Back to the dark ages

Here we go again.

Imagine the chief justice of Liberia summoning the editors of all the newspapers in the nation to humiliate and threaten them with 30 days jail, if when they refer to him do not do it in a special way according to his instructions. Who does Mr. Johnny Louise think that he is? God?

This is bad enough in this day and age, and what scares me even more is the fact that the same man summoned the editor of the Daily Observer Newspaper to question him on a cartoon that the paper carried on the subject.

It can also be noted that these incidents always take place when the president is out of the country.

Eh my people

Here we go again. The other day, our honorable legislators received a request from the Ministry of Finance to produce receipts and invoices for funds made available to them. The letter comes from the Debt Management and Expenditure division of the ministry and seems to be a routine letter requesting routine things.

What does our honorable assembly do? In this day and age, they are upset because the writer of the letter is a deputy minister. How dare he, who is only a deputy minister, write to us and request invoices from us. "Does he not know who we are?" is written in the undertone of the issue. "We are untouchable and under no one."

Please. The man is doing his job. If you have spent the money without the receipts to show for it, then say so. Do not go about beating your chests like some big gorilla in order to scare him. The only thing that the reaction creates is distrust. Show the receipts!

It does not get any better when you also hear that the supplier of fuel to the assembly has not been paid for 3 months. Of course they will not supply anymore until they get paid.