23/04/2026
Gbarpolu Country Senator, Amara Konneh writes ✍️
The Legislature’s special session, called by President Boakai, concludes today. Important issues—printing new banknotes and the supplemental budget—got overshadowed by the Yeleh Kolunah debate, leading to questions about whether those were the real concerns or if the focus was on removing Yekeh for his border remarks. Now that he is gone, does that resolve the border crisis with Guinea, and has the Guinean military gone back to its barracks? That question is for the “patriots” who believe they are more patriotic than fellow citizens who disagree with the current government.
Oh, I forgot! “Ehn, the CDC Government did the same thing, too?” “Ehn, they went after their political enemies.” Ah, Liberia! If your political enemies were chosen for you by your party bosses and the government in the name of a “party mandate,” are you really fighting your own war, or theirs? Does blindly following a “party mandate” make you a mindless weapon?
As Winston Churchill reminds us, “A nation that forgets and doesn't learn from its past has no future." How can we forget about how our country got stuck in this perpetual poverty?
