PHOTO: (L-R ANC SG Toe and ALP leader Ben Urey
By Augustine Octavius, augustineoctavius@gmail.com
The ongoing internal rift within the opposition Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) has taken another twist, with Alexander Cummings’ Alternative National Congress (ANC) digging out the “evil war past” of All Liberian Party (ALP) leader Benoni Urey.
Addressing a news conference in Monrovia on Monday, September 27, 2021, the ANC Secretary General claimed that Urey should not even be sitting at any table to discuss Liberia’s future, because of his evil past, yet he is being allowed to destroy the CPP.
According to him, the Unity Party’s political leader, Ambassador Joseph N. Boakai and Liberty Party’s political leader, Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, both know that Urey lied.
Mr. Urey, who used to be a top executive of the disbanded NPFL rebels during the 14 years Liberian civil war, is one of those recommended for prosecution for economic crimes in the 2010 Truth and Reconciliation Committee report. He was also said to have been one of the former rebel leader, Charles Taylor’s close confident and sometimes one of those procuring logistics for the former rebel NPFL.
As the crisis in the CPP continues, the ANC is blasting Urey, accusing him of being responsible for the confusion and called it a “devilish intention” to circumvent the entire process in his favor of becoming running mate to former Vice President Joseph Boakai.
ANC Secretary General, AttorneyAloysius Toe, challenged Mr. Urey, who is the leader of the All Liberian Party, to show the portion of the CPP Frame Work Document that was altered because he does not have any evidence.
According to him, Mr. Boakai remains content, and appallingly silent, in the face of evil lies against Mr. Cummings, because it benefits him politically to make it appear as a fight between Cummings and Urey.
“But, we are aware and the evidence is irrefutable that this is Ambassador Boakai’s proxy war against Mr. Cummings, being fought by a man with depraved indifference to decency, truth and honesty,” Toe told the press.
But the ALP leader has so far not reacted to the claims made by the ANC.
Atty. Toe pointed out that it is a shame that the plot to ruin the CPP happened under her leadership.
“In furtherance of Urey’s deadly playbook of cut-throat politics, his avowed loudmouth – ALP’s “wayward mercenary” and vocal Talk show host, Henry Costa, best noted for lying, extortion, blackmailing and psychopathic behavior, went on the rampage and accused Alexander Cummings of being a fraud, a cheat, and a criminal who fraudulently altered the CPP Framework Document, without any evidence to authentic his usual diabolical lie.”
“While Costa is spreading his cooked-up lies about Mr. Cummings,” Toe explained, “Costa has never raised his voice to speak about Urey’s known and documented criminal activities and records.”
“Why is Costa insulting Cummings, when he has never ever raised his mouth to Urey?” he asked; saying: “Costa cooked up lies and said the worst and most nasty things about Mr. Cummings.”
“Between Cummings and Urey, as evidenced by their life history and confirmed by records of the United Nations and other international sources, who is best fitted as a fraud, a cheat and an unpardonable criminal?” Toe inquired.
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against his ALP puppet master, Urey. Between Cummings and Urey, who has the international press dubbed as merchant of death?” the ANC Secretary General asked.
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against his ALP puppet master, Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Urey, who has the United Nations accused of being an arms dealer to kill women and children, and is a money launderer?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against his ALP puppet master, Urey”
“Between Cummings and Urey, who greased the monstrous killing machine of Charles Taylor?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against his ALP puppet master, Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Costa’s ALP puppet master Urey, who did Section 9.9 of the TRC Report accused of using inhumane tactics and economic crimes to seize upon the chaos and strife in Liberia to gain power and to amass wealth and prolong and exacerbate the conflict?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Costa’s ALP puppet master Urey, who did the United Nations and United States imposed travel ban and asset freeze on in 2000 for facilitating the arming of rebels from the maritime funds so they could rip pregnant women’s bellies opened?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
Between Cummings and Costa’s ALP puppet master, Urey, whose “wealth” is the fruit of economic crimes for which he is yet to answer?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Costa’s ALP puppet master Urey, who has made this once glorious land of liberty, a bad dream for everybody today?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Costa’s puppet master Urey, who has the international press described “when Liberian’s and the local press provide a platform to him to speak on national issues including governance, it becomes a gross betrayal of justice and accountability for his singular role in the destruction of the same country in the 1990s?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against his ALP puppet master Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Urey, who have the international press described as having no shred of credibility and humanity for which tolerance by the other political leaders to even have him on the table to discuss Liberia’s future, much less speak for the opposition, is considered “misplaced?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against his ALP puppet master Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Urey, who has the international press accused of “selfishly manipulating and undermining the CPP, bad mouthing potentially credible leaders who may emerge as formidable candidates, and use the Council of Patriots and their “Indian Talk Show Host as a tool – bought and paid for?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
Between Cummings and Costa’s ALP puppets master Urey, for who has the international community warned Liberians that the international community will stay shy of individuals like him who has no credibility and is tainted by allegations of economic crimes?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Costa’s ALP puppet master Urey, who remains listed as a Specially Designated National by the United States Treasury Department with his assets frozen and being banned from travelling to the United States?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Costa’s ALP puppet master Urey, who acted upon orders from his former boss to destroy Liberia, using his role as Maritime Commissioner to siphon millions of dollars to off-shore accounts in exchange for weapons used against the innocent people of Liberia?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
“Between Cummings and Costa’s ALP puppet master Urey, who is supposedly the richest man in Liberia with wealth amassed overnight with no recognizable source of his fortune?”
