Monrovia, Liberia – After 61 days in office, President Joseph Boakai doesn’t seem to have completed his duty. Appointing important people to important positions is still going on, but it seems like there is a lot of red tape involved, which is embarrassing for the administration.
It is challenging to construct a government, yet one could legitimately contend that a significant portion of the government ought to have been formed prior to its official establishment. The claim is based on the finding that there were more than two months between declaring one’s candidacy and taking the oath of office.
Several of the president’s lieutenants are alleged to have changed their names without permission before the lists were posted on the Executive Mansion’s Facebook page and website. According to additional circumstantial evidence, the Senate Pro-Tempore reviews the list and consults with the President prior to permitting its reading on the floor.
Mr. McDonald T. Wlemus later took the place of some of the nominees on the March 6 list, including D. Emmmanuel Wheinyou. Sen. Karnga-Lawrence, who was a major supporter of President Boakai’s presidential campaign, has reportedly been vocally against Wheinyou’s candidacy, denouncing him as a representative of the Coalition for Democratic Change, the party that was previously in power.
Wheinyou refused to address the issue. Nonetheless, Wheinyou represented the CDC as MC during the campaign operations out of Montserrado County, having worked for the Ministry of Internal Affairs since the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf period.
The Boakai administration was severely embarrassed on Tuesday, March 25, 2024, when two government appontees who had been confirmed by the Liberian senate clashes at their assigned facility, LRRRC. Liberians have begun to question the credibility of the Boakai administration after less than three months in office.
