice is a step toward lasting peace, stability and prosperity for Liberia. Liberia needs a war crimes tribunal or some credible legal forum that is capable of dealing with atrocities perpetrated against defenseless men, women and children during the country's brutal war. Without justice, peace shall remain elusive and investment in Liberia will not produce the intended results. - Bernard Gbayee Goah
Men with unhealthy characters should not champion any noble cause
They pretend to advocate the cause of the people when their deeds in the dark mirror nothing else but EVIL!!
When evil and corrupt men try to champion a cause that is so noble … such cause, how noble it may be, becomes meaningless in the eyes of the people - Bernard Gbayee Goah.
If Liberia must move forward ...
If Liberia must move forward in order to claim its place as a civilized nation amongst world community of nations, come 2017 elections, Liberians must critically review the events of the past with honesty and objectivity. They must make a new commitment to seek lasting solutions. The track records of those who are presenting themselves as candidates for the position of "President of the Republic of Liberia" must be well examined. Liberians must be fair to themselves because results from the 2011 elections will determine the future of Liberia’s unborn generations to come - Bernard Gbayee Goah
What do I think should be done?
The situation in Liberia is Compound Complex and cannot be fixed unless the entire system of government is reinvented.
Liberia needs a workable but uncompromising system that will make the country an asylum free from abuse, and other forms of corruption.
Any attempt to institute the system mentioned above in the absence of rule of law is meaningless, and more detrimental to Liberia as a whole - Bernard Gbayee Goah
Liberia's Natural Resources
Besides land water and few other resources, most of Liberia’s dependable natural resources are not infinite, they are finite and therefore can be depleted.
Liberia’s gold, diamond, and other natural resources will not always be an available source of revenue generation for its people and its government. The need to invent a system in government that focuses on an alternative income generation method cannot be over emphasized at this point - Bernard Gbayee Goah
Liberia needs a proper system
If Liberians refuse to erect a proper system in place that promotes the minimization of corruption and mismanagement of public funds by government institutions, and individuals, there will come a time when the value of the entire country will be seen as a large valueless land suited on the west coast of Africa with some polluted bodies of waters and nothing else. To have no system in place in any country is to have no respect for rule of law. To have no respect for rule of law is to believe in lawlessness. And where there is lawlessness, there is always corruption - Bernard Gbayee Goah
Solving problems in the absence of war talks
As political instability continues to increase in Africa, it has become abundantly clear that military intervention as a primary remedy to peace is not a durable solution. Such intervention only increases insecurity and massive economic hardship. An existing example which could be a valuable lesson for Liberia is Great Britain, and the US war on terror for the purpose of global security. The use of arms whether in peace keeping, occupation, or invasion as a primary means of solving problem has yield only little results. Military intervention by any country as the only solution to problem solving will result into massive military spending, economic hardship, more fear, and animosity as well as increase insecurity. The alternative is learning how to solve problems in the absence of war talks. The objective of such alternative must be to provide real sustainable human security which cannot be achieved through military arm intervention, or aggression. In order to achieve results that will make the peaceful coexistence of all mankind possible, there must be a common ground for the stories of all sides to be heard. I believe there are always three sides to every story: Their side of the story, Our side of the story, and The truth – Bernard Gbayee Goah
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