By: Washington Tumay Watson –onewash9@gmail.com
MONROVIA-Recently, the Liberian Leader George M. Weah came under serious criticism from the public, particularly the opposition community, regarding his assertion that Monrovia is Miami one of his lovely cities in the world.
This is not the first time for President Weah to vision a city in Liberia to be like Miami mostly the Rehab Community, and that of the Red Light community when he spoke to the media few months ago that upon the completion of his government’s developmental projects in those communities within Paynesville City.
Again, speaking recently, in the United States of America to supporters of the Coalition for Democratic Change following his representation at the United Nations General Assembly, President Weah told the jubilant crowd that with the level of development that his government has done over the years, Monrovia is like Miami.
Such assertion by President Weah did not go down well with lot of Liberians mostly those of the opposition and ordinary Liberians who believed that things are not satisfactory under the leadership of President Weah.
Most of those in Liberia took on the social media and criticized President Weah for providing misinformation to the world concerning the transformation of the country’s capital city, Monrovia.
But the former information Minister now Commissioner General of the Liberia Maritime Authority, Eugene Lenn Nagbe speaking on OK FM Thursday, September 29, 2022 indicated that President Weah was not in any way providing misinformation to the public concerning his assertion of comparing Monrovia to Miami.
“Sometimes when people want to criticize they can forget about their education that is the situation we have with some of our opposition friends; they forgot what they learned in 7th and 8th grades about figure of speech about simile and metaphor they have forgotten about all”, he indicated.
Mr. Nagbe said President Weah was specific when he was speaking about the community’s roads that his government has been undertaken that have prevented students from walking in the mud within the various communities.
“So he said that, we have effectively transformed these communities and we have made lot of community’s roads so that Monrovia is Miami, is that not a figurative of the utilization of what he was saying?” Nagbe asserted.
The Former information boss narrated that President Weah in his assertion, did not say all of Monrovia, but those communities that roads are built, are Miami in that aspect.