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Original Post Date: 2011-01-01 Time: 05:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF LIBERIA IN THE SEASON OF HOPE FOR PEACE – 2010/2011
BY TOGBA-NAH TIPOTEH, PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT 2011 PRESIDENTIAL AND GENERAL ELECTIONS
My dear people of Liberia,
My wife Fatu and I as well as the rest of the Tipoteh Family extend Season’s Greetings to all of our people of Liberia and our Friend of Liberia, especially the UNMIL family.
Usually, at this time of year, in this Season of Hope for Peace, I speak to the people of Liberia, pointing out our most difficult problems and giving hope for a better Liberia. For this Season, am taking a look at our experiences under the five years of the present government of Liberia. I consider what I have to say to be the truth and nothing but the truth because only the truth can prevent us from repeating the mistakes of the past and rebuild Liberia for the better. When I began providing leadership in truth telling publicly 40 years ago, the government of the day did not appreciate truth telling and continued repeating past mistakes. It is this repetition of past mistakes that led to the Civil War.
From 1926 to 2005, the biggest mistake that the governments of Liberia made was to tell the people of Liberia that their living standards were getting better, meaning that poverty was being reduced because government revenues were rising from the benefits of foreign investment that made the Liberian economy to grow fast. During the 1950s, when the Liberian economy grew fastest in the world, considering Liberia’s population, the poor people of Liberia were getting poorer and poorer.
Since 2006, the present government continues to make the same biggest mistakes made by the past governments. The present government boasts of government revenue increases, high foreign investment moving towards 20 billion United States dollars and increases in the salaries of civil servants from 15 United States dollars to 80 United States dollars. Less than a week ago, the President of Liberia told the people of Liberia that the lives of poor Liberians were better off today than five years ago. To tell poor people that their living standards are better today than five years ago, you must first show how many Liberians were living on less than 1 United States dollar a day five years ago. Then, you must show what each of them could buy with that less than 1 United States dollar a day five years ago. Today, you must show that percentage of people in Liberian living on less than 1 United States dollar a day. Then, you must show whether or not each of the poor people can buy more with the money in hand today than five years ago. We can not believe the President because the President did not show us anything to make us to believe what she was telling the people of Liberia.
The President could have told the people of Liberia for the first time what is inside the Price Commission Report that was presented to her since July 2008 because the Report says something about the high and rising prices that make it impossible for poor people to be better off today than yesterday. The President could have said something about her salary and benefits as well as the salaries and benefits of the top government officials, including those in Public corporations. This information would help us all to understand how poor people are doing when compared with rich people. The President could have said something about Liberia being one of the most corrupt countries in the world, because she said five years ago that the present government has a “zero tolerance” policy on corruption.
The truth of the matter is that the present government is practicing positive tolerance for corruption rather than zero tolerance for corruption. This positive tolerance is seen mainly in the government’s attitude towards the General Auditing Commission, which I consider to be the most important and most productive anti-corruption arm of the government. The negative attitude towards the General Auditing Commission is seen in the personalized, unprofessional and non-substantive handling by the Executive Branch of government of the more than 30 audits performed by the General Auditing Commission, composed of vetted national and international experts. This negative attitude manifests itself also in the intervention of the President of Liberia to defend publicly the Minister of Finance when due process has not been taken its course under the Rule of Law.
It is not possible to reduce poverty effectively when there is positive tolerance for corruption. It takes financial resources to reduce the high and rising costs that poor people bear due to poor sanitation, poor access to health facilities, high food prices, high rents, high transportation rates, high non-fee school expenses and high cost of credit. Corruption takes away government financial resources. In the face of the overwhelming evidence from the Liberian experience that taxes do not bring development, meaning that taxes do not improve the living conditions of poor Liberians sustainably, the present government has now launched a nation-wide campaign under the title 11Taxes Bring Development”. In the Liberian experience since 1926, taxes bring underdevelopment or massive poverty rather than development. This government continues to boast about schools, hospitals, roads, but it fails to remember that the past governments also boasted about schools, hospitals and roads but the living standards of the masses of people became worse and worse. Just like the present government, past governments praised themselves for the international recognition received from governments and royalty, but such recognition does not mean that poor people are becoming better off in Liberia.
It would be most unfair to focus on the present government alone and not comment on the opposition to the government. Most unfortunately, the leadership of most segments of the opposition lacks the moral authority to challenge the government. For example, highly visible elements in the leadership of the Alliance for Peace and Democracy (APD) have received money from the Unity Party, the ruling party and have announced support for the ruling party against the mandate of the majority of the APD membership. In fact, at the level of the National Executive Committee of APD, no decision has been made to support the Unity Party. Other opposition leaders are exposing their bankruptcy in morality and credibility by becoming presidential aspirants to take revenge for not being given government jobs and lucrative contracts.
As we approach the 2011 Presidential and General elections, we must take patriotic actions to prevent the crisis that is now destroying La Cote d’lvoire. Although the Constitutional Court, the Final Court of Appeal, ruled that Mr. Laurent Gbagbo won the elections, the international community, including the United Nations, the European Union, the African Union and ECOWAS, are saying that Mr. Alhassan Ouattara won the Elections. ECOWAS is threatening to remove Mr. Gbagbo by force if he fails to step down from the Presidency. The international community is disregarding the rule of law because of the view that the Head of the Constitutional Court is a long time supporter of Mr. Gbagbo. The relevant question for the international community is why the international community did not raise any contention about the legitimacy of the Head of the Constitutional Court before the elections?
It is essentially against the background of the crisis in La cote d’lvoire that I now call upon the government of Liberia to reconstitute the National Elections Commission before the start of the Voter Registration because the Chairman of the Commission is a longtime well-known supporter of the present President of Liberia, from as far back s the Accra Peace Talks where the Comprehensive Peace Accord was agreed upon in 2003. I call for the reconstitution of the National Elections Commission now because it would be irresponsible and unpatriotic on my part to raise concern about the constitution of the Commission after the 2011 elections, as is being done in La Cote d’lvoire.
Finally, with the poverty-generating system of governance presided over by the present government and the lack of moral authority of leading opposition elements to challenge the ruling party, there is clearly an urgent need for the appearance of a credible leadership with the moral authority to challenge and replace the Unity Party. As my record of 40 years in public service exhibits credibility and moral authority, on March 10th of this year, I offered myself to the poor people of Liberia to be their presidential candidate in the 2011 Presidential and General Elections. Very early in the New Year 2011, I will be speaking once again to the people of Liberia about how unity can be achieved to replace the Unity Party government with a pro-poor government through the 2011 Elections.
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Original date published: 30 December 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201012310786.html?viewall=1