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"Presidency is about having a TEAM of experts and giving them Vision
and Purpose and they will deliver." DEVINE
Thanks Devine for your wisdom-laden reaction to my posting. Like you
said leadership is about delegating duties. I hope that George Weah
will be good at playing the game when and if he is voted into the
presidency of LIBERIA. I say this because my reading of the AFRICAN
POLITICAL landscape attests to the fact that tribal politics has become
the modus-operandi in almost every African nation.
Let's hope WEAH and his party members will prove me wrong.
PETER VAKUNTA
----- Original Message -----
From: PETER W VAKUNTA <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:37 pm
Subject: Re: POLITICS IN LIBERIA
>
>
>
> "Presidency is about having a TEAM of experts and giving them
> Vision
> and Purpose and they will deliver."
>
> Thanks Devine for wisdom-laden delegating duties. I hope that
> George
> Weah will be good at playing this game when and if he is voted
> into
> the presidency of LIBERIA. I say this because my reading of the
> AFRICAN
> POLITICAL landscape attests to the fact that tribal politics has
> become
> the modus-operandi in almost every African nation.
>
> Let's hope WEAH and his party members will prove me wrong.
>
> PETER VAKUNTA
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Devine Akabutu <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, August 15, 2005 1:50 pm
> Subject: Re: POLITICS IN LIBERIA
>
> > I thought George "Oppong" Weah was still playing for the Liberia
> > National Team after his playing days with AC Millan, Paris St.
> > Jermaine etc. Which tells me he still holds Liberian
> citizenship.
> > At one stage Liberia was playing its "Home Matches" in Ghana and
> I
> > always made sure I went to the Accra Sports Stadium to watch
> him.
> > He was Financier, Coach and Captain. Yes, he paid the Air Fares
> of
> > his colleagues just to come to Accra to play for his/their
> nation.
> > I don't think at the time he had thought of becoming a
> President.
> > Altruism at its very best.
> >
> > Here we are (in the US) with Wrestlers becoming Governors
> > (Minnesota comes to mind). Film Stars are becoming Governors and
> > Presidents (Reagan and Arnold Swartznegar come readily to mind).
> > Presidency is about having a TEAM of experts and giving them
> > Vision and Purpose and they will deliver.
> >
> > Wishing Liberia well.
> >
> >
> > Devine
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > PETER W VAKUNTA <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > ** Please visit our website: http://www.africanassociation.org **
> >
> > After reading this article many questions ran through my mind:
> WHY is
> > Mr Weah being treated with kid gloves? Why has he been given the
> > leeway to stand for election into the liberian presidency when he
> > still harbors his French nationality? Why were five other Liberian
> > party leaders with similar foreign citizenships barred from standing
> > for the vote when WEAH ought to be barred as well?
> >
> > These are not senile questions.The first precept of good Democractic
> > practice is fairness. If some factions of the Liberian populace
> sense> that MR WEEAH is being given an unfair advantage over his
> opponents,> there's going to fire in LIBERIA during and after
> elections. we don't
> > want that! 150 years after independence from America, Liberia should
> > have been serving as a democratic role model. But what do we
> find? the
> > SAMUEL DOE Fiasco, the CHARLES TAYLOR Bloodbath, and so on! When I
> > think of liberia I think of Haiti in the CARIBBEAN: this wretched
> > country got independence from France 1804. But, you go to Haiti
> today!> It is an eyesore: squalor, misery, mental confusion,
> tension between
> > the MULATOS and blacks, etc.
> >
> > Letliberia spare us that one!
> >
> > When all is said and done, I pay hommage to MR WEAH. He and his ilk,
> > the ROGER MILLERS, THE PELES,ETC have done their respective nations
> > proud. But that is not a ticket for them to start playing foul.
> >
> > I know that virtually every African head of state has a second
> > nationality, just in case! Won't you? What with so many
> skeletons in
> > the closet? Nonetheless, I believe that people of WEAH'S calibre
> > should make a difference.
> >
> > What's your take on this my Liberian friends?
> >
> > PETER VAKUNTA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Former footballer George Weah to stand for president of Liberia
> >
> > MARGARET NEIGHBOUR
> >
> >
> > FORMER World footballer of the year George Weah has been cleared to
> > stand for president in Liberia.
> >
> > The National Election Commission rejected complaints from rival
> > parties that Mr Weah should be banned from standing because he had
> > taken French citizenship while playing for Paris Saint Germain in
> > 1993, although five others were barred.
> >
> >
> > The commission will tomorrow publish a list of 22 candidates who
> have> been approved to stand in the presidential and parliamentary
> polls due
> > on 11 October.
> >
> > The elections aim to draw a line under 14 years of a civil war that
> > claimed 250,000 lives.
> >
> > Voters will be asked to choose a successor to Gyude Bryant, the
> > transitional president who took office in October 2003, succeeding
> > Charles Taylor, after Liberia's 14-year civil war.
> >
> > The process is designed to open a new chapter of democracy after
> years> of civil war, a spokesman for the commission said.
> >
> > "Yesterday, those who were accepted were given notice, but tomorrow
> > the list will be published officially," the spokesman said.
> >
> > Mr Weah is the leader of the Congress for Democratic Change
> Party and
> > is regarded as one of the favourites.
> >
> > "I am happy about the decision because those who brought this case
> > against me did not know what they were talking about," Mr Weah said.
> >
> > "But what we need here in Liberia is peace. We at the CDC are very
> > happy with the ruling and we hope that [the commission] will
> continue> their good work."
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