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"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:
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> 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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