“Yet, Costa never has and never will raise his mouth against Urey.”
“Henry Costa has never raised his mouth against Urey and you know why?”
“Because Urey is the financier of Costa’s propaganda machinery to destroy decent people, while shielding Urey and enabling him to benefit from his criminal behavior.”
“Like Urey, the wayward “Live from Bombay” Indian Talk Show Host did not say how and what was altered in the Framework Document.”
“Costa did not say it, nor will he ever do so, because he too knows that nothing had been altered in the Framework Document.”
In fact, we all recall in 2017 when he similarly blemished the reputation of Ambassador Boakai, calling him “dead man walking” and “a sadistic, unrepentant, unapologetic tribalism”
“ Today he says it was campaign rhetoric and this is not about campaign rhetoric! This is about the lives and hard-earned reputation of decent people.”
“Understandably,” he went on , “Costa and Urey have no decent reputation to protect., you may then wonder why Urey has manufactured these lies and why his wayward mercenary talk show host is trumpeting the lies to destroy Cummings and undermine the CPP.”
According to him, Urey made the false allegations to foster his own selfish political motives and interests; he said: “ this is what Urey knows best and his history and track record speak for itself.”
Attorney Toe indicated that Urey was executing a political ploy in a playbook of lies and deception because his main objective is to tarnish the name of Alexander Cummings, through dubious means, in the hope that it will negatively impact Cumming’s chances of winning the CPP’s standard bearer ship.
The ANC Secretary General maintained that Benoni Urey, his Unity Party beneficiaries and their few Liberty Party collaborators, have one and only one mindset – to frame Cummings in a deadly political witchhunt, regardless of the truth or of the future consequences to the CPP of such thoughtless actions.
Toe added that the ultimate demise of the CPP is what he seeks because if he can’t have it then nobody else will. Urey is threatened by Cummings and doesn’t want Cummings anywhere near the CPP because it gets in the way of his fight to be Vice President to Ambassador Boakai.
According to him, Urey sees Cummings as the major obstruction to his undemocratic means to take state power and so he must destroy Cummings so JNB can lead the CPP.
The ANC claimed that the plan after three years as President, Boakai will retire from the Presidency due to old age or failing health, making Benoni Urey an accidental President of Liberia.
Toe pointed out that an accidental President Urey will then choose and hand-pick a Henry Costa as Vice President because this is the motive of Costa and Urey, and this is their plan for seeking to destroy Cummings.
“As Urey and his family know,” Attorney explained, “the Liberian people would never put him anywhere close to power in his own name, as previously stated by George Weah.”
“In the mind of the Indian Talk Show Host, this absurd fantasy that a President Urey will then choose and hand-pick a Henry Pedro Costa as Vice President who believes he will by then be Senator of Montserrado County”
“This absurd, diabolical naked greed for power is their motive, hence their plan for seeking to destroy Cummings as they see him, as in their way.”
According to Attorney Toe, a Cummings victory, which is now looking increasingly likely, against Boakai in the CPP primary, shatters the Urey/Costa diabolically selfish plan against Liberia.
“Furthermore, Urey and Costa hate Cummings and ANC, and vowed to destroy both through calculated and deliberate falsehoods because they see Cummings as the major threat and obstruction to their undemocratic means to take state power.”
He claimed that the genesis of Urey’s hatred for Cummings is steeped in Cumming’s consistent push back against Urey’s plans to use undemocratic means, through the CPP, to destabilize the Weah’s administration.
Toe noted that now that ANC has provided the copy of the Framework Document filed with the NEC, the lawyers have provided the copy of their final amended framework document, and the National Elections Commission has provided a copy of what it has on file, Urey must be made to show to the public the provision of the framework document that was allegedly altered or he must be made to apologize to the public.
According to him , the ANC made a formal communication to the CPP, through its Chair, Senator Kargar Lawrence, requesting her to make Urey to show the provisions of the Framework Document that were altered; but up to this date she continues to dance around it, presumably playing to the same political playbook to taint Cummings.
The ANC chief scribe called Ambassador Boakai, as an elder in the CPP, must tell the public whether or not Urey’s allegation is true that they did not approve the lawyers’ work.
“Unless Ambassador Boakai publicly comes clean on this,” Attorney Toe went on, “ we hold the belief that it is a conspiracy between Mr. Urey and the former Vice President in trying to use illegal means to avoid defeat at the CPP primary.”
He also called on the lawyers of CPP must speak to the veracity of whether or not the Framework Document filed at the National Elections Commission has any provision altered, removed or added from what they submitted as the final amended Framework Document.
Section 8.5 (2) of the Framework Document on Loss of Membership which states in part that: “a Party withdrawing from the Alliance prior to the next Presidential, legislative and local elections shall not feed candidates in its name”.
According to Attorney Toe, this principally is what this Big Lie is about. This clause does not prohibit any party from leaving the CPP.
“If you want to leave the CPP, leave and form a new alliance and contest but the ANC shall remain in the CPP which was formed to provide an alternative to this roguish government for the benefit of the Liberian people.”
Concluding, Attorney Toe said the ANC will no longer tolerate “these shenanigans.”