Claimed Boakai government has turned Liberia into a massacre plantation.
Monrovia, Liberia – Jefferson Tamba Koijee, Secretary-General of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), has expressed that since the Unity Party came back to power in January 2024, Liberia has become a plantation of massacre.
Koijee claims that recent remarks made by Jerolinmek Piah, the Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism, claiming that four auditors perished under the CDC-led administration, are a misrepresentation of the current reality, in which the state security apparatus’s every action results in the death of common people.
Following former President George Weah’s criticism of the current administration for failing to live up to the expectations of the Liberian people, the Unity Party-led government and the opposition CDC have become entangled in a verbal spat. Speaking live on a local radio station, former President Weah said that President Boakai was not the change Liberia was looking for and that his administration would not benefit the people of Liberia.
The statement made by Minister Piah against former President Weah, “Former President Weah should conduct himself properly or we will go after him,” prompted Koijee to respond directly.
The present government argues that civil servants under the CDC-led administration were forced to be beggars, but Koijee pointed out that in reality, civil servants are “slaves” who are robbed of their livelihoods and, in some cases, slain for standing up for their rights under the Boakai administration.
“You said that during the CDC-led government, we made civil servants beggars.” Even if your description of those Liberians was accurate, at least beggars were free and did not end up dead. The ability of motorcycle riders to support their families is being taken away from them today. Killings of regular Liberians are occurring senselessly. Because they only defended their rightful benefits, workers are being killed by state security agents. The government has taken on the role of slave master, treating Liberians like slaves and converting the nation into a plantation where people are slain and mutilated.
Public outrage about state security’s brutal treatment of Liberians has been expressed under the Unity Party-led government. When workers at the Bea Mountain concession area in Kinjor, Grand Cape Mount County, protested for improved working conditions in February of this year, two of them were slain by riot police. A police officer in Rehab, Paynesville, recently shot and killed a 17-year-old teenager during a drug raid.
Motorcyclists said that the police had seized their motorcycles and were hiding behind the government’s “No go zone” prohibition. Marketers and proprietors of unofficial businesses have denounced police abuse, claiming that the cops have beaten them and taken their merchandise that they were selling on the streets. These marketers, most of whom were women, denounced as insensitive the acts of the government, claiming that rather than launching initiatives to better their lot in life, the government is determined to abuse them while they fight to make ends meet and send their kids to school.
The CDC, according to Koijee, would not stand by while political desperadoes terrorized the Liberian people. Koijee expressed that there was a social contract between the Liberian people and the Unity Party. We’ll make sure they follow the terms of the agreement. Anything that is in opposition won’t be accepted.
