CDC: Rescue Mission Turns Excuse Mission
Reacts To Pres. Boakai Sona; Tells Him Libeeria Is In Decline
Monrovia-The opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has squarely reacted to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s State of the National Address (SONA) that provided substantial highlights of his administration’s achievements and agenda for the ensuing year as calls for in Article 58 of the Liberian Constitution.
Monrovia-The opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has squarely reacted to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s State of the National Address (SONA) that provided substantial highlights of his administration’s achievements and agenda for the ensuing year as calls for in Article 58 of the Liberian Constitution.
Monday’s SONA which is the President’s 2nd since assuming office was without some disturbing spectacles as in the case of the absence of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Liberia.
Nevertheless, President Boakai candidly executed his national obligation, which the CDC has punctured in segments and considered to be laden with farce, stating that the rescue mission upon which the president came to power is now being turned into excuse mission.
“We choose to speak directly this time to the Liberian people because of the grave instability and uncertainty that now hang over our democracy and economy,” CDC said in its analytical statement issued Tuesday.
The party reminded citizens of Liberia that their nation is in crisis under President Boakai, the state of the nation is weak, divided and polarized.
CDC made reference to the absence from the national event of about eight Senators, more than 25 representatives, and the entire Supreme Court bench as a deeply troubling situation.
CDC, the most recent former ruling party, also reminded Liberians that their country is in decline under President, adding that the “democratic and economic gains we made in the last six years are being eroded.”
“We now see the Unity Party trapped in the very lies they sold the Liberian people to get elected. There is too much confusion and disunity in the land,” it went to say.
CDC said these conditions behooves it not to keep silence as they require what it calls a “spoken response” that expresses the “raw emotions and feelings of our people during these turbulent times.”
It recalled the historic concession of their political leader, former President George Weah, to then President-elect Boakai days before the National Elections Commission (NEC) completed the announcement of election results.
It reminded Liberians that President Weah demonstrated an act of supreme patriotism in conceding to then President-elect Boakai.
CDC says by so doing, Weah “broke ranks with Liberia’s bitter past of contested elections, which were often marred by violence and Supreme Court challenges.”
“He signaled the dawn of a new day in Liberian peace and democracy. Where before others believed that our democracy was weak and fragile, President Weah showed that Liberia too was capable of democratic and electoral strength we see in advanced democracies such as the United States, Britain or Germany,” CDC reflected.
The Party also told Liberians that President Weah handed President Boakai a peaceful country and democracy, a Liberia in which the rule of law was respected, in which no president, legislator, or justice was above the law.
However, CDC has bemoaned the current state of affairs one year after this most peaceful democratic transfer of political power.
It argues that Liberia now lies in a democratic and rule of law mess, adding that the Unity Party administration of President Boakai is now teaching the Liberian people that the rule of law has no meaning or no value.
“That the law is whatever the President and his legislative friends say the law is; that only ordinary common Liberians are supposed to respect and uphold the law while the Unity Party bigshots disregard, disrespect and violate our laws,” CDC noted.
The party statement appears to contradict President proclamation that the country is better under his watch than they met it a year ago.
In a tacit reflection of the leadership crisis at the House of Representatives, CDC wondered if the conflict was necessary, or whether it is necessary to push this crisis to this extent.
“ It has been four months since this conflict erupted and there has been a total breakdown of the rule of law,” CDC said.
CDC accused the UP administration of prolonging a legislative crisis that is destroying our country, instead of focusing on placing volunteer teachers and health workers on the Government payroll; working to increase budgetary allocations to key sectors of our economy, and working to bring down high prices affecting Liberians.
CDC claimed the party came to power by packaging what it calls “a massive bundle of lies and sold those lies to the Liberian people.”
It went on to say that “They lied that harmonization was bad and upon taking office they would have reversed it immediately; that the CDC was the importer of drugs in the Country and they would have solved the drug problems in six months; they said that no car was going to get stuck in the mud in the first 100 days of the Boakai administration; they promised Liberians never to use private jet for presidential travels; they promised to bring down the prices of basic commodities in one year; and of course, they said they were going to bring down the US dollar- Liberian dollar exchange rate down to its lowest.
According to CDC, President Boakai’s famous rescue mission has now been turned into an excuse mission evident by the myriad of false promises it said contained in his state of the nation address.
